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• Title: From Leo Xiii's Rerum Novarum to John Paul Ii's Centesimus Annus (Saturday Morning Keynote Address) (Critical Essay)
• Author : Journal of Markets & Morality
• Release Date : January 22, 2002
• Genre: Business & Personal Finance,Books,Religion & Spirituality,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 264 KB

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Comparing the social encyclicals by popes in the first century after the publication of Rerum Novarum, one can notice an evolution not only in their attitude toward the real political-economic situation but also in their postulated social solutions. It seems that an analysis of the contents of the encyclicals gives one the right to propose the statement that the general view of political-economic life is rather similar and quite comparable to the model of democratic capitalism in the first encyclicals. However, the later period witnessed gradual but consistent change of this stance. At first, the encyclicals published in this period barely perceptibly remove themselves from, and then act with obvious distance toward the social solutions of democratic capitalism. This tendency is brought to a halt and partly turned around in the first two social encyclicals of John Paul II. Looking through particular encyclicals at the role that the State should play in social life, one can perceive crucial shifts in accents. As might be expected, all the popes have shared an opposition to more extreme liberal concepts of the nation and recognition of its key role in social life. However, the very manner, as well as the scope of acting foreseen for the State, differ according to various encyclicals in a crucial way. In the beginning, there was a Scholastic vision of the State as the societas perfectae responsible for the realization of the common good of all its citizens. In this vision--shared by both Leo XIII and Pius XI--the State should not only react in cases of trespass upon that good but should also actively support its construction by focusing particular attention on the poorest social classes (the accent is less on direct aid and more on creating conditions for a better future).

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