Social Pathologies and the Catholic Political Imagination

The article uses early Christian sources to identify three main features of a theological conception of ‘Hell’ (effacement, toxic silence, pointlessness); these three features can be reconstructed in Axel Honneth’s influential writings on Social Pathologies as key characteristics of pathological soc...

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Auteur principal: Sedmak, Clemens 1971- (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Brill 2016
Dans: International journal of public theology
Année: 2016, Volume: 10, Numéro: 4, Pages: 415-442
RelBib Classification:KDB Église catholique romaine
NBE Anthropologie
NCC Éthique sociale
VA Philosophie
ZB Sociologie
Sujets non-standardisés:B social pathologies Catholic Social Teaching Axel Honneth political imagination
Accès en ligne: Volltext (Verlag)
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Résumé:The article uses early Christian sources to identify three main features of a theological conception of ‘Hell’ (effacement, toxic silence, pointlessness); these three features can be reconstructed in Axel Honneth’s influential writings on Social Pathologies as key characteristics of pathological social conditions that undermine the possibility of a good life—Honneth can be understood to distinguish between pathologies of identity (effacement), pathologies of the social (toxic silence), and pathologies of reason (pointlessness). Catholic social teaching (cst) is presented as a response to these pathologies making use of a ‘therapeutic reading’ of cst documents. Catholic social teaching is presented as an exercise in political imagination developing a deep concept of the human person (against effacement and the pathology of identity), an understanding of the permeability between micro structured and macrostructures (against toxic silence and pathologies of the social), and the recognition of a normative order (against pathologies of reason).
ISSN:1569-7320
Contient:In: International journal of public theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15697320-12341459