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LAUDATO SI’ AND JUSTICE - AN ATTEMPT AT DRAFTING A SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL DISTRIBUTION OF GOODS

Summary/Abstract: From a variety of topics and approaches that are offered in discussing Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato si’ the author selects the concept of justice, which the Roman Pontiff frequently uses. Moreover, in response to the question ‘why every environmental approach must include a social perspective?’ Pope Francis concludes that the environmental issues and poverty as a clear example of unjust structures are strikingly connected. In order to shed as much light on this relationship, the author of the article immerses in the fundamentals of philosophical discourse about justice by pointing out its two fundamental aspects: justice in general on one side and justice in the narrow sense on the other. When discussing the inner attitude of developing harmonious relationships towards ourselves, others, nature, and finally God, then Pope Francis, according to the author, has in mind precisely justice in the general sense, which he explains in detail in a separate section of the article. Regarding the second characteristic of justice, the author, indicating (again) the philosophical-social tradition, shows that it is realized through two well-known principles: commutative and distributive. The latter distributive principle of justice is very well known (especially in contemporary political and social theories) and it concerns – as the title suggests – the distribution of goods. Pope Francis directly mentions this aspect, underlying that one of the causes of environmental issues lies in the unjust distribution of goods, which the author of the article analyzes in great detail by correlating it with some modern theories.

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