Common good and community-based sustainability for Mexico. Contributions from the public university and the Catholic Church
Por:
Jimenez-Martinez, Nancy Merary, Garcia-Barrios, Raul
Publicada:
1 jul 2022
Resumen:
From a critical reflection of sustainability, in which we identify that
its dicourse has been governed by the assumptions of the common good of
progressive neoliberalism, we propose alternatives of ethical and
epistemological interpretation of this concept, that is, we move it
towards a field of reflection and action governed by an alternative
notion of common good. To do so, we make use of three elements:
expanding the human cooperative experience, described by Graeber (2011),
the tradition of MacIntyre's neo-thomist thought and Lukacs' Marxist
social subject. The result is another concept of common good, rich in
elements and determinations, to devise a more just and solidary
productive and social scheme, with appropriate institutions to develop
and achieve sustainability. In which human communities can this be
possible? In mature communities, social bodies capable of envisioning
superior goods, subsuming and coherently subordinating other goods and
ordering them hierarchically and teleologically to guarantee their
production. We exemplify how the public university and the Catholic
Church, human collectives oriented to the transcendent common good, can
build an alternative proposal anchored on a basis of cooperation between
communities.
Filiaciones:
Jimenez-Martinez, Nancy Merary:
Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Ctr Reg Invest Multidisciplinarias CRIM, Mexico City, DF, Mexico
Garcia-Barrios, Raul:
Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Ctr Reg Invest Multidisciplinarias CRIM, Mexico City, DF, Mexico
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