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9 - Toward an Ethic of “Civic and Political Love” in the Workplace

from Part III - Catholic Social Thought at Work and Play

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2019

Frank Pasquale
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University of Maryland
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In Laudato Si, Pope Francis situates the present climate crisis within a web of accelerating technological and economic changes that he terms “rapidification.” Because rapidification carries serious risks of ecological and social crisis, Laudato Si calls us to rethink the criteria that guide our economic and political decisionmaking. In place of the deified market and an efficiency-driven, technocratic regulatory framework, Pope Francis proposes acts of “civic and political love” to guide a culture of care and contribute to an “integral ecology” that prioritizes the value of labor and the dignity of human work. This chapter identifies the workplace as a crucial site for developing an ethic of civic and political love because work is both a vital aspect of caring for our common home and a way to develop meaningful relationships with others and the world. The chapter describes some of the effects of rapidification in the workplace and seeks to demonstrate how gestures of mutual care and the principles of solidarity and subsidiarity can repair the damage caused by rapidification, restore the value of labor and the dignity of workers, and contribute to human flourishing.
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Care for the World
Laudato Si' and Catholic Social Thought in an Era of Climate Crisis
, pp. 167 - 182
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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