[MD] Social Level- Catholic Social Teaching

[Joseph Maurer]

On Sunday 27 July 2008 11:21 Am Steve Hannon writes to all:

Hi all,
 
I thought it would be interesting to take a look at how one group of people
(Catholics) look at social level values.  Is there any parallel to social
values we usually discuss?  What are the overarching intellectual
values/ideals driving these social teachings?
 
Hi Steve and all,

Welcome! After I left the monastery I spent the year 1965 working at the
Catholic Worker house of hospitality on Chrystie St. in New York.  The
Catholic Worker movement was founded by Peter Maurin and Dorothy Day in the
1930¹s. based on the ideals of anarchist Christianity of the early Church.
The radical pacifism of Ghandi was used to promote resistance to the
military draft. Peter Maurin was French. I never met him.  Mrs. Day was a
convert.  Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky were a couple of her favorite authors.
Ammon Henacy, an imprisoned draft resister to WWI, also sometimes wrote for
the paper. 

IMO the source of social level values is the value of proprietary-awareness,
consciousness, personal responsibility, very MOQ compatible.  Consciousness
evolves to the intellectual level.

Joe



On 7/27/08 11:21 AM, "Stephen Hannon" <stevehannon at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I thought it would be interesting to take a look at how one group of
> people (Catholics) look at social level values.  Is there any parallel
> to social values we usually discuss?  What are the overarching
> intellectual values/ideals driving these social teachings?