Review article
With the dialogue to universal brotherhood and some obstacles according to the encyclical Fratelli tutti
Zorica Maros
orcid.org/0000-0003-4908-2900
; University of Sarajevo - Catholic Theological Faculty, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Abstract
This paper is divided into three parts. The first part is a concise presentation of certain elements of the encyclical Fratelli tutti, which address the causes that impede the development of universal brotherhood, the theological basis of which is the fact that all people are children of one Father. These elements speak of individualism, relativism, consumerism, in fact they speak of a loss of social feeling, a kind of alienation of man from his own humanity. As the mentioned causes are in themselves very complex realities, the second part of the article, along with the expanded literature, additionally analyzes and explains them, to the extent that this is possible in one article. The contemporary tendency to absolutize individual freedom, along with all the accompanying phenomena, actually leads to the emptying of what is essentially human, which greatly affects the healthy functioning of the interpersonal community: this is why the Pope advocates a permanent effort of dialogue, in the service of achieving the common good and community among people. The third part briefly considers whether the dream of universal fraternity and a society of common good is a pious idea, an ideal, or utopian, concluding that it is an ideal: but it is an ideal that humanity must not abandon, because to do so would mean abandoning an essential part of what it means to be human.
Keywords
individualism; relativism; freedom; values; universal brotherhood; dialogue
Hrčak ID:
292528
URI
Publication date:
30.1.2023.
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