Of course, that entire system of thought ignores what really happens in the economy: how value arises, the importance of the entrepreneurial vocation, and the primacy of the individual person who stands de jure as unique and unrepeatable. It begins ...
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Aristotle saw commerce in two ways. One was natural. Natural exchange is akin to bartering for what we need. If I need bananas and you need rice, we trade to meet those needs—the value of the exchange is exhausted by ...
Read MoreThe countless souls trapped in communities where incivility, anger, and violence reign are not often covered by the news. Pursuit of justice does not have to be this way, but this push for racial justice has become what seems to ...
Read MoreAnother word associated with social justice is “the common good.” A wonderful term in itself, its meaning in practice often hinges on a key question, namely, who decides what is the common good. In contemporary times that responsibility gradually ...
Read MoreDr. King saw the need to make a case for the reality of structural injustice that necessitated a response that need not be violent but could be violent. In effect, the Black Power movement responded to the same structural reality ...
Read MoreIf one is not in alignment with that ideological understanding of black life in America and with the goals necessarily resulting from such understanding, it is reasonable to ask what the organization is doing with an otherwise fine proposition. After ...
Read MoreActivity heals; it renews the mind and the eyes so people can see a space of subjectivity and possibility, ever so small initially, but ever so true. The activity opens a path toward authentic human action and has a miraculous ...
Read More“For the sons of this world are shrewder in dealing with their own generation than the sons of the light.” –Luke 16:8 The Civil Rights Movement grew out of a profound spiritual conviction that the men and women of that ...
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