TY - JOUR
AU - Giancarlo Cressotti
AB - Traditionally, one of the most central themes of the social teaching of the Church has been the ethical value of the human person as a creature endowed with an original personality. As a person, man works for a particular purpose, in a pragmatic and rational way, with the ability to decide for himself and to achieve fulfilment. For this reason, work is conceived as an essential element of the person, and needs to be performed in freedom. Our principal source will be the social teaching of John Paul II, and in particular his encyclical Laborem Exercens , since this devotes special attention to the issue of human work. Indeed the focus of this encyclical is human work, that is, the individual who achieves fulfilment in his work. It is man himself who gives his work sense and meaning. By working he fulfils his vocation and his very being. Therefore man’s work is “both a destiny and a calling, but above all, work is for man, not man for work” ( Laborem Exercens , No. 6). In other words, man’s duty is to work, not only in order to produce and possess, but to achieve fulfilment.
TI - WORK AS SUCH ‐ The social teaching of the Church on human work
JF - International Journal of Social Economics
DO - 10.1108/03068299810233259
DA - 1998-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/emerald-publishing/work-as-such-the-social-teaching-of-the-church-on-human-work-IMgyGx71Tb
SP - 1618
EP - 1639
VL - 25
IS - 11/12
DP - DeepDyve
ER -