RT Article
T1 St. Thomas Aquinas on the Goodness and Right to Work Today
JF The Downside review
VO 136
IS 4
SP 193
OP 210
A1 Rugani, Marc Vincent
LA English
PB Sage
YR 2018
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1664958010
AB By situating the human laborer in his proper context as imago Dei, defining what constitutes properly human labor, and recognizing the proper ends of that labor, St. Thomas Aquinas provides clarity on how contemporary scholars and policymakers can establish a fundamental right to work. By also attending to Thomas' account of distributive justice and the role of the sovereign to account for that justice, contemporary leaders in the public and private sectors might understand the priority of full employment in national economies. Such revision can lead not only to a more proximate attainment of the temporal human flourishing in the common good, but can also create the social context for a 'spirituality of work', highlighted in the conclusion of John Paul II's Laborem Exercens, as a means whereby the active life and the contemplative life can coincide and direct men and women evermore to their end in the vision of God.
K1 Aquinas
K1 Laborem Exercens
K1 United Nations
K1 Human Rights
K1 Labor
DO 10.1177/0012580618822475