Zasady nauki społecznej Kościoła i wartości podstawowe jako normy moralne życia społecznego. Refleksja na kanwie współczesnych dokumentów społecznych Kościoła

Abstract

The study seeks to present the principles of the social doctrine of the Church and basic values as the norms of social life in the light of the recent documents of the social teaching of the Church. The research, however, deliberately skips the discussion of the most important principles and basic values of social life from the point of view of their contents. Rather, they assume the form of a scientific metareflection whose purpose is to show the nature, ontological basis, and validity of those principles and values. Social principles, especially those fundamental or ontological, contribute to the integration of particular subjects of social life. They are also a criterion on the basis of which one normatively adjudicates any particular related problems. They constitute the grounds for evaluation of situations, structures and social systems; thereby the Church fulfils its propheticcritical function towards social life. The principle of the dignity of the human person is of particular importance among them, it is the basic, ordering, and most general value and norm of the social order.