Aportes de Tomás de Aquino para la Construcción del Bien Común Económico del Siglo XXI

Abstract

The author of this study, echoing the vitoriana "relectio" of the sixteenth century, attempts to "re-read" Thomas Aquinas in contemporary context, discovering in it a theoretical arsenal capable to discern "the signs of the times", manifest in the preponderance of the interests of private property and legal translation in the institutions of private autonomy and the consequent autonomy -potenciadas by philosophers of modernity, that bypass the requirements of subordinating Common Good. The title summarizes the problem and proposed a solution: "It is the will of the line you want some particular good, unless it relates to the Common Good, as to" (S.T., I-II, 19, 10). The author begins by explaining the privileged relationship between private property and private autonomy, which separates the private interests of common interests, evident in the current economic model centered on the free market, with all its possible consequences of social and ecological damage. With Thomas Aquinas, the author continues to emphasize the centrality of the common good, in which context the property and its autonomy as services distributive justice, aimed at ensuring two social functions appear: "procures" (= manage and care) and "will dispense" (= to distribute to other members of society). In order that such an approach be inserted in our time, the author uses (as Aquinas was worth at the time) the possible dialogue of this with an "invisible college" of authors from different perspective, but with thematic approaches and / or valuation, with whom converge, welcoming the articulator Thomism Pope Francisco in Laudato si' in the assertion that the contemporary economic model needs redirection according to the demands of the common Good of Humanity, an approach to correct the directions of the commons politicians of every nation, which means that all forms of ownership are limited by the natural fundamental principle that all assets of the planet belong to all human beings, without discarding other living beings.