ovdje - Hrvatsko filozofsko društvo

užitak, dok se sve drugo ne prihvaća i odbacuje. Time se razvio individualizam
s prohtjevima slobode bez odgovornosti te stvaranjem i promicanjem
utilitarističkog morala. Glavna oznaka takvog morala jest, zapravo, moralni
relativizam ili zadovoljavanje vlastitih potreba i zaborav općeg dobra.
Tako se stvorio duh sebičnosti ne samo kod pojedinaca, već i kod obitelji,
naroda i država.
U Katoličkoj se crkvi stoga i počelo govoriti o strukturama grijeha i
o kulturi subjektivizma kao o glavnom mjerilu i kriteriju istine, a u djelovanju
je započelo naglašavanje solidarnosti što ju je Ivan Pavao II. htio
globalizirati i učiniti principom djelovanja Katoličke crkve.
No, sadašnja Crkva kreće novim smjerom i uvodi novi princip djelovanja:
opredjeljenje za siromašne, ali bez moći, bez politike i bez velikih
riječi. Ona se okreće djelovanju za siromašne i preko siromašnih, najprije
naviještajući im oslobođenje preko Krista Osloboditelja, a potom i konkretnim
zauzimanjem i djelovanjem za siromašne stvarajući novi poredak
i civilizaciju ljubavi.
THE CHURCH AND THE CHALLENGES OF NEOLIBERALISM
The new democratic society has created an unfair distribution of resources
in the world due to the type of economic-social structure that developed
in such fashion that it increases differences between the rich and
the poor, through its neoliberal dogmas, reducing role of state and public
spending, market liberalisation, as well as complete privatisation of economic,
financial, and social mechanisms. It is a frightening fact that the
enormous monetary crisis, called the recession, has first occurred in the
developed countries and then in the rest of the world, the crisis which is
still far from over.
The neoliberal society is completely secularised, in its foundation lies
an atheist anthropological presupposition with all its consequences even in
economy. The modern world has developed a civilisation of utility, not a
civilisation of love. At the root of this civilisation are economic efficiency,
beauty, and physical pleasure, while everything else is rejected. This resulted
in individualism with the demands for freedom without responsibility,
and creating and promoting a utilitarian morality. The main characteristic
of this kind of morality is, in fact, moral relativism, or satisfying one’s
own needs together with the oblivion of the commons. Thus has emerged
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