A gift is something given freely, it is a relational good, that is, an act that is not owed, where the main good is not the object given but the relationship between the giver and the receiver.
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Luigino Bruni
"Nothing has more value than an act of gratuitousness"
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Greater than Guilt - The Dawn of Midnight - Listening to life - Nacked Questions - A Man named Job - The Midwifes of Egypt
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Narrative Capitals - On the border and beyond - The Voices of the Days - Regenerations - The Great Transition
Economic Soul/4 - The project to create a credible Christian alternative to socialism and liberalism within its own time and absorbing its tensions
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Economic Soul/3 - The lesson of the magisterial document establishing the principle of subsidiarity: accept the challenges of your time without fearing it
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Economic Soul/2 - From neo-Thomism to withstand the impact of the dominant culture to the ideas of Father Liberatore that paved the way for “Rerum novarum”
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Economic soul/1 - From the thinking of Antonio Genovesi in the 18th century, heir to the medieval tradition, to the long eclipse of the 19th century. Until the 20th century
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Today we are going through a new phase of alliance between the capitalist spirit and the warlike and illiberal spirit, which is leaving the democracies of the 20th century behind in favor of...
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Freedom in the gratuitousness of those three wise men who came from the East
Editorials - Christianity is the humanism of waiting, waiting for the unknown, for the One who promised he would return. We cannot afford to live in the memory of “better times.”
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Scholar Joan Taylor takes a historical approach to investigating what we know about Christ's early years and the context in which he lived.
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Agorà - Between the 13th and 15th centuries, economics became a topic of theological debate and reached a wide audience: Luca Ughetti's essay Predicare l'economia (Preaching Economics), Carocci,...
- This Christmas between absence and new longing
- Where have all the young people gone?
- Black Friday: idols and guilt in the shopping cart
- The competence of the poor
- The blessing gaze
- Not just Eros: love is responsible freedom
- The passions and the interests
- Young people, paradise for the elderly
- Blessed are the poor, not the misery
- Let's teach children the logic of giving: Pinocchio is not the model to follow
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The Economy of Giving
Chiara Lubich
«Unlike the consumerist economy, based on a culture of having, the economy of communion is the economy of giving....
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