Wilhelm Dancă

The paper focuses on the crisis which affects the common good in today’s Romania. I fructified my Romanian experience of that “common good” which used to be imposed during communist times. Then, briefly I described the causes of this crisis and I formulated a definition of the common good by resorting to reason and faith. Thus, the common good is the reason for which a society has been constituted. According to the Christian faith the common good reaches its fullness in the eternal life. I advocated the cause of education in the light of an integral common good, insisting upon the necessity of verifying the social force and actuality of certain principles such as freedom, truth, solidarity, justice, peace. Today’s social and cultural context is less favorable to this type of education. It enlists several impediments, such as the religion of the ego, the generational selfishness, the educational urgency. The paper seeks to answer certain challenges: man’s need for mystery, active and participative citizenship, the secularization of social life. In conclusion, I searched for new ways to actively participate in promoting the common good.

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