Technology and Social Justice [antikvár]

FOREWORDIt is a pleasure to us to commend this second symposium sponsored by the International Humánum Foundation. The inimediate inspiration of the Humánum Foundation was the concern expressed for the safeguarding of the dignity and worth of the human person in the modern world which underlies the Pastoral Constitution of the second Vatican Council, commonly known as Gaudium et Spes. Cardinal Bea, the first President of the Vatican Secretariat for Christian Unity, was a leader at the Council and the first Patron of the Foundation, even before it was officially founded, and gave it continued encouragement until his death.The first symposium dealt with the economic sections of Gaudium et Spes. It is appropriate that this second one should deal with the economic teaching of the World Council of Churches from the Geneva Conference of 1966 to the Uppsala Assembly of 1968. Not only was this a very fruitful and intense period of two years in the social thought of the World Council, but it was a time when its thinking and that of the Vatican Council in this field came close together in many respects, and when there was a good deal of informal personal association between the two. It was therefore very appropriate that the Humánum Foundation should have financially supported the one official joint undertaking of the Roman Catholic Church and the World Council of Churches which has so far resulted, since it is concerned precisely with social ethics. We refer to the Joint Committee on Society, Development and Peace. This constructive action by the Foundation is a matter for gratitude.This volume is a further fruit of the work of the Foundation. It is very valuable that an international group of social scientists and theologians from the main confessional traditions should have had the chance of more leisurely assessment of what was done in those two years. Some were closely connected with it, some were not. All have said exactly what they think. Neither the Foundation nor the Roman Catholic Church nor the World Council of Churches is committed