DIGNITY OF HUMAN PERSON AND CO-RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE COMMON GOOD
Keywords:
God, Human Person, Right Understanding, Human dignity, working together, religious traditions, Christian belief, glory and honour, Gift of his Life, Human Brokenness, Mother Teresa, Multicultural Society, Inclination of the Heart, evaluating moral choices, different beliefs and identities, Closeness in Ethical Convictions, Love and Co-Belonging, Christ Is the Archetype, Loss of the Sense of Being Human, Respect for Life, Nature, and EnvironmentAbstract
By 2020 India will have the biggest working force in the world: young, gifted, dynamic, and energetic. If they will be creative, well-motivated, and forward-looking, there is no limit to what they will be able to achieve for
the nation and contribute to the world. If, on the contrary, they happen to be disoriented, divided, unmotivated, unemployed and unemployable, they will be potential revolutionaries, insurgents, and radicals of every sort. If they will not able to cohere together and agree on basic values in keeping with human dignity, society will be heading for major troubles. We are already beginning to experience some of them. With the rise of new economic possibilities we also notice weakening of accountability and serious damage to the environment.
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