The
Five Principles
Global
Justice
There is a Source of all creation which has endowed the
absolute values of Truth, Love, Justice and Goodness which
represent the ultimate ends of human actions. Many people
call this Source, God.
All people are raised and live in total interdependence
in a sequence of time and as such are entitled to:
• have warmth, clean air, medicine, clean
water, food and housing
• be respected, equal, free
and able to choose their own destiny
•
fulfil their full emotional, intellectual and spiritual
potential
• have implemented the five
Justices:– Monetary
Justice,
Social Justice, Economic
Justice, Environmental
Justice and Peace Justice. |
Respect
The Earth
As a trustee of a delicate biosphere whose carrying capacity
we have a duty of care to sustain, every person must respect
the rest of creation and take responsibility for preserving
the environment including the fauna and flora all of which
are interdependent and share a divine origin with humanity.
Abundance
Is Possible
The rights of the individual include the rights of liberty,
secure incomes, access to productive property through
an expansion of capital ownership and trusteeship, access
to the commons, free markets, and the secret ballot, while
the responsibilities of the individual include a continual
concern for the rights and interests of others.
Creative
Work For All
There is a hierarchy of human work: The lowest but most
urgent form of work is for sheer personal survival. The
highest form of work is improving the social order including
relationships with others and doing work the soul must
have.
Economic
Democracy
True political democracy can only be built on the foundation
of true economic democracy. It is the duty of democratic
government to secure the results the people want from
the management of their public affairs as far as such
results are physically possible and morally right.
Whatever is physically possible
is financially possible through appropriate democratic
and just transformations of society’s economic institutions.
