Joseph Cardinal Höffner CHRISTIAN SOCIAL ... - Ordo Socialis

d) Leisure and the Worship of God and the Preparation of the Future...................................78
Chapter two: Working and Professional Conditions in Industrial
Society and Christian Ethics ................................................................................ 80
§ 1 Characteristic Features of the Modem Working and Professional World ........ 80
1. Work and Profession as self-evident Activity...........................................................................80
2.Tensions and Conflicts in the Modern Working and Industrial World......................................80
a) The wage system...................................................................................................................80
b) Technicalizing and rationalizing work.................................................................................81
c) The basic power structure of the business enterprise ..........................................................82
§ 2 Conclusions from the Viewpoint of Christian Work and Professional Ethics . 82
1. The Compatibility of the Wage Contract with the Christian Image of Man.............................82
2. Mechanization, Rationalization, Automation and the Christian Image of Man........................83
3. Basic Power Structures and Personal Management ..................................................................85
a) Human dignity as the guideline for personnel management................................................86
b ) Personnel management and authority ................................................................................87
c) The Social Function of the Entrepreneur .............................................................................88
4. Job Security...............................................................................................................................88
5. Foreign workers.........................................................................................................................90
6. The Total Human Integration of the Worker ............................................................................90
SECTION THREE: THE ECONOMY.............................................................. 91
Chapter one: The Material Objective of the Economy ..................................... 92
§ 1 Determining the Material Objective of the Economy....................................... 92
l. The Sovereign Position of Man with Respect to the World of Material Goods. .......................92
2. Man’s Dependence on Material Goods.....................................................................................93
3. Scarcity and the Need to be Economical...................................................................................93
4. Collaboration and Division of Labor. .......................................................................................94
§ 2 Consequences for the Material Objective of the Economy............................... 94
Chapter two: The Order of the Economy........................................................... 95
§ 1 The Economic Order According to the Ideas of Liberalism............................. 95
l. The economic Liberalism (Paleoliberalism) ..............................................................................95
a) There is a ‘natural’ order of the economy. ..........................................................................95
b) The ‘natural’ order of the economy is discernible by our reason........................................96
c) The basic principle of the natural economic order is the individualistic idea of freedom...96
d) The natural motive force in the economy is self-interest. ....................................................96
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