The common good to be found between theoretical coordinates, educational practices and relationship to the other in multi-cultural and vulnerable contexts
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Abstract
The question of the common good involves the interweaving of anthropological-ethical foundations and recall to the practices of life and education. Although is recalled from many parties, it suffers from difficulties of meaning, risking to be not only unworkable but also in contrast with the parameters of a society increasingly marked by differences, inequalities, individualism, styles influenced by materialism and economics. Pedagogical reflection can implement a reconsideration of the common good by recovering the theoretical coordinates to be able to design practices inspired by the good as a human good and of the people, a good with a relational nature. In view of this understanding, the author proposes a reflection composed by the following thematic areas:
- to recover the meaning of the category of common good;
- to trace the main anthropological and ethical coordinates;
- to focus on the other and on differences as the constitutive dimensions of inclusive processes that are now necessary in today’s society, but which are linked to the formation of a personal identity that is constructed as a coexistence of identity and otherness, within the context of citizenship intercultural and in response to conditions of poverty and vulnerability.