Ethics/Morality

The authors deal with environmental issues from two points of view: the first is a relflexion on the importance of our personal behavior for the environment, and finishes with some ethical considerations. The second part gives a biblical and theological view of the environmental issue.

En el breu període que va de 2000 a 2003, gairebé la totalitat deles grans companyies farmacèutiques van passar pels tribunalsdels EEUU, acusades de pràctiques fraudulentes. Quines són aquestes actuacions? Qui en rep les conseqüències?Què mou a les companyies farmacèutiques a actuar així? Quinesrespostes s'estan produint davant d'aquests abusos i quines cal quees produeixin encara? En aquest Quadern estudiarem les estratègiesactuals d'aquesta indústria i l'impacte directe que aquestesestratègies tenen en la manera com concebem la salut i la malaltiai en els recursos que tenim per promocionar l'una i prevenir o guarirl'altra.

Aquest quadern és una reflexió sobre les identitats socials i col·lectives. Es parteix d'una anàlisi del nostre món dividit, tot veient l'arrel de les fractures socials, i proposant, com a possible solució, la recuperació de les formes comunitàries. El capítol central indica com han de ser en el segle XXI les comunitats que poden donar identitat als individus. Finalment, es fa una breu reflexió sobre què pot aportar el cristianisme al debat per crear una societat més comunitarista. 

Immigration is one of the main challenges faced by western societies. Spain faces the issue of creating a new society in which immigrants can be made to feel as though they belong. Jaume Flaquer's intention in this study, is to open up a new perspective on the subject, where the immigrant is not seen as a danger, or as an economic opportunity, but rather as an example of a 'free' or 'liberated' person, whose life can be understood as a search or journey of hope towards an uncertain future. 

How is it possible that for centuries the right to private property has been considered a natural and sacred right to which all other human rights are subordinate, and on which all others depend, however fundamental they might be? This booklet seeks to explain the tortuous ideological construct which lies behind the “naturalization” and “sacralization” of the bourgeois right to private property

We are undoubtedly living in a time of crisis, a time when it is fitting to ask what type of society and what type of world we want to build. A time when, once and for all, we are called to possess the clarity of mind needed to know how to identify the emerging possibilities that we may find in our present reality. Crises are, to a certain extent, a wake-up call demanding that we change direction and build a world on new foundations. This booklet describes which are these foundations and the role that Religions may play in the setting up of a New Word Order.

Death is a subject that raises so many questions. A first question would be: where "are" those loved ones that death has snatched away from us? A second question: where will we "be" when the same happens to us? These are questions with complex answers that leave us with a sense of uncertainty and anxiety. This booklet seeks to reflect on the quest or search that these questions have brought about within the context of Christian theology.

Today, it is both a practical and tacit form of nihilism that exists,which is neither formulated nor expressed, yet which acts as a latentframework for a few specific lifestyles which certain thinkers havedescribed as the "culture of oblivion", the "era of emptiness","liquid modernity"... With this in mind, it only seems to put forwardthe claim for a form of justice that involves the recovery of memoryand a new sense of happiness."