Abstract

ESLAVA, Euclides. POWER, JUSTICE AND PEACE. JOSEPH RATZINGER'S POLITIC THOUGHT. Escritos - Fac. Filos. Let. Univ. Pontif. Bolivar. [online]. 2012, vol.20, n.44, pp.83-119. ISSN 0120-1263.

Joseph Ratzinger's writings are studied in this paper looking for the mutual relation between the politic life and other disciplines; it also proposes different solutions to the current problems. The first section analyses how the Christian proposal assumes that the social and political components are part of the human essence and deals with the way in which Christianity introduced a healthy dualism into the relations between the State and the Church. The second one investigates the reasons that leaded to the rejection of the sacred foundation of History and the State. The third section exposes the divisions that followed the modern turn: secularism, state churches and the different socialisms, which could have been democratic or totalitarian. Furthermore, it studies the transition from the 20th century wars to what Ratzinger calls "The Global Dictatorship". In the final section, it justifies the reasons for which justice and Ethics are the key factor in the search for peace.

Keywords : Ratzinger; Politics; Justice; Peace; Christianity.

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