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  • Chapter 4 - Socioeconomic Disequilibria

  • from Part II - How and Why Agape-Justice Conflicts Arise
  • Albino Barrera, Providence College, Rhode Island
  • Book:
    Compassion-Justice Conflicts and Christian Ethics
    Published online:
    19 October 2023
    Print publication:
    02 November 2023, pp 103-135

  • Summary

    Markets do not arise in a vacuum, nor are they self-sustaining. They are undergirded by foundational institutions. They are sustained by formal and informal rules that are enforced through legal means or public moral suasion (forte of justice). There is a requisite minimum level of trust and mutual solicitude among its participants (forte of agape). Agape and justice complement each other—mutually reinforcing, substituting, or making up for each other’s limitations. Akin to “homeostasis” in biology wherein the human body balances various fluids, cells, and organisms to function properly, there is a delicate equilibrium that must be maintained between agape and justice for a functional socioeconomic life.