The
Five Principles
Global
Justice
There is a Source of all creation which has endowed
the absolute values of Truth, Love, Justice and Goodness
which represent the ultimate ends of human actions.
Many people call this Source, God.
All people are raised and live in total interdependence
in a sequence of time and as such are entitled to:
• have warmth, clean air, medicine, clean
water, food and housing
• be respected, equal, free and able to
choose their own destiny
• fulfil their full emotional, intellectual
and spiritual potential
• have implemented the five Justices:–
Monetary
Justice,
Social Justice, Economic
Justice, Environmental
Justice and Peace Justice. |
Respect
The Earth
As a trustee of a delicate biosphere whose carrying
capacity we have a duty of care to sustain, every person
must respect the rest of creation and take responsibility
for preserving the environment including the fauna and
flora all of which are interdependent and share a divine
origin with humanity.
Abundance
Is Possible
The rights of the individual include the rights of liberty,
secure incomes, access to productive property through
an expansion of capital ownership and trusteeship, access
to the commons, free markets, and the secret ballot,
while the responsibilities of the individual include
a continual concern for the rights and interests of
others.
Creative
Work For All
There is a hierarchy of human work: The lowest but most
urgent form of work is for sheer personal survival.
The highest form of work is improving the social order
including relationships with others and doing work the
soul must have.
Economic
Democracy
True political democracy can only be built on the foundation
of true economic democracy. It is the duty of democratic
government to secure the results the people want from
the management of their public affairs as far as such
results are physically possible and morally right.
Whatever is physically possible
is financially possible through appropriate democratic
and just transformations of society’s economic
institutions.