Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The main assumptions of the political thought of Christian democracy were in accordance with the guidelines of the encyclicals. They were also based on the achievements of the European Christian-democratic trend. Among the most important assumptions and claims of Christian-democratic political thought are: (1) basing the organization of social life on the principles of Catholic ethics; (2) recognising the primacy of supernatural goals over temporal ones; (3) respect for the human personality and its rights; (4) ensuring a proper balance between power and civil liberty and the rights of the individual and society; (5) guaranteeing a parliamentary-democratic system; (6) respect for private property and labour; (7) social solidarity; (8) enfranchisement of workers; (9) anti-revolutionism and anti-socialism; (10) a corporate state system.
Source: Studia i Analizy Nauk o Polityce
Author: Marcin Wichmanowski
Institution: Maria Curie-Skłodowska University
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4411733653