Pauvreté et propriété privée dans l’encyclique rerum novarum

Isabelle Astier () and Annette Disselkamp ()

Cahiers d’économie politique / Papers in Political Economy, 2010, issue 59, 205-224

Abstract: The social encyclical Rerum Novarum closely links the question of poverty with that of property, and invokes Thomas Aquinas. But on closer examination, the reasoning developed in favour of property departs from the scholastic thinker, since it maintains more affinities with the liberal tradition represented by J. Locke. While Aquinas links property to the common good, for Locke property is based on the rights of the individual. A re-reading of the encyclical, in light of its sources, permits greater precision of the nature of this issue, while enriching the current debate about private property and social property.

Keywords: Locke; poverty; property; Rerum novarum; social teaching; Thomas Aquinas (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A13 B11 B12 B31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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