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A Study on Social Cooperatives from the Perspective of Christian Ethics

Jong won, Lee 1

1계명대학교

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ABSTRACT

This research studies on the social cooperative which is the alternative economic order of neoliberalism from a perspective of Christian ethics. First, this study delves into the publicness and the pursuit of social value of social cooperatives based on social economy and social capital. Exploring the advantage and limits of social cooperatives, it seeks the solution of it’s limits. The social cooperatives is an economical organization to preserve coexistence and the value of life. The social cooperatives is based on altruism because its purpose is to serve public interest. The social cooperatives exist to provide social services such as the care of elderly and disabled people, and the integration of unemployed people into the workforce. The value of social cooperatives is related to the value of Christianity as such that providing protection and care for the poor and weak in the society is a basic obligation of loving and just community. Therefore, social cooperatives is an effective method that realizes the economy of care, providing strength to the weak based on the spirit of reciprocity of trust. Also, it is a solution to various problems of low growth and unemployment, poverty and polarization of our society. Hence, the church must be an advance base of social cooperatives as a community of enthusiasm, commitment and altruism for the others.

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