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Fukuyama oor sosiale kapitaal en religie
Koers - Bulletin for Christian Scholarship/Bulletin vir Christelike Wetenskap | Vol 71, No 1 | a236 |
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/koers.v71i1.236
| © 2006 K. Smit
| This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 30 July 2006 | Published: 30 July 2006
Submitted: 30 July 2006 | Published: 30 July 2006
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K. Smit, Emeritus: Universiteit van die Vrystaat, Bloemfontein, South AfricaFull Text:
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Fukuyama on social capital and religion
Francis Fukuyama’s “The great disruption” deals with the deterioration of social capital, the shared values that guarantee the happiness of a community. Social dysfunction data are used to describe the disruption. According to him religion can play a role in the necessary social reconstruction, but his sociologistic interpretation of religion leads to an ambivalent description of it. From a philosophical-ethical perspective the relationship between religion and morality is scrutinised. An alternative view is presented.
Francis Fukuyama’s “The great disruption” deals with the deterioration of social capital, the shared values that guarantee the happiness of a community. Social dysfunction data are used to describe the disruption. According to him religion can play a role in the necessary social reconstruction, but his sociologistic interpretation of religion leads to an ambivalent description of it. From a philosophical-ethical perspective the relationship between religion and morality is scrutinised. An alternative view is presented.
Keywords
Ethics; Morality; Religion; Social Capital; Social Reconstruction; Sociologism
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