The added dimension of a liberal political outlook stems from a
sense of human solidarity which comes from the realization that we are all members of a community of shared vulnerabilities.
He stresses the need to create new ways of speaking which will heighten our sense
of human solidarity by increasing our sensitivity to the pain of others and enlarging our sense of «us.»
Does Christ then offer a new order of exchange and sacrifice, or is he simply the
abnegation of human solidarity, a revolutionary outcry that forever interrupts the story of the world but tells no story of its own?
To give water and food, if necessary by tube, to someone in a coma is an
act of human solidarity that binds us together as human beings and recognises the true values without which civilisation must perish.
How can generations of men and women, malformed by the sexual revolution and the cult of «I,» find the
kind of human solidarity without which new found freedom dissolves rapidly into self - canibalizing license?
Messianic humanism keeps the
horizons of human solidarity open, seeking in every situation new possibilities for a greater justice, freedom, and peace.
Within these parameters the dialogue is open to an ever - increasing variety of perspectives and points of view, based on the vast
plurality of human solidarities, of culture, of class, of nation, language, and common experience.
An eloquent left - wing sociologist, Richard Titmuss, had made the case for harnessing human generosity in his book The Gift Relationship, which used blood banks as an
example of human solidarity in action.
(2) Although the first point above accentuates the individualist tendency in Christianity, Christian teaching falls heavily on the
side of human solidarity.
The mother of our friend will continue her
path of human solidarity, continuing to see Esteban grow and evolve in his studies by corresponding with each other.
Rorty contends that the belief that «the springs of private fulfillment and
of human solidarity are the same» is a bothersome Platonic or Christian hangover.