At the beginning of Chapter Five of CiV, «The Cooperation of the Human Family», Pope Benedict analyses the cause of this breakdown as the rejection of the God - centred,
relational nature of man:
Not exact matches
Thus, the social sciences, like the natural sciences, show that
man's
nature and nurture in their
relational as in their universal aspects, must be conceived with due regard for the inextricable interdependence
of physical, mental, and spiritual factors.
The assumption that women are not really related to other women, the absence
of understanding
men in relationship to women, the refusal to acknowledge the homo -
relational basis
of heteroreality, the ignorance
of connectedness with
nature all attest to the
relational naivete
of hetero - reality in comparison with a worldview based upon internal relations.
It addresses the question
of whether, as some observers have suggested, women are simply more sensitive to such exclusion: if they are «
relational by
nature» and respond more strongly than
men to being shut out
of social interaction in the workplace.