Theology, Ethics and Society: reflections on the well-living from the philosophical-theological anthropology of Paul Ricoeur

Contemporaneity is a propitious time to discuss the distinction between the just and the good. It is understood that this distinction is directly linked to the intrinsic relations of the secular state, often indifferent to caring for social justice, the consequences of which take lives, sometimes in a veiled way, sometimes unveiled, thus contradicting the theology of creation. This is entirely soteriological and can never be satisfied with the state of human decay. It is in the nature of democratic societies to relate various conceptions linked to the ethics of well-being, circumscribed to good and good, within a single society. This relationship, often at an invisible intersection, is linked to the Christian need to claim a just situation for all. It is argued that each should pursue his own good, his own sense of good, cultivating the understanding that the condition for this is the good of the collectivity. Naturally, different communities have different conceptions of good and good, but they must live together in the same society, and therein lies the problem: how to achieve well-being by guaranteeing justice for all? We ask ourselves: what, in the words of Paul Ricoeur, is "well-being" after all? Linked to this question comes the question of their ways, namely: what are the paths to the genuine realization of well-being? It is hypothetically understood that good living is achieved when the human being is well with himself, with others and acting, civilly, in the just institutions for the dignified life in community.