Communion - The Vocabulary of Good Social Life/20 by Luigino Bruni  published in Avvenire on February 9, 2014 We are all suffering from serious shortages of communion. We are actually risking getting used to its absence, and so stopping to long for it. Communion is formed within...

Community - The Vocabulary of Good Social Life/18 by Luigino Bruni  published in Avvenire on January 26, 2014 Community, one of the richest fundamental and ambivalent words in our civil vocabulary is undergoing radical change. The community has always been a reality that is...

Justice - The Vocabulary of Good Social Life/2 by Luigino Bruni  published in Avvenire on August 18, 2013 There is a strong contrast between the deep sense of justice that we  all - even the wicked - have deep inside, and the world that appears to us as a display of widespr...

Economics - The Vocabulary of Good Social Life/15 by Luigino Bruni  published in Avvenire on January 5, 2014 “...(T)he crisis have given many and such denials of what appear strictly to be scientific estimates, advanced by economists. It is no wonder that any layman could believe to be authorized t...

Charismas - The Vocabulary of Good Social Life/13 by Luigino Bruni  published in Avvenire on December 22, 2013  The moral and civil shortcomings of our times are also the result of the expulsion of the charismas from public life, the charismas that all too quietly accepted their...

Market - The Vocabulary of Good Social Life/11 by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on December 8, 2013 In the undersoil of our civil and economic culture there are two opposing tendencies growing. The first is the gradual rapprochement between culture and the languages of the capitalist market a...

Cooperation - The Vocabulary of Good Social Life/9 by Luigino Bruni  Published in Avvenire on November 24, 2013 Communities flourish when they are capable of cooperation. Had we not started to co-operate (work together), community life would never have started, and we would have stayed stuck a...