Humanity
Solidarity
Quick ideas about solidarity. What is solidarity? Examples and ways of practicing it.
Español1. What is solidarity?
Solidarity is the firm disposition to seek the good of others, especially the common good. It is linked to charity, because it looks beyond private interest and takes responsibility for other people.
2. Is solidarity only a feeling?
No. There can be a feeling of solidarity, but the virtue is deeper: a stable decision to help, serve, collaborate, and avoid indifference toward the needs of others.
3. Where can solidarity be practiced?
In the family, at work, in social life, between rich and poor, between nations, and in ordinary daily service. It is practiced by sharing goods, time, knowledge, affection, and responsibility.
4. What is opposed to solidarity?
Selfishness, exploitation, class hatred, racism, nationalism understood as contempt for others, and any indifference toward the good of people who are not part of one's own group.
5. Does solidarity require justice?
Yes. Solidarity does not replace justice; it completes it with charity. A person cannot claim to be solidary while failing in duties toward workers, family, neighbors, or the poor.
6. How is solidarity learned?
By serving, noticing the needs of others, cooperating in common tasks, giving thanks, sharing what one has, and avoiding a narrow life centered only on one's own comfort.
7. Why is solidarity important?
Because human beings are not isolated. We receive much from others and we also owe much to others. Solidarity makes society more human and helps charity become visible.