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This essay offers an ethical evaluation of the emerging mode of commons-based peer production, and its associated governance and property regimes, in order to see how it stacks up as an implicit or explicit expression of a number of ethical values. In particular, we examine whether the peer-to-peer logic represents an opportunity for a more complete realization of the aims of the social doctrine of the Catholic Church, which shares the vision of the centrality of civil society, with the market and the state function having a service orientation towards civil society. We conclude that there is a correspondence between the two value systems.
The following essay is a reworking of an earlier presentation: Pursuing the Common Good: How Solidarity and Subsidiarity Can Work Together Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, Acta 14, Vatican City 2008 www.pass.va/content/dam/scienzesociali/pdf/acta14/acta14-bauwens.pdf
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Nota Bene: For extensive documentation on the emergence of peer to peer formats throughout the social field, see https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net
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Bauwens, M. (2018). Par Cum Pari: Notes on the Horizontality of Peer-to-Peer Relationships in the Context of the Verticality of a Hierarchy of Values. In: Giorgino, V., Walsh, Z. (eds) Co-Designing Economies in Transition. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66592-4_5
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