Institutional social engagement

In: Filozofija i društvo, Band 27, Heft 2, S. 429-435

Abstract

I am referring to social engagement as a value-based choice to actively
intervene in social reality in order to modify existing collective identities
and social practices with the goal of realizing the public good. The very
term ?engagement?, necessarily involves the starting awareness of a social
deficit or flaw and presupposes a critical attitude towards social reality.
In this article, I will attempt to provide arguments in favour of the thesis
about the possibility (and, later, necessity) of institutional engagement,
critical action and even institutional protest, basing this view on the
thesis that institutions are fundamentally collective or social agents whose
actions must be guided by ethical and epistemic virtues.