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\ntakes on an even broader range of meanings: the correlation between its
\nmultiple elements requires<\/span> a commitment to foster the interaction of the
\ndifferent levels of human knowledge in order to promote the authentic
\ndevelopment of peoples. Often it is thought that development, or the
\nsocio-economic measures that go with it, merely require to be implemented
\nthrough joint action. This joint action, however, needs to be given direction<\/span>,
\nbecause “all social action involves a doctrine<\/span><\/b>“. In view of the complexity of
\nthe issues, it is obvious that the various disciplines have to work together
\nthrough an orderly interdisciplinary exchange<\/i>. Charity does not exclude
\nknowledge, but rather requires, promotes, and animates it from within.
\nKnowledge is never purely the work of the intellect<\/span>. It can certainly be
\nreduced to calculation and experiment, but if it aspires to be wisdom capable
\nof directing man in the light of his first beginnings and his final ends, it
\nmust be “seasoned” with the “salt” of charity. Deeds without knowledge are
\nblind<\/span>, and knowledge without love is sterile. Indeed, “the individual who is animated
\nby true charity labours skilfully to discover the causes of misery, to find the
\nmeans to combat it, to overcome it resolutely.” Faced with the phenomena that
\nlie before us, charity in truth requires first of all that we know and
\nunderstand, acknowledging and respecting the specific competence of every level
\nof knowledge. Charity is not an added extra, like an appendix to work already
\nconcluded in each of the various disciplines: it engages them in dialogue from
\nthe very beginning. The demands of love do not contradict those of reason.
\nHuman knowledge is insufficient and the conclusions of science cannot indicate
\nby themselves the path towards integral human development. There is always a
\nneed to push further ahead: this is what is required by charity in truth<\/b><\/span>. Going
\nbeyond, however, never<\/span> means prescinding from the conclusions of reason, nor
\ncontradicting its results<\/i>. Intelligence and love are not in separate
\ncompartments: love is rich in intelligence and intelligence is full of love.<\/p>\n
\nmeans that moral evaluation and scientific research must go hand in hand, and
\nthat charity must animate them in a harmonious interdisciplinary whole<\/span>, marked
\nby unity and distinction. The Church’s social doctrine, which has “an important
\ninterdisciplinary dimension”, can exercise, in this perspective, a function of
\nextraordinary effectiveness. It allows faith, theology, metaphysics and science
\nto come together in a collaborative effort in the service of humanity. It is
\nhere above all that the Church’s social doctrine displays its dimension of
\nwisdom. Paul VI had seen clearly that among the causes of underdevelopment
\nthere is a lack of wisdom and reflection, a lack of thinking capable of
\nformulating a guiding synthesis for which “a clear vision of all economic, social,
\ncultural and spiritual aspects” is required<\/i>. The excessive segmentation of
\nknowledge, the rejection of metaphysics by the human sciences, the difficulties
\nencountered by dialogue between science and theology are damaging not only to
\nthe development of knowledge, but also to the development of peoples, because
\nthese things make it harder to see the integral good of man in its various
\ndimensions. The “broadening [of] our concept of reason and its application” is
\nindispensable if we are to succeed in adequately weighing all the elements
\ninvolved in the question of development and in the solution of socio-economic
\nproblems<\/b>.<\/p>\n