Solidarity as Relational Selfhood

Solidarity should be understood not as performative allyship or discrete acts of empathy, but as an acknowledgement that individual selves are constituted through ongoing relations of recognition. Framing solidarity this way reframes policy and civic debate: it privileges institutions and practices that sustain mutual recognition over symbolic gestures or marketable moral postures. — If adopted, this theological-philosophical framing would shift public arguments about identity and justice from spectacle and virtue signalling to structural questions about how institutions recognize and sustain persons.