Iustitia: educating for responsible citizenship

Abstract

This lecture analyses how the dimension of Iustitia can be integrated into Jesuit universities. To orient the study, the text is organised into a series of statements and clarifications; among others: the very concept of justice itself is used; the profile of the student to be educated; the emergence of the individual into a new social paradigm; the need to put into motion mechanisms of social imagination and to fill the dimension of “iustitia” with a cordial sense of rightness; the consideration of a temporal dimension and of the inevitable gradualness of political upshots.
Finally, the author underlines five features that should orient its educational application in a Jesuit university centre: the perspective of globalization, participation in international cooperation, formation of leadership, well– developed solidarity, and preferential consideration for the poor.