We see human beings as persons, as beings before God, called to transcend, and who are part of a community within which and from which they can reach fulfilment while making a responsible use of their freedom. This freedom is at the service of a general order manifested as beauty, good and truth in the particular reality they conform together with their fellow men and women.
We believe that development is legitimate only when it is at the service of personal growth, for which reason it must be sustained by an ethical attitude aimed at personal transcendency and it must manifest itself in the whole community taken as a balanced unit.
Our training programs aim at encouraging the contemplation of beauty, the discovery of personal good and an open attitude towards truth, always trying to educate our students for a life of virtue.
We assert the primacy of the Creator over the creatures, of the spirit over the matter, of being over acting, of natural order over cultural order, of ethics over pragmatism, of politics over economy, of personal dignity over utilitarianism and of brotherly service over progress theories.
We commit ourselves to practise in our working teams that which we intend to teach our students, and to cultivate at all times a friendly environment that will encourage everyone to share with the rest the best of themselves.
We see equality as an attribute that we have as humans before our Creator who has conceived each being as a unique person; therefore we assert that the synergy of personal contributions becomes legitimate only through common good understood as that which makes each person a better person.
All human activities imply and are a manifestation of what we think of man, of God, of the meaning of existence, of history, briefly, of what our cosmo-vision is. Freedom is possible as long as men may have the possibility of making the choices that will help them become what they are called to be. The answer to the question what a man is becomes explicit in its truth as long as it contains when it is made the clearest possible outline of what it means to become a full human being. Western tradition has given the name of virtue to the highest possibility of being and in the case of man’s being the classical doctrine has been formulated considering the seven virtues which follow and which are the foundation of the anthropological conception that inspires our project.
1º A man, in so far as he puts into effect what is understood as such, is that one who, after listening to the word of God, opens himself to it by faith, as long as he can effectively perceive it.
2º A man will be honorable and upright only when he stretches out, through hope to a state of wholeness he cannot reach during his present corporeal existence.
3ºA man who ambitions perfection for his life is that one who, through love (charity), participates in the infinite assertive power of the Creator and with all his vital forces considers as good and worthy his own existence, and that of God and of the world.
4ºA man can be upright and honourable only when his outlook upon reality is not blurred by the yes and no of his own will and when, on the contrary, his decisions and actions depend on what is real such as it appears before his eyes. A man is wise by the mere fact of wanting to act according to the truth.
5ºA good man is, above all, a fair man which means he sees himself as a man among other men. He practises the art of living with others making sure that each one receives what is owed to him or her.
6º The wise and fair man knows that in order to make good effective in this world, it is necessary that he brings himself into play and he is ready for it thanks to his strength to bear inconveniencies and sorrows for the love of truth and justice.
7ºTemperance is one of the virtues that describe a whole man and it is the one virtue that prevents him from self-destruction through the sheer practise of pleasure.
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