MAN AS THE PRIMARY WAY FOR THE UNIVERSITY
MAN AS THE PRIMARY WAY FOR THE UNIVERSITY

Summary/Abstract: Since their beginning Universities have played an important, often decisive role in the development of Europe as a cultural community of various peoples and nations. In the present circumstances, ever more troubling, they cannot cease to be responsible for the way Europe exists, and the direction it is going. All those who belong to universitas magistrorum et scholarium have a funda¬mental duty to discern the signs of the present times, to distinguish and sepa¬rate good from bad, and above all to search for truth - the integral truth about man in the perspective of his natural and supernatural dimensions. Thus man is to become the primary way for the university. The modern debate about man is in fact the debate about the essentials of culture which today is often marked by ambivalent and contrasting meanings. Hence, this universal debate must not be neglected by the university. On the contrary, the university should make it its priority in all its educational and scientific activities. Otherwise, it would deny its primary duty and proper identity.

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