2014_04_28_ICS_En el marco de la globalización es importante crear ámbitos comunitarios para no perder la aportación singular de cada persona a la sociedad
"In the globalization framework it is important to create community environments"
The full professor Urbano Ferrer affirmed that in the ICS of the Universidad de Navarra that every citizen can contribute to improve society "accepting his private and public responsibilities"
"In the globalization framework it is important to create community environments so as not to lose the contribution that each person makes to society" commented Urbano Ferrer, full professor of the Universidad de Murcia, in the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) of the Universidad de Navarra, where he gave a seminar organized by the project ‘Natural Law and Practical Rationality'.
Professor Ferrer said that in order for the communities to grow and become stronger, the individuals must make the collective projects their own projects. "Love for the community begins with the environment in which one lives, the family, and then continues on into the surroundings, in the professional life", he explained.
With regard to the problems of corruption that negatively affect in society, he pointed out that "moral ethics always have a personal subject and consequently, people should assume their private and public responsibilities. We can all do something so that the situation improves, setting an example and cooperating in that which is within our hands".
"Ethics –he continued saying- is the horizon of the good of our acts and allows us to establish strong ties with other persons. This is an environment of expression and freedom of the person. The freedom of each person makes it possible to promote freedom and liberties of others because it wakes up a free response in the other person".
Among the challenges of ethics in the contemporary world, professor Ferrer mentioned the scientific advances, of which he said there is no reason for them to be contrary to ethics as long as they respect all human beings and in particular, human life from its conception until birth. "Without a transcendent perspective it is harder to see it because this indicates that man has not given life to himself", he indicated.
Likewise, he emphasized that the limits of "testing possibilities that do not respect people's rights" are not only related to technical sciences but are also related to other fields. "For example, study curriculum should not be tried out to see how it will work. Students should be treated as persons who want to learn and who demand obligations of the person who is teaching them".