logo consists of a regular pentagon joined in the circle, symbolizing the power of man in wanting to attain the ideal of good, just and good that is entered for the natural law in every heart. The circle that contains the pentagon that perfection is unattainable with only the forces and human capacity, a perfection of which it is sensed by the existence of secular non-believers and intuition turns into certainty for lay believers who have met Faith in the Christian God.
But both are imperfect and fallible in their secular condition, "well, but tend to do evil." So the Pentagon, regular geometric shape and strange, symbolically sums up the perimeter, so the space within which this tension in the human quest for perfection of the circle unfolds. Awareness is the effort to go further in these five sides entered the circle, despite all the good will of man, will never make a pentagon in a circle. The Pentagon will be a geometric figure beautiful, elegant, attractive and fascinating in its facets but ultimately unfinished compared to the fullness of the creche. The educational process and through the Circle San Bernardino (CSB) is to develop, it is to regain his strength and motivation to begin a journey to explore the reality Within the perimeter of an imaginary pentagon, with the knowledge and the humility that depends on the perfection of the Pentagon and is still low and share of a perfection that is wider than the rim. This game
geometric figurative logo, summarizing the material and spiritual nature of man and the indivisible limit. The San Bernardino
Circle in full awareness of his inadequacy and his imperfections, he wants to set the scene for this relationship between geometric figures, and lost but not forgotten: rediscovery of known and revived, not as an intellectual or religious point of view ( would never be equal) but from a pragmatic basis and referred from the facts that the political and economic past, present and future offers us. This will also clearly identified and defined the area or the area contained the five sides of the pentagon, later on as the club moves: political and economic. In his geometric figurative logo, summarizing the material and spiritual nature of man and the indivisible limit. The San Bernardino
desired space limitation, as a small part of the whole and not intended to be exhaustive, the club is focused on achieving its educational goal through the spreading of the wealth of thought and experience grew in the Christian-liberal connubbio that accompanies model and knead for centuries to live our personal and communal.
2. The name of the Club
In search of a "patron" he had an affair with the aspirations of the Club and the logic of point 1, in the presence of many great people (religious and secular) which over the centuries in one way or another have built and defended the traditional Christian-liberal the difficult choice fell on San Bernardino of Siena (1380-1444). Here are some summary reasons, and forcibly caricatures, which are the basis of this choice.
The period in which he lived was San Bernardino in some ways very similar to ours, this was the end of the Middle Ages, but not yet defined at the beginning of the period after "modern." The problems of political, economic, moral, were intrinsically linked to each other while the air already smelled of momentous changes and challenges that since the fifteenth century and were then by following them to come quickly.
So with all due prudence and weights was a very similar to ours, a period of general (global for the time then) and thus called into question many certainties and sketches of possible partial solutions.
The person in San Bernardino was what we today would call a star from a media and opinion leaders of unquestioned value and charisma, suffice it to say that churches were not large enough to hold true or not, who came to hear his now famous Sermons to the point that he had to keep on market squares.
was and remains a character extraordinary, fascinating and ingenious. Sent all the charm of Franciscan poverty from which he embraced and knew how to go out and witness the unlimited freedom that following that position generates the man. His genius was, however, that his freedom to live "in the world" not out of touch with the awareness that not everyone could have the grace of this experience, being able to intelligently translate century preaching the beauty of this tension, however, crossing it with a pragmatic the concrete problems of his time, showing that in their own role was to act accordingly. For example
was the first author to write a paper focusing on a subject more that existing "contracts and wear." The text now call the economy was the first to be "single-subject", but until then, many principles, ideas and discoveries of economic laws were introduced and remained scattered in the development of other topics. By convention we can say that if the thinkers' political and economic "that preceded (and in particular the education authority) had opened the field of reflection in a sparse but illuminating on these matters, he was the first to keep them in a joint new way to describe and experiment with reality. Exaggerating a bit 'late to the school after him will follow this path in part and thinkers so-called 'economic centuries later does not come off from considering the economic and political matters are worthy of study and reflection together.
Another reason is that San Bernardino of Siena is the patron saint of Monte Carasso, governing the establishment of the formal association of this club.
To conclude and to make the idea, from which one can glimpse the connection between the club and the name chosen, it borrows a presentation in San Bernardino appeared on the site of Lord Acton Institute:
"And the devil said that the possession of goods belonging to others is a worse sin of 'murder, since it is the sin that sends more than any other people to 'hell. "
San Bernardino da Siena, the" Apostle' d 'Italy', was a missionary and a reformer, economist educational guidance. He was born in the town of Massa Marittima in Tuscany, from a noble family. After providing assistance to the sick during the great plague broke out in Siena in 1400, he entered the 'Order of the Franciscans. In his wandering on foot through the whole' Italy, became a very popular and well known preacher. During his ministry he was offered to become bishop three times, which he refused because he had to abandon what he felt was his main vocation, that of a missionary.
Bernardino was more than what everyone else was able to order in a school system the economy after Thomas Aquinas ', and after the first theologian of Pietro Giovanni Olivi to write an entire opera on' economy. This book entitled On the contracts and wear, addressed the justification of private property, the ethics of trade, the determination of the value and price and the issue of usury. His greatest contribution to the economy was represented by the broader analysis and defense of 'entrepreneur ever written at that time. He pointed out that trade, like all other occupations, could be practiced in both legal and illegal manner, all professions provide the occasion for sin. In addition, merchants provide many useful services: transporting the goods from regions in which they are found in abundance in regions with scarce, preserving and storing goods that are available to consumers whenever they need it, and, as artisans or industrialists transforming raw materials into manufactured products.
Bernardino said that the 'entrepreneur is endowed by God with a precise and unique combination of gifts that enable him to carry out these tasks very useful. He identified four rare combination in this specific entrepreneurial skills: efficiency, accountability, hard work, risk taking. Very few people have these four virtues. For this reason Bernardino argued that the 'entrepreneur rightly earn him enough to stay on the market and be rewarded for his effort. All these gains are the reward for his labor, expenses, and the risks they ran.
Sources:
Economic Thought Before Adam Smith by Murray N.
Rothbard (Edward Elgar, 1995), Christians for Freedom by Alejandro A. Chafuen (Ignatius, 1986), and The Lives of the Saints by S. Baring-Gould (John Grant, 1914).
3. The references and characters that define the perimeter
To complete the descriptive picture is worth remembering, in the likeness of the Pentagon, the five sides that define it, and this at different levels of investigation.
should be borne in mind that you are moving on the surface of the default policy and the economy as a test of 'positive intersection between Christianity and liberalism in space and time. This dimension, of necessity, can not give a comprehensive response to the countless variety of events that produces the reality, but despite being a partial approach, that it is still helpful for the Christian-liberal dimension that characterized the West in these areas should be: stored and disseminated, defended, promoted and used.
The perimeter so it's not insurmountable, but rather a restriction intended to place greater to focus on the relationship between reality and its boundaries of thought, tradition and culture.
If the events of reality and human action are then placed in the center of the figure described in paragraph 1; analysis and dealing, it is necessary that the 5 boundaries of the Pentagon can "import" inspirations, suggestions, methods, pensiero and possible solutions and then making the Christian liberal trasitare and meeting space called (political-economy).
Apparently the 5 sides of the perimeter change depending on the location from which you want to see the world. We need a method of forcing not to miss, since the matter is vast in time, space and content. The activities of the Club moves within the following "scope": 3.1 Boundary values, characterized by:
Personalism
Individual freedom Individual responsibility
Subsidiarity Solidarity
3.2 Perimeter century, characterized by:
Power Politics Economics
Wealth
Salvation
3.3Perimetro doctrinal / cultural features:
Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church: Rome symbolically
Tardoscolastica:
Salamanca School "Austrian" economics: Vienna
Enlightenment / Anglo-Saxon liberalism / American: Edinburgh / Philadelphia
Federalism Helvetic : Grütli
3.4
business unit, characterized by: a heritage
Store
Defending objective values \u200b\u200bare not negotiable
Translating the tradition to the present and future
declined to promote new ideas and experiences
compete in the formation of ideas and opinions
4. Requirements for supervision of the work of the Circle
Having defined the statute, the reasons, characteristics, scope and methodology governing the work of the Circle San Bernardino, you just have to give some references to the basic aspect that binds all: the liberal-Christian thought.
Apparently Christianity is not liberalism and liberalism is not Christianity. Although many scholars attempt to put them in total antithesis, while others attempt to prove it with equal force similar to what we are concerned the aim of the club is just that instead of highlighting the many possible points of contact and the points already in common Christianity and Liberalism. The points that unite are numerous, useful for the enhancement of the singularity of the human person and promote the common good that is pursuing liberal Christianity.
to penetrate properly into this "discovery" and to recognize the appeal, it is useful to recall some great quotes from scholars around the theme:
"I am convinced that if the fracture
between true liberalism and religious beliefs will not be remedied,
there will be no hope for the rebirth of liberal forces. "
F. von Hayek, April 1, 1947, the Mont Pelerin Society constitutive relationship
" When religion is destroyed a people, doubt takes hold of the most high intelligence and almost paralyzes all the others. This state of things wear out the soul and prepares citizens to slavery. In my opinion, I doubt that man can never stand at once a complete religious independence and entire political freedom and are led to believe that if he does not have faith, you have to serve and, if it is free you must believe that " .
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, ed. BUR 2003
"Those who, like us, sees the market economy a necessary condition for a society worthy of man, free, profitable and cut to man, has also voiced their opinions to the necessary mechanisms, attributes, and reasons this market economy: profit, own interests, the long list of freedoms, competition, ownership, the role of entrepreneurs, capital income, speculation and so on. We can not accept this. I honestly can not say yes to a market economy and say no to all the conditions and orders necessary, and I stress the word necessary. "
Wilhelm Röpke, The Gospel is not a socialist, and Rubbettino - Facco 2006
"The precepts of living together can not be dropped from above. Men must use their wits to impose order on chaos, intelligence is not understood in the scientific sense as the ability to solve problems, but understood in more complex as the ability to find and keep the agreement among his fellow. (...) The individual freedom can not be boundless, and also the same forces that make some necessary restrictions, if left free to operate can compress the sphere of human freedom far beyond what is sustainable. "
James Buchanan, The limits of freedom, ed. Rusconi 1998
"The reasons for which I think are exactly the same as those for which you do not believe"
Gilbert Chesterton, Orthodoxy, 1908, 1995 and Morcelliana
5. Bibliography
initial work of the Club can not help but refer to some basic texts. Among the many to list, give up to make an exhaustive list because depending on how you build on the work will be carefully identified the texts and authors that will do better reference to the investigation taking into account the perimeters of reference which the Club has given . However, at least some authors and their works are the cardinal points for the orientation of the work Club:
- Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church
- Christopher Dawson, Christianity and the formation of Western civilization
- Alejandro A. Chafuen, Christians for Freedom, Catholic roots economy dimercato
- Rodney Stark, Victory of Reason, as Christianity has resulted in freedom, progress and wealth
- Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
- Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy
in America - Friedrich A. Hayek, Law, Legislation and Liberty, The Road to Serfdom
- Wilhelm Röpke, Civitas Humana, liberal humanism, The Gospel is not a socialist
- Dario Antiseri, to defend the Christian market
- Flavio Felice, Capitalism and Christianity
- James Buchanan, The limits of freedom, the calculation of the consensus
- Michael Novak, The Catholic ethic and the spirit of capitalism
- Ludwig von Mises, The omnipotent state
- Joseph A. Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
- Milton Friedman, Free to Choose, Capitalism and Freedom
- Frederic Bastiat, What you see, what you do not see
- Antonio Rosmini, liberal personalities
- Gilbert K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
- Henry Delubac, the drama of atheistic humanism
- Sergio Rico, the end of the economy
2. The name of the Club
In search of a "patron" he had an affair with the aspirations of the Club and the logic of point 1, in the presence of many great people (religious and secular) which over the centuries in one way or another have built and defended the traditional Christian-liberal the difficult choice fell on San Bernardino of Siena (1380-1444). Here are some summary reasons, and forcibly caricatures, which are the basis of this choice.
The period in which he lived was San Bernardino in some ways very similar to ours, this was the end of the Middle Ages, but not yet defined at the beginning of the period after "modern." The problems of political, economic, moral, were intrinsically linked to each other while the air already smelled of momentous changes and challenges that since the fifteenth century and were then by following them to come quickly.
So with all due prudence and weights was a very similar to ours, a period of general (global for the time then) and thus called into question many certainties and sketches of possible partial solutions.
The person in San Bernardino was what we today would call a star from a media and opinion leaders of unquestioned value and charisma, suffice it to say that churches were not large enough to hold true or not, who came to hear his now famous Sermons to the point that he had to keep on market squares.
was and remains a character extraordinary, fascinating and ingenious. Sent all the charm of Franciscan poverty from which he embraced and knew how to go out and witness the unlimited freedom that following that position generates the man. His genius was, however, that his freedom to live "in the world" not out of touch with the awareness that not everyone could have the grace of this experience, being able to intelligently translate century preaching the beauty of this tension, however, crossing it with a pragmatic the concrete problems of his time, showing that in their own role was to act accordingly. For example
was the first author to write a paper focusing on a subject more that existing "contracts and wear." The text now call the economy was the first to be "single-subject", but until then, many principles, ideas and discoveries of economic laws were introduced and remained scattered in the development of other topics. By convention we can say that if the thinkers' political and economic "that preceded (and in particular the education authority) had opened the field of reflection in a sparse but illuminating on these matters, he was the first to keep them in a joint new way to describe and experiment with reality. Exaggerating a bit 'late to the school after him will follow this path in part and thinkers so-called 'economic centuries later does not come off from considering the economic and political matters are worthy of study and reflection together.
Another reason is that San Bernardino of Siena is the patron saint of Monte Carasso, governing the establishment of the formal association of this club.
To conclude and to make the idea, from which one can glimpse the connection between the club and the name chosen, it borrows a presentation in San Bernardino appeared on the site of Lord Acton Institute:
"And the devil said that the possession of goods belonging to others is a worse sin of 'murder, since it is the sin that sends more than any other people to 'hell. "
San Bernardino da Siena, the" Apostle' d 'Italy', was a missionary and a reformer, economist educational guidance. He was born in the town of Massa Marittima in Tuscany, from a noble family. After providing assistance to the sick during the great plague broke out in Siena in 1400, he entered the 'Order of the Franciscans. In his wandering on foot through the whole' Italy, became a very popular and well known preacher. During his ministry he was offered to become bishop three times, which he refused because he had to abandon what he felt was his main vocation, that of a missionary.
Bernardino was more than what everyone else was able to order in a school system the economy after Thomas Aquinas ', and after the first theologian of Pietro Giovanni Olivi to write an entire opera on' economy. This book entitled On the contracts and wear, addressed the justification of private property, the ethics of trade, the determination of the value and price and the issue of usury. His greatest contribution to the economy was represented by the broader analysis and defense of 'entrepreneur ever written at that time. He pointed out that trade, like all other occupations, could be practiced in both legal and illegal manner, all professions provide the occasion for sin. In addition, merchants provide many useful services: transporting the goods from regions in which they are found in abundance in regions with scarce, preserving and storing goods that are available to consumers whenever they need it, and, as artisans or industrialists transforming raw materials into manufactured products.
Bernardino said that the 'entrepreneur is endowed by God with a precise and unique combination of gifts that enable him to carry out these tasks very useful. He identified four rare combination in this specific entrepreneurial skills: efficiency, accountability, hard work, risk taking. Very few people have these four virtues. For this reason Bernardino argued that the 'entrepreneur rightly earn him enough to stay on the market and be rewarded for his effort. All these gains are the reward for his labor, expenses, and the risks they ran.
Sources:
Economic Thought Before Adam Smith by Murray N.
Rothbard (Edward Elgar, 1995), Christians for Freedom by Alejandro A. Chafuen (Ignatius, 1986), and The Lives of the Saints by S. Baring-Gould (John Grant, 1914).
3. The references and characters that define the perimeter
To complete the descriptive picture is worth remembering, in the likeness of the Pentagon, the five sides that define it, and this at different levels of investigation.
should be borne in mind that you are moving on the surface of the default policy and the economy as a test of 'positive intersection between Christianity and liberalism in space and time. This dimension, of necessity, can not give a comprehensive response to the countless variety of events that produces the reality, but despite being a partial approach, that it is still helpful for the Christian-liberal dimension that characterized the West in these areas should be: stored and disseminated, defended, promoted and used.
The perimeter so it's not insurmountable, but rather a restriction intended to place greater to focus on the relationship between reality and its boundaries of thought, tradition and culture.
If the events of reality and human action are then placed in the center of the figure described in paragraph 1; analysis and dealing, it is necessary that the 5 boundaries of the Pentagon can "import" inspirations, suggestions, methods, pensiero and possible solutions and then making the Christian liberal trasitare and meeting space called (political-economy).
Apparently the 5 sides of the perimeter change depending on the location from which you want to see the world. We need a method of forcing not to miss, since the matter is vast in time, space and content. The activities of the Club moves within the following "scope": 3.1 Boundary values, characterized by:
Personalism
Individual freedom Individual responsibility
Subsidiarity Solidarity
3.2 Perimeter century, characterized by:
Power Politics Economics
Wealth
Salvation
3.3Perimetro doctrinal / cultural features:
Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church: Rome symbolically
Tardoscolastica:
Salamanca School "Austrian" economics: Vienna
Enlightenment / Anglo-Saxon liberalism / American: Edinburgh / Philadelphia
Federalism Helvetic : Grütli
3.4
business unit, characterized by: a heritage
Store
Defending objective values \u200b\u200bare not negotiable
Translating the tradition to the present and future
declined to promote new ideas and experiences
compete in the formation of ideas and opinions
4. Requirements for supervision of the work of the Circle
Having defined the statute, the reasons, characteristics, scope and methodology governing the work of the Circle San Bernardino, you just have to give some references to the basic aspect that binds all: the liberal-Christian thought.
Apparently Christianity is not liberalism and liberalism is not Christianity. Although many scholars attempt to put them in total antithesis, while others attempt to prove it with equal force similar to what we are concerned the aim of the club is just that instead of highlighting the many possible points of contact and the points already in common Christianity and Liberalism. The points that unite are numerous, useful for the enhancement of the singularity of the human person and promote the common good that is pursuing liberal Christianity.
to penetrate properly into this "discovery" and to recognize the appeal, it is useful to recall some great quotes from scholars around the theme:
"I am convinced that if the fracture
between true liberalism and religious beliefs will not be remedied,
there will be no hope for the rebirth of liberal forces. "
F. von Hayek, April 1, 1947, the Mont Pelerin Society constitutive relationship
" When religion is destroyed a people, doubt takes hold of the most high intelligence and almost paralyzes all the others. This state of things wear out the soul and prepares citizens to slavery. In my opinion, I doubt that man can never stand at once a complete religious independence and entire political freedom and are led to believe that if he does not have faith, you have to serve and, if it is free you must believe that " .
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, ed. BUR 2003
"Those who, like us, sees the market economy a necessary condition for a society worthy of man, free, profitable and cut to man, has also voiced their opinions to the necessary mechanisms, attributes, and reasons this market economy: profit, own interests, the long list of freedoms, competition, ownership, the role of entrepreneurs, capital income, speculation and so on. We can not accept this. I honestly can not say yes to a market economy and say no to all the conditions and orders necessary, and I stress the word necessary. "
Wilhelm Röpke, The Gospel is not a socialist, and Rubbettino - Facco 2006
"The precepts of living together can not be dropped from above. Men must use their wits to impose order on chaos, intelligence is not understood in the scientific sense as the ability to solve problems, but understood in more complex as the ability to find and keep the agreement among his fellow. (...) The individual freedom can not be boundless, and also the same forces that make some necessary restrictions, if left free to operate can compress the sphere of human freedom far beyond what is sustainable. "
James Buchanan, The limits of freedom, ed. Rusconi 1998
"The reasons for which I think are exactly the same as those for which you do not believe"
Gilbert Chesterton, Orthodoxy, 1908, 1995 and Morcelliana
5. Bibliography
initial work of the Club can not help but refer to some basic texts. Among the many to list, give up to make an exhaustive list because depending on how you build on the work will be carefully identified the texts and authors that will do better reference to the investigation taking into account the perimeters of reference which the Club has given . However, at least some authors and their works are the cardinal points for the orientation of the work Club:
- Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church
- Christopher Dawson, Christianity and the formation of Western civilization
- Alejandro A. Chafuen, Christians for Freedom, Catholic roots economy dimercato
- Rodney Stark, Victory of Reason, as Christianity has resulted in freedom, progress and wealth
- Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
- Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy
in America - Friedrich A. Hayek, Law, Legislation and Liberty, The Road to Serfdom
- Wilhelm Röpke, Civitas Humana, liberal humanism, The Gospel is not a socialist
- Dario Antiseri, to defend the Christian market
- Flavio Felice, Capitalism and Christianity
- James Buchanan, The limits of freedom, the calculation of the consensus
- Michael Novak, The Catholic ethic and the spirit of capitalism
- Ludwig von Mises, The omnipotent state
- Joseph A. Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
- Milton Friedman, Free to Choose, Capitalism and Freedom
- Frederic Bastiat, What you see, what you do not see
- Antonio Rosmini, liberal personalities
- Gilbert K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
- Henry Delubac, the drama of atheistic humanism
- Sergio Rico, the end of the economy
Monte Carasso, January 2009
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