Abstract
Within this article, The Education in the Society of Jesus and the modus parisiensis, we try to show the importance and the way the modus parisiensis, influences, decisively, the education in the Society of Jesus. Saint Ignatius had a very clear goal in his mind: the entire life of men should be directed towards The Greater Glory of God (Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam). The Schools and the Universities couldn’t have escaped this rule. Therefore, the Jesuits never conceived education as an end in itself, but a way to a greater goal, Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam. This Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam demands honesty, exigency and commitment to what is being done. Any human dimension, if lived in this perspective, it will always be dived and identified with the divine. The education is a privileged way to man to reach God in a more conscientious way. Saint Ignatius and its first companions had perceived the scope of education and, therefore, they had tried to find a way and an order so that, through the study, each pupil reached the excellence, the magis, in that stage of their lives. Modus parisiensis seemed to Saint Ignatius and the first Jesuits, the ideal instrument to achieve their aim.
| Original language | Portuguese |
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| Title of host publication | "Da Europa para Évora e Évora para o Mundo” |
| Subtitle of host publication | a Universidade Jesuítica de Évora 1559-1759 |
| Editors | Maria de Fátima Nunes, Augusto da Silva |
| Publisher | Instituto Superior Económico e Social de Évora |
| Pages | 171-202 |
| Publication status | Published - 2009 |
Keywords
- Modus parisiensis
- Class
- Method
- School exercises
- Stimulus
- Piety and words
- Brothers of the common life