Ethics for Economy: Tribute to Mons. Pompeo Piva
On Thursday 21st of January 2010, in the San Pasquale Conference hall, the II Study Day on Ethics was held and this year's topic was Ethics for Economy: Tribute to Monsignor Pompeo Piva .
The numerous participants had the opportunity to fondly remember the moralist Theologian from Mantua who passed away one year ago for many years he was Lecturer of Ecumenical Ethics at Saint Bernadine Institute of Ecumenical Studies but also to take into consideration once again one of the key topics upon which he liked to reflect: Ethical economy.
Professor don Alberto Bonandi commenced the day by reading greetings and wishes from the Bishop of Mantua. The round table began with the presentation of Monsignor Piva's contribution: Ethics, Economy, Ecumenism .
Doctor Giovanni Scanagatta, general secretary of the Union of Christian Entrepreneurs, of which Piva himself had been national Secretary for several years, explained Monsignor's interpretation of ethical-economics, strongly focusing on the reality of enterprise.
Professor Carlo Prandi Lecturer of Sociology and History of Religions at Kessler Foundation in Trento, followed on this same path overviewing Piva's last publication I dream of a Christian entrepreneur .
In turn Professor Placido Sgroi, Lecturer of Ecumenical Theology at Institute of Ecumenical Studies, placed in a wider spectrum Piva's evolution of his Ecumenical Ethics, the Professor also recollected his figure in the afternoon session, while presenting N. 20 of the series Journal of Ecumenical Studies which collates his writings with the title The Prior Fact .
The morning session had concluded with an ample presentation on Ethics and Economics by Professor Alberto Bondolfi, Lecturer of Ethics at the Protestant Theological Faculty of Geneva: an eloquent reconstruction of how the Christian thought on Economics came to be. In the afternoon Professor Benedetto Gui, Lecturer of Economics at the University of Padua, jointly spoke on Economics and Ethics demonstrating the emerging of an ethical and anthropological interest in the current economical reflection, overtaking the claim of value-neutrality. Professor Simone Morandini, concluding the day, stressed that the intertwining of the two contributions underlines the necessity of a closer dialogue between the two disciplines which modernity has separated, but of which the current crisis highlights the evident interlacing: this is an obvious request to the Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church, but, as well as in the Ecumenical reflection on Justice, Peace and Safeguard of Creation.
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