00:00What is the platform?
00:30And well, we have now reached this point where we discover the importance of a good end in our lives for our authentic ethical action and that a true foundation is precisely this reflection that we are making.
00:49The rules, the precepts we were saying, are important insofar as they help me to discover this purpose, to live in the encounter with the Lord in the case of our faith or to live in the encounter with the other in the case of friendship.
01:06To truly be of service to others. That's why, well, this principle is very important.
01:15As I was saying at the end, there are a number of contemporary ethical dilemmas that we will not be able to solve if we do not have this key.
01:23The key to the good that is the end goal in my life.
01:27And our ethical actions, I was saying, in accordance with that good.
01:31Only a good purpose in my life is capable of helping me to guide it, to order it.
01:38Well, by putting one first, yes? Isn't that what gives it some order?
01:43When you put one first in your life, nothing else comes along to take its place.
01:48However, as when we were talking about the problem of freedom, this is precisely where it becomes clear; it is something to be conquered.
01:57It's like freedom, it's like love.
01:58And in this stage of history that we are living through, we have to redefine it again.
02:09Rediscovering it. It's a job, a task for each generation.
02:14For this generation that is taking this course, it is a job, a task.
02:19The philosophers have spoken, I like to study them and try to understand what they have said.
02:24We're not the first to reflect on this. It would be a bit presumptuous to say we were the first, wouldn't it?
02:28Many have reflected on this and spoken out, and we must listen to them.
02:35But in the end, you have to do your own reflection, make your own decisions.
02:42On what basis will you guide your actions?
02:46And on what basis, as a leader, will you help others to act?
02:53And to act well.
02:54So, at this point, I want to talk to you about a metaphor that I think is very important and that is fundamental in this matter of ethics.
03:05There is within us, and this is said metaphorically, like a hidden spring.
03:12When have we discovered exactly what this spring is?
03:18When we have discovered this good, this thing that gives meaning to my life, at the same time internally there is something that will strengthen it and unify it, by organizing it.
03:31It is difficult because human beings are complex; they are body and soul, flesh and spirit.
03:40And the trend is that there will be a dialectic in this, in us.
03:44Eros and agape.
03:45We make a separation, not just a distinction, we separate them and put them against each other, in permanent struggle.
03:59And we fail to achieve this unity within ourselves.
04:03It is true, there is a conditioning, there is a complexity in what we are.
04:06And this inner synthesis of our person, of our deepest "I am," from which flows—that's why we spoke of this image of a fountain—
04:28from which our actions, our choices, our decisions flow.
04:33It's what makes us human.
04:34And the more we are united to this good that it does for me, the more we find this unity, this strength, this hidden spring that helps to resolve difficulties,
04:48to unify what is scattered within us.
04:53I invite you then to discover this spring, to enter into an ethics of the human person,
04:59in an ethics of good and an ethics of happiness, where I am not my own end, it is the other, this other, who can be my friend, who can be God.
05:11I invite you to discover it as a true foundation upon which we can build and enter into a real, authentic experience.
05:20of the person, of the person, of the good.
05:24And then, also, about the virtues necessary to be a person.
05:30As a leader, perhaps, to build those norms and precepts that must be put in place in a group, in a community,
05:41so that we can authentically walk towards a good, all together.
05:46Towards what allows each person to find what is good for them,
05:50And those conditions, which is what we call the common good, are the ethical requirements necessary for that encounter to be possible.
06:00for all members of a community, a political ethic, an ethic of the common good.
06:07So, we'll wrap up these five short videos with this conclusion.
06:13And, well, I invite you to follow this Agape Toy Leadership School 2020 course
06:18through this platform and in the following courses and topics that are being developed.
06:28Take them to the end.
