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Goals
Interested in the reconstruction of the Polis, the Civil Society?
General Goals
Remember
that
the struggle for the Civil Society is always and everywhere enclosed within these choices
INDIVIDUALLY
to serve God or ... Mammon
to control things or ... be controlled by things
to acquire control of oneself or ... control over others
TOGETHER WITH OTHERS,
THE CHOICE IS
WORKING
for republican and democratic institutions
or
for fascism, communism, and unbridled capitalism.
I, Carmine Gorga, thought I had discovered something new when I wrote these words. But then I read that, in the 4th century AD, St. Augustine had distinguished between true love and a distorted love of self in these terms:
"These are two loves,
the one of which is holy, the other, unholy;
one social, the other individualist;
one takes heed of the common utility because of the heavenly society,
the other reduces even the commonweal to its own ends
because of a proud lust of domination;
the one is subject to God, the other sets itself up as a rival to God;
the one is serene, the other tempestuous;
the one peaceful, the other quarrelsome;
the one prefers truthfulness to deceitful praises,
the other is utterly avid of praise;
the one is friendly, the other jealous;
the one desires for its neighbor what it would for itself,
the other is desirous of lording it over its neighbor;
the one directs its effort to the neighbor's good, the other to its own."
Saint Augustine, The City of God, Garden City, New York: Image Books, 1958, p. 27.
Reading and pondering might help make the right choice.
In the end, the choice is always made by the individual conscience.
Happy reading.... Happy pondering .... Happy Choices!!!