The Common Good, protagonist of the 10th UNIJES Ethics Meeting for Lecturers
Comillas hosted this day of interdisciplinary reflection for lecturers on contemporary ethical challenges
9 July 2025
Comillas Pontifical University hosted the 10th Ethics Meeting for Lecturers organised by the Iberdrola Chair in Economic amd Business Ethics on behalf of the UNIJES Ethics Group. The aim of the meeting, which this year was entitled "The Return of the Common Good", was to serve as a training and meeting space for both university lecturers in Professional Ethics and for all those lecturers interested in such training.
In times of climate change, post-pandemic, financial uncertainties and lack of basic security due to wars, the aim was to address the major ethical questions that affect the entire human race and for which the ethics centred on the modern possessive individualism of the end of the 18th century is now proving to be insufficient. A subject, sustained by an unprecedented technological revolution which reflects a change, with disruptive aspects that require us to rethink, from our moral tradition, essential values such as freedom, justice and solidarity.
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The inauguration was led by the Vice-Rector for Institutional Relations, Organisation and General Secretary of Comillas, Dolores Carrillo; the co-president of the UNIJES Identity and Mission Commission, Javier Cía SJ; the Vice-Dean for Academic Organisation, Teaching Staff and Quality of the Faculty of Economics and Business Studies, Laura Lazcano, and the Director of the Iberdrola Chair of Economic and Business Ethics at Comillas, José Luis Fernández.
Luis J. Argüello, Archbishop of Valladolid, who reflected on the Common Good from the social doctrine of the Church; José Luis Retolaza, professor of economic ethics, who proposed an economy of the Common Good as an alternative to the current model; and Juan José Almagro, director and academic, who highlighted the transforming role of university education. Ildefonso Camacho SJ, professor emeritus and a reference in Christian social thought, offered a Jesuit vision of the Common Good and received a tribute for his career as president of Identity and Mission at UNIJES.
The final round table brought together Carmen Fuente, from Villanueva University; Leire Sanjosé, from the University of the Basque Country; Paolo Saona, from Saint Louis University, and Andrés González, from Comillas Pontifical University, who addressed specific initiatives aimed at social impact, from education and social accounting to equity in business and universal access to energy. The meeting reaffirmed the commitment of Jesuit universities to the construction of a society oriented towards the Common Good, from an ethical, critical and deeply humanistic perspective.
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