Un “ethos” para el gobierno y la administración: un debate entre el liberalismo y el jesuitismo políticos

Abstract

This survey refutes Carl Schmitt’s thesis that hold catholicism, and jesuitism in particular, as a great complexio oppositorum which joins both conservatism and leftism under a same absolute unity represented by the papal forms. The “ethos” of obedience postulated by the Society of Jesus decisively contributed to the formation of an Administration that surpasses the ecclesiastic burocracy’s framework. It replaced the Renaissance education for an education with a Thomist stamp, decisive in the fashioning of the disciplined “ethos” of the official who acts sine ira et studio. But it failed for its attempt to replace the vitality, the naturalism and the confrontation of opinions of Liberalism under the aforementioned complexio oppositorum.