Il Prof. Fabio G. Angelini ha partecipato alla presentazione dell’edizione italiana del libro di Andrew Abela, Dean della Busch School of Business della Catholic University of America, “Super Habits”. L’evento, tenutosi presso la Sala Nassiriya del Senato della Repubblica e moderato dalla giornalista RAI Nancy Squitieri, è stato ospitato dalla Sen. Mariastella Gelmini e ha visto la partecipazione dell’Ambasciatore degli Stati Uniti presso la Santa Sede Brian Burch e di una delegazione di docenti e studenti dell’MBA della The Catholic University of America di Washington DC.
”Andrew Abela’s book Superhabits is much more than a book of personal development, because it sits within a much deeper intellectual tradition. It highlights a crucial insight for contemporary political and constitutional reflection: a free society cannot rely exclusively on institutions, procedures, and legal rules. Law provides the institutional infrastructure of freedom, but it cannot by itself generate the moral and cultural conditions that sustain social cooperation. This reflects the principle of the subsidiarity of law, according to which legal norms operate within a broader ethical and cultural framework. Drawing on the tradition of virtue ethics, Abela emphasizes the importance of human virtues – such as justice, prudence, courage, and self-discipline – in shaping freedom in accordance with human dignity. These virtues form the habits that allow individuals to exercise freedom without turning it into arbitrariness. In the digital age, this insight becomes even more relevant, as online environments often encourage immediacy, polarization, and emotional reactions. Legal regulation alone cannot address these dynamics. What becomes decisive is the moral quality of individuals and institutions. Institutions can limit power, but they cannot substitute the human virtues necessary for sustaining a free and pluralistic society. For this reason, the reflection on human virtues is not merely a moral question but a profoundly institutional one, because it ultimately concerns the future of democratic societies” (Fabio G. Angelini)
