“Muchos jóvenes renuncian a la política porque piensan que tendrán que traicionar sus principios”, afirma la catedrática Mary Ann Glendon
"Many young people give up on politics because they think they will have to betray their principles," says Professor Mary Ann Glendon
The Harvard professor is part of the group "Religion and Civil Society" of the Institute for Culture and Society of the University of Navarra.
"I am saddened by the large number of talented young people who begin their programs of study university studies with the intention of going into politics and finally decide not to do so. This happens because they often wonder if they would have to betray their principles or sell their soul to keep a public position ," said Professor Mary Ann Glendon at the University of Navarra (high school business and Humanism).
The doctor Honoris Causa of the academic center gave a lecture at lecture as part of the first meeting of the group "Religion and Civil Society", of which she is a member. This group, directed by Professor Rafael Alvira, is one of the members of the recently created Institute for Culture and Society.
In his speech, he explained how it is possible to be faithful to personal values and at the same time be successful in political life. To this end, he reflected on the careers of Cicero, orator and politician during the end of the Roman Republic, and Edmund Burke, an 18th century Irish politician born in England.
"It's interesting to study these characters to see how they dealt with similar problems facing young people today," the expert noted. "Burke, for example, had to balance Irish Catholic heritage with the political success of Protestants in England, who were hostile to Catholicism. Cicero, meanwhile, was forced to balance his love of republican values with political opportunity in an increasingly authoritarian Roman government," she explained.
An example of reconciling political life and values
Mary Ann Glendon (Massachusetts, USA), professor and professor of law at Harvard University, is an expert on human rights and Constitutional Law comparative human rights in Europe and the USA.
In 1994 she was called by Pope John Paul II to the newly created Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences and in 1995 she headed the 22-member delegation of the Holy See to the Fourth UN Women's lecture in Beijing. In both cases she was the first woman to assume these responsibilities. In 1998 she was named by The National Law Journal as one of the "fifty most influential jurists in America." From 2007 to 2009 she served as U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See.
subject Mary Ann Glendon won the 1988 award Scribes Book Award from theAmerican Society of Writers on Legal Subjects for her book Abortion and Divorce in Western Law. He has also published A nation under lawyers: how the crisis in the legal profession is transforming American society and The Transformation of Family Law: State, Law, and Family in the United States and Western Europe, among other titles.