La Convivencia Escolar: una perspectiva desde el concepto de persona en Santo Tomás de Aquino.

Abstract

Negative attitudes and violent events which affect coexistence are a reality suffered by society and its institutions in the present era. School is one of the most affected establishments and it is not due to a lack of sanctions. This reality has led governments and their organizations to reflect seriously into adjusting it from a legal sphere, seeking to move from a normative-punitive and sanctioning system, to a system that educates in order to exercise of Human Rights, education for sexuality, prevention and mitigation of school violence. Bearing this in mind, we want to inquire into the present investigation, the Thomism Humanism contribution for a healthy coexistence, which considers man as the creature of the highest dignity due to ones degree of participation of one selves being. For him: the person means what in every nature is perfect, that is, what subsists in the rational nature (STh I, q.29, a.3c). That is why educating is “Progressive conduction and promotion of the offspring to the perfect state of man as to man who is his state of virtue (STh II-III, q.166, a.1). Concepts that connects being, thinking and acting so that there is a healthy educational environment.