Reconciling Thought and Action in a Society Capable of Renewal

Abstract

For Chiara Lubich sociology can promote a new humanity. But, in order to accept this challenge, sociology has to become a “more social” science, able to find new solutions for community living. This means not only to build knowledge about the society, but also to search for new ways to live inside the society. This is an effort that other sciences made in the last century, offering new perspectives to their thinking, towards possible worlds. Social environment can generate a new humanity, with less conflicts and more able to create love and agapic action, sharing their vital roots. It is not enough to observe and to explain: it must become care and love that generate and improve capacities and strengths . As the night and the dawn prepare new life every day, also thought and action have to do the same inside a society that is more capable of renovate itself. Is not a vain desire but it is a necessary effort to prevent the drift of self-referring, that does not represent a new humanization.