Promoción de la justicia frente a utilitarismo en el pensamiento universitario del superior general de la Compañía de Jesús Peter Hans Kolvenbach

This paper addresses the discourse in relation to universities started by Peter Hans Kolvenbach, Superior General of the Society of Jesus between 1983 and 2008. In particular, we analyze the “iustitia” dimension as a distinctive element in Jesuit higher education and contextualize it within its historical tradition. The bid to promote social justice, in the university framework of the order of Ignacio of Loyola, also conforms with the standpoint that the Society of Jesus has had since the Second Vatican Council, positioned as an alternative to the utilitarian perspective