PHILOSOPHY AT DHARMARAM AND AN INTEGRAL OUTLOOK

Abstract

‘Dharmaram’, translated as a ‘garden of virtues’ and symbolizing the Sacred Heart of Jesus, is a name the founding fathers of Dharmaram College have consciously and purposefully selected to initiate the process of nurturing a noble legacy of integration that would mould a group of human beings and a set of institutions for the coming generations. It is an ārām, a garden, where everything has its constitutive role, resulting in the very formation of the garden itself. The garden, in turn, sets the dynamic ambience where each person and each thing can find its rightful and meaningful place. Indeed, primarily, the garden that the Dharmaram is, as the Sacred Heart of Jesus, symbolises a nurturing ground of human beings who would blossom into persons endowed with virtues, i.e., with an integral outlook that would pave the way for oneself and others, along with the whole nature, to coexist and pro-exist, and work for the establishment of a just and dialogically vibrant society.