{"id":12,"date":"2024-09-19T06:55:05","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T06:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/luxmundi.eu\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2024-12-23T14:54:45","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T13:54:45","slug":"our-mission","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/luxmundi.eu\/index.php\/our-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6daaebe8e301edd0b6e71c474e4e311a\">We are a liberal arts institute in the original sense of the word \u2018liberal\u2019. Our goal is to cultivate young people into balanced, contemplative, steadfast adults. Our curriculum follows the&nbsp;<em>great books<\/em>&nbsp;programme \u2014 studying the works that have shaped Western civilization and do so until this very day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-79eb9339eee516556a3ecc95cf3bd272\">Our identity is neither \u2018progressive\u2019 nor \u2018conservative\u2019 \u2014 instead, we are classical. Following Aristotle, we believe that every form of contemplation starts with \u2018wonder\u2019 (Met. I.2.) and a genuine quest for truth across various academic disciplines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-28ae27ba30c27e2a46a469263be04955\">Yet wonder needs anchorage \u2014 a star that guides the ship to its destination (cf. Aquinas,\u00a0<em>De Regno<\/em>). Our anchor points are the fundamental principles of Western civilization. Specifically, man is a social creature, created Imago Dei (Gen. 1:27; cf.\u00a0<em>Caritas in Veritate<\/em>) and endowed with unalienable dignity (cf.\u00a0<em>Dignitas Humanae<\/em>;\u00a0<em>Dignitas Infinita<\/em>)<em>\u00a0<\/em>which expresses itself in a rich familial and cultural tapestry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ad91f9f5a9fb4c7cc6060f76bb474beb\">The Son of Man teaches us: \u201cYou are the light of the world.\u201d Amazed by the beauty of Western tradition, Lux Mundi aims to form students&nbsp;<em>anew<\/em>&nbsp;into the light of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are a liberal arts institute in the original sense of the word \u2018liberal\u2019. Our goal is to cultivate young people into balanced, contemplative, steadfast adults. Our curriculum follows the&nbsp;great books&nbsp;programme \u2014 studying the works that have shaped Western civilization and do so until this very day. Our identity is neither \u2018progressive\u2019 nor \u2018conservative\u2019 \u2014&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/template-cover.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxmundi.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxmundi.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxmundi.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxmundi.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxmundi.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/luxmundi.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":382,"href":"https:\/\/luxmundi.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions\/382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxmundi.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}