In doing so the egoist dehumanizes the very self which seeks to gather more and more at the expense of others. This dehumanization of self and of others is often objectified in social structures. Starting from our own acts of egoism, we become exploiters of others and harden the process into a structure of society which may rightly be called sin objectified. Egoism becomes hardened in ideas and institutions, in impersonal and depersonalized structures and set ways of thinking which gradually escape our direct control. Evil is overcome only by good.
Egoism is overcome only by generosity.
To be just, it is not enough to refrain from injustice. One must go further and refuse to play the game, substituting love for self-interest as the driving force of society. Here precisely is where we begin to feel how difficult is the struggle for justice. The paramount objective of Jesuit education must be to form men and women for others. This is the prolongation into the modern world of our humanist tradition as derived from the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius.