Lo que es realmente humano, no es lo animal
What is really human, is not animal
Estamos viviendo tiempos excesivamente confusos, nos cuesta discernir entre lo que est谩 bien y lo que est谩 mal porque el posmodernismo ha promovido la idea de que todo es relativo, y si todo es relativo, el bien y el mal no existen. Entonces 驴No existe la maldad? esta pregunta me ha llevado a profundas reflexiones que quiero hoy compartirles, pero desde ya les adelanto que, lo malo y la maldad si existe, y hoy se est谩 camuflando de diversidad.
We are living in excessively confusing times, it is difficult for us to discern between what is right and what is wrong because postmodernism has promoted the idea that everything is relative, and if everything is relative, good and evil do not exist. This question has led me to deep reflections that I would like to share with you today, but I already tell you that evil and wickedness do exist, and today they are camouflaged as diversity.
Primero que nada, he podido responder a esta pregunta gracias a mis estudios en politolog铆a, desde que empec茅 a estudiar ten铆a el presentimiento de que descubrir铆a algo perturbador sobre la realidad humana, y en efecto, as铆 fue. Mira a tu alrededor, es claro que hay cosas que son malas para la vida, puesto que la vida siempre intenta continuar con los medios a su alcance, lo malo para la vida es no existir, es la muerte, pero m谩s all谩 de la vida 驴Qu茅 es lo malo?
Para dar respuesta a esta pregunta me fui a mis valores y los cuestion茅, son valores profundamente cristianos y cat贸licos. Sin embargo, no pude encontrar una respuesta tan f谩cilmente, as铆 que fui m谩s all谩, le铆 los 10 mandamientos hebreos de la Biblia y not茅 un patr贸n, la gran mayor铆a de estos mandamientos son normas que regulan sentimientos, como el rencor, el odio, la gula, entre otros; se considera por lo tanto a estos sentimientos como malignos. Entonces not茅 otro patr贸n, los animales tambi茅n tienen sentimientos, es una cualidad propia de los seres vivos el sentir su ambiente para reaccionar a 茅l. Bajo este razonamiento deduje que, los sentimientos no son propiamente humanos, puesto que, lo que diferencia al ser humano de los animales, es su capacidad de razonar.
First of all, I have been able to answer this question thanks to my studies in political science, since I started studying I had the feeling that I would discover something disturbing about human reality, and indeed, I did. Look around you, it is clear that there are things that are bad for life, since life always tries to continue with the means at its disposal, what is bad for life is not to exist, it is death, but beyond life, what is bad?
To give an answer to this question I went to my values and questioned them, they are deeply Christian and Catholic values. However, I could not find an answer so easily, so I went further, I read the 10 Hebrew commandments of the Bible and noticed a pattern, the vast majority of these commandments are rules that regulate feelings, such as resentment, hatred, gluttony, among others; these feelings are therefore considered evil. Then I noticed another pattern, animals also have feelings, it is a quality of living beings to feel their environment to react to it. Under this reasoning I deduced that feelings are not properly human, since what differentiates human beings from animals is their capacity to reason.
Lo realmente humano es lo razonable, pero muchas veces confundimos lo humano con lo animal, y omitimos por completo la distinci贸n esencial entre un ser humano y un animal: la capacidad de pensar, razonar y autopercibirse como alguien. Lo realmente humano nos ayuda a mejorar, promueve el desarrollo integral de nuestra civilizaci贸n; por otra parte lo animal nos hace irracionales, y ello conlleva a nuestra decadencia y miseria. Tenemos sentimientos porque somos en parte animales, pero no somos animales, somos humanos, y nuestra mejor versi贸n solo se desarrollar谩 a trav茅s de la raz贸n, no de la emoci贸n.
No se trata pues, de que todos los seres humanos sean malos por naturaleza como dijo Thomas Hobbes en su obra "Leviat谩n", se trata de que nuestra naturaleza es en parte, maligna, porque es irracional, y es esa parte animal lo que las normas cristianas intentan controlar o suprimir. Teniendo en cuenta esto, resulta evidente lo que est谩 mal en nuestras sociedades contempor谩neas, donde la cuesti贸n de la identidad (sobre todo sexual) ha llegado a un punto en el que se equipara a un ser humano con un perro, una aberraci贸n tal que nos puede llevar a nuestra propia autodestrucci贸n.
What is truly human is what is reasonable, but many times we confuse what is human with what is animal, and we completely omit the essential distinction between a human being and an animal: the capacity to think, reason and perceive oneself as someone. The truly human helps us to improve, promotes the integral development of our civilization; on the other hand, the animal makes us irrational, and this leads to our decadence and misery. We have feelings because we are partly animals, but we are not animals, we are humans, and our best version will only develop through reason, not emotion.
It is not that all human beings are evil by nature as Thomas Hobbes said in his work "Leviathan", it is that our nature is partly evil because it is irrational, and it is this animal part that Christian norms try to control or suppress. With this in mind, it becomes clear what is wrong with our contemporary societies, where the question of identity (especially sexual identity) has reached a point where a human being is equated with a dog, an aberration that can lead to our own self-destruction.
Tambi茅n hay sentimientos positivos, as铆 que no se trata de dejar de sentir, se trata de saber discernir cu谩ndo act煤as por emoci贸n y cu谩ndo act煤as por raz贸n. Mi intenci贸n con esta reflexi贸n es hacerlos cuestionar todo lo que vean en las redes sociales con criterio propio, y hacerlos pensar sobre estas cosas, porque como dijo Hugo Grocio en su obra "De iure belli ac pacis": ni siquiera Dios puede hacer que lo malo deje de ser malo, es decir, hay cosas malas por naturaleza, y debemos aprender a reconocerlas. Y por si acaso: estoy aqu铆 solo para difundir mis pensamientos.
There are also positive feelings, so it is not about not feeling, it is about knowing how to discern when you act out of emotion and when you act out of reason. My intention with this reflection is to make you question everything you see in social networks with your own criteria, and make you think about these things, because as Hugo Grotius said in his work "De iure belli ac pacis": not even God can make what is bad stop being bad, that is, there are bad things by nature, and we must learn to recognize them. And just in case: I am here just to spread my thoughts.
Ahora dime: 驴crees que hay cosas malas?
Now tell me: do you think there are bad things?
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-Edmund Burke.
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