EL PENSADOR: ¿HACIA DONDE VA LA POLÍTICA?

The Dutch ethologist Frans de Waal acquired much of his prestige after publishing the book «The politics of chimpanzees», in which – as I have already described more than once – he analyzes experiences carried out by scientists with these animals at the Arnhem Zoo, comparing them with the essential human political facts that, even practiced today, come from ancient times. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: ¿HACIA DONDE VA LA POLÍTICA?

EL PENSADOR: DE UNA BUENA VEZ

Si se presta atención a todo lo que se dice del Poder Judicial –procurando, claro, analizarlo desde un punto de vista racional, lógico, de libertad de pensamiento crítico- sobran motivos para, cuanto menos, expresar preocupación. If attention is paid to everything that is said about the Judiciary – trying, of course, to analyze it from a rational and logical point of view, of freedom of critical thought – there are plenty of reasons to, at least, express concern. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: DE UNA BUENA VEZ

EL PENSADOR: EL DRAMA EN LA EDUCACIÓN

There is concern about the economic, moral and intellectual degradation of society. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: EL DRAMA EN LA EDUCACIÓN

EL PENSADOR:AH.., LAS COALICIONES..

They are like a diverse family avenged by convenience, in which precarious bridges of approach to consensus are built, while disagreements and selfishness are exhibited by sectoral interests almost always related to the wishes of each member to increase their power, their strength in the face not already to the benefit of society but to the eventual electoral weight to be achieved tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR:AH.., LAS COALICIONES..

EL PENSADOR: cuando la calle es una selva

The work stoppage and street demonstrations have refueled fuel in recent days. Everything indicates that they will continue. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: cuando la calle es una selva

EL PENSADOR: ¿RIDICULEZ O RIESGO SOCIAL?

In a pamphlet he published in 1925, entitled «What I Believe,» Bertrand Russell, in the chapter on righteous living, wrote: «When I say that the morality of conduct must be judged by its probable consequences, I mean that we wish see approved the conduct that is likely to achieve the social ends we want, and disapproved the opposite conduct. Currently this is not done; there are certain traditional norms according to which approval and disapproval are distributed regardless of the consequences Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: ¿RIDICULEZ O RIESGO SOCIAL?