A republican democracy, to be really and not in appearance, that is to say to function as it should, must be based on the independence of three essential Powers that are related to consolidate it: the Executive, the Legislative and the Judicial. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: DIFÍCIL, NO IMPOSIBLE
Hay una corriente filosófica de cierta antigüedad que sostiene que a muchos de nosotros solamente nos interesan los hechos de nuestra vida privada, lo que nos hace difícil experimentar subjetivamente, y de modo inteligente, lo que ocurre alrededor, es decir en la sociedad que integramos y en el planeta en el que ella debe funcionar. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: SOCIEDAD e INDIVIDUO
In its most common and understandable meaning, to think means to reflect, to carefully examine something to form an opinion. Implicit in this act is the fact that it allows forming ideas, opinions and even inducing action. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: EL LENGUAJE
I don’t know if when I write this column, the issue I want to deal with will have been resolved or will still be coming and going. Assuming the risk of developing reflections in this scenario, I do not want to curtail my right to free critical opinion. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: UN FALLO POLÉMICO
I have suddenly noticed, just by rereading some texts, that humanity, at this point in the evolution of science and technology and, supposedly, of education, is immersed in an infernal cycle regarding one of its most discussed problems the length and breadth of the planet: the damage that human beings, stuck in an apparent progress and in their ambitions, are causing to nature and that generates one of the greatest dangers for the near future. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: EL CICLO INTERMINABLE
Going back over old readings of philosophers from different times -Bacon, Kingsley, Huxley, Russell- I have noticed the antiquity of a problem that Uruguayan society suffers today and that I, perhaps confused by the speed, sound and little thinking of the modern world, I had believed something installed from the democratic restoration after the dictatorship. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: LA POLÍTICA MITÓMANA
