EL PENSADOR: LA TRAMPA DEL ENUNCIADO

The generic meaning of the verb to enunciate is –except, as an exception, in its application to mathematics- of impressive clarity: “Explain, briefly and simply, an idea”. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: LA TRAMPA DEL ENUNCIADO

EL PENSADOR: Camión de Rezagados

Every time society becomes embroiled in a bristling debate, aggressive about any of the main problems that affect her, it is only possible to select from sayings of all kinds that fly overhead, mostly overly politicized, a common denominator as an image of the beginning of a more constructive stage –although one intuits that, for the majority, it will be reduced to another verbiage without a healthy active impulse-: education. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: Camión de Rezagados

EL PENSADOR: ESPACIOS Y ACTIVIDADES

THE THINKER: SPACES AND ACTIVITIES En un contexto de desbordada politización, con tufo a campaña pre-electoral adelantada a empellones, el oficialismo y la oposición están incrementando un debate que, cual parabrisas de automóvil moderno, va tal vez demasiado rápido de … Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: ESPACIOS Y ACTIVIDADES

EL PENSADOR: una ley a derogar

There is an old phrase that for decades has been among the favorites of Danilo Arbilla, a colleague whom I respect and with whom I have shared years of journalism, and it falls like a glove for this column that I decided to write: Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: una ley a derogar

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