Simply looking around with an open mind and a critical spirit, it does not take too much light to notice that, during the last decades and increasingly, Uruguayan society has become a set of individualities in which selfishness prevails, manifested in different ways. although always present. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: EL OBJETIVO SOCIAL
Curiously – or not, pues tal vez hasta ahora haya sido solo ignorancia mia- all meanings of the words secularism,
secular, laicist or laicize refer to the independence of the State, or of society especially through education, of all ecclesiastical or religious influences. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: LA GRAN MANIOBRA
I wrote this somewhat lengthy article twenty years ago as part of the contributions that the wife of a great friend needs; she aspired to a doctorate at the University of Leuven and required professional opinions on the differences between literature and journalism. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: ¿Y SI FUERAN LA MISMA COSA?
Is legalized euthanasia such a complex and problematic issue as the interminable and even unbearable debate that we cannot get out of for decades suggests? Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: LA EUTANASIA
Is size important?
It depends, of course, on the size in question. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: EL TAMAÑO
If one is guided by the predominant journalistic discourse, to which inevitably we must add the very strong trend of politicization – which, in Creole language, that is «those from there, the opposition, against those from here, the government of the day» – A contradiction and the feeling that some mechanism of the State is failing in relation to a relevant issue is obvious. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: ALGO ESTA FALLANDO
