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My work-product is not mine
Locke (+ 1704) introduced the idea that, anything you work on, is your property. This is the seed of liberalism. This idea was also used by Marx to define worker’s …Read More »I vote for teenage pregnancy
In modern world, we start to live too late. Because of our fetichism with education, we delay marriage and work until unnatural ages (30+). This shows our lack of confidence …Read More »Las dos libertades
Hay un problema entendiendo la libertad, porque nos ciega la parte animal, y pensamos que libertad es tener opciones, estar desamarrados. Para un animal, la movilidad (su libertad) es un requisito …Read More »Should we look for knowledge or certainty
Deduction (stepping on previous truths and making an inference) is the only way to be certain of a proposition. But certainty is not the same as knowledge.Induction, on the other …Read More »Socrates for Secretary!
Socrates refused to write his teachings. He believed that educating required dialoging, extracting knowledge, not passing information. Today, that we have all the information of the world at our fingertips …Read More »Progress is a Jewish invention
Hebrews enriched the western civilization with the idea that history was not circular (which was the idea in Egypt and Mesopotamia, because of agriculture) but lineal (because of creation-redemption).Read More »No ideas falsas sino pobres
El conocimiento no es una luz que se recibe sino una luz que se da, que se pone en las cosas: una explicación. Por eso es siempre intencional. El criterio …Read More »Ethics come from biology, not politics
Aristotle discovered that the proper way to behave (individually -ethics- or collectively -politics) must be rooted in Nature, not in convention.Read More »
Mi cerebro está vacío
/in Bullets, Epistemology /by Bobby A Lopez¡Se ha perdido tanto tiempo en la Filosofía Moderna por visualizar que la mente es un ‘objeto’ que tiene que relacionarse con otros objetos (la realidad)!
Mi cerebro está vacío…es una ventana.
The 4 mutations that triggered the evolution of the family
/in Anthropology, Bullets /by Bobby A LopezEach species develops the reproductive strategy most fitted to its ecological niche. Humans developed a pair-bonding, social monogamy system.
Our present undertanding of evolution suggests the main mutations that triggered this outcome are:
1. The evolution of bipedalism (walking upright) made pregnancy more motion-limiting for mothers. Also, it twisted the birth canal making delivery complicated and exhausting.
2 . Encephalization (enlargement of the brain), made birth a complicated and prostrating endeavor. These large-headed offspring can only be born with an incomplete skull. This make them immature and unable to even walk for a year, making them the most utterly dependent creature among mammals.
3. Opposable thumbs gave us great capabilities, but impeded the ‘clipping’ of babies on the mother’s fur, as the other primates do to carry them arround. This forced mothers to bear newborns in their arms, limiting their gathering and feeding abilities to a minimum.
4. The appearence of menopause (interruption of female fertility at the middle of their lives) is quite weird, considering evelution is maximization of the flow of life. But it enables grandmothers to collaborate in their grandchildren’s upbringing, something that, for the flow of life, has proven to be better than having their own children.
In this ecological niche, Nature tested a pair bonding reproductive systems that incentivized the male to stay around the mother of his offspring, helping her, to nurture them. The human family was invented.
It is important to find the natural roots of human institutions, so not to use them in a wrong, unnatural, way.
Cómo nació la Postmodernidad
/in Bullets, History of Ideas /by Bobby A LopezLa postmodernidad es una pérdida de confianza en la Modernidad. Comenzó, a manifestarse cuando se acabó la euforia de la reconstrucción, tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Comenzó, entonces, la Guerra Fría, surgiendo, en ella, el miedo a una guerra nuclear que destruyera completamente el planeta.
El pesimismo que trajo la rotura del mito del progreso indefinido fue ahogado con los narcóticos de las siguientes actitudes:
1. Pacifismo : ninguna guerra vale la pena ser luchada, por principio.
2. Ecologismo pesimista: el hombre es un peligro o, al menos, un estorbo para la naturaleza
3. Ludismo, o búsqueda del entretenimiento como la única forma asequible de felicidad.
Esto incluye:
a) el sexo como diversión, y la pornografía;
b) las drogas para manejar el ánimo;
c) los video juegos y, últimamente,
d) la addicción a series de TV.
La contemplación de estos síntomas, por quién está fuera de la Civilización Occidental, llevan a percibirla como decadente.
A Minuscule History of Love
/in Bullets /by Bobby A LopezAttraction man-woman in antiquity was considered a mere passion. Marriage, on the contrary, was a social contract, with little to do with passion. Love was only between equals: the enjoyment of friendship.
Later, Christianity invented ‘agapé’ or ‘charitas’, a “love in reverse”, where, what the lover wants is to fulfill the loved one, not himself.
Christians learned this from the history of Creation plus the history of Incarnation. Since then, they are trying to build marriages based on this “meta-natural” pattern. Will they succeed?
My personal mission statement
/in About Me, Bullets /by Bobby A LopezMy mission, in the intellectual realm, is to help to turn the page of Modernity as a 600 year-long epoch in the history of ideas.
Some of the weapons I use in this endeavor are, however, quite modern: revolutionary utopism, and irreverence. And some are postmodern, like hyperbolic headlines, and bit-sized thoughts.
Wanna help? Think, and talk, along the lines of this blog (and choose your own weapons).
Einstein no creyó en la Relatividad
/in Bullets /by Bobby A LopezUna cosa es lo que la Teoría de la Relatividad de Einstein nos enseña del Universo y otra lo que Einstein pensaba del Universo.
Einstein creía en un Universo determinista clásico (newtoniano modificado para altas velocidades). Pero la Relatividad fue el principio del visión dinámica del Cosmos, evolucionando desde un átomo inicial.