Cuatro problemas fundamentales heredados de la ilustración Cuando la humanidad se vuelve un discurso pseudohumanitas
As a result of the Enlightenment in the eighteenth century an epistemological is occurred establishing the basis of the (Western) humanity in matters of reason and State structures, making “humanity” a discourse. This change reflected throughout history would arrive to our times creating four fun...
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| Sumario: | As a result of the Enlightenment in the eighteenth century an epistemological is
occurred establishing the basis of the (Western) humanity in matters of reason and State
structures, making “humanity” a discourse. This change reflected throughout history would
arrive to our times creating four fundamental problems; which will cause a loss of the
“sense of humanity”.
As consequence of this event, the "self" (human individual) will be configured as a
useful and disciplined (productive) piece of the social machinery. The "self" and "the
other" will become a mass, where individuality gives away its importance to a world of
production (Foucault, 2004) and cultural consumption (Adorno and Horkheimer, 2000).
This post-Enlightenment man’s moral will represent what Nietzsche called "the will
to nothingness" or a "mediocre man´s moral” (Nietzsche, 2004) which was inherited from
Christianity and will be reinforced by an institutionalization in law. The post-
Enlightenment man´s values code will be based, not on ontology, but in a legal structure
that is improper to man himself.
Freedom will change its meaning, from a “theologization” of its truth, to a
rationalization of it. Man, through this epistemological shift, freedom will be established as
a discourse, or, in praxis, by breaking the law (Žižek, 1997). The post-Enlightenment man
will externalize and spread freedom at the trembling hand of society, which without
knowing what is freedom pretends to grant liberty to man .
The three preceding problems trigger a forth: the loss of reflection about humanity.
The man shallow into a structural field and consumerism has lost the sense of the
ontological question for humanity. By establishing humanity as a biology technical
discourse, the "self" will be vanished and the man will be turned into a mass, the “slight”
thinking will prevail and opaque the fundamental sense of the human being.
In consequence, epistemological shift occurred in the Enlightenment will inherit to
us these four problems in a indirect way, making the man an in-human been (Lyotard,
1988), and what is more overwhelming, making him satisfied with it. |
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