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Homo homini lupus. Molto prima di Hobbes e fino ai nostri giorni, fra miti, religioni, filosofia e scienza, la civiltà occidentale è stata ossessionata dallo spettro di una natura umana così avida e litigiosa, cosi "bestialmente" egoista, che deve essere tenuta a bada da un pugno di ferro istituzionale da cui traggono la loro giustificazione gerarchie e diseguaglianze sociali. Questa visione presuppone una contrapposizione fondante tra natura e cultura che antropologia e paleontologia invece contraddicono. La natura dell'Homo sapiens è la sua cultura, anzi le sue culture. E la stessa idea che siamo schiavi delle nostre inclinazioni animali non è altro che una creazione socio-storica, cioè culturale. Un'idea non proprio felice, visti i risultati.
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- Pagine: 127
- Data di uscita: 28-09-2009
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Prickly Paradigm Press has taken to printing “pamphlets”, shortish polemical works by important thinkers. This is the first I have seen, and it is pretty good. Its convoluted title is an agreeable spoof based on the titles of pamphlets from earlier times. The discussion itself, however, is no spoof. Leggi tutto
In Ovid’s Metamorphoses , we come across a man named Actaeon, a great hunter, who wandered too far from his city state into the dark woods. There he accidentally saw the Greek goddess of the wild, Artemis, bathing. Enraged, Artemis transformed Actaeon into a stag, and then he was hunted and killed by Leggi tutto
On a ‘contempt for the human’ in Western ideas, that infiltrates every area of thought because it is in our Greek underpinnings. The Judeo-Christian tradition is often blamed for our negativity towards the species, and I’ve often wondered sadly (yet with hope) what we’d be without the concept of Orig Leggi tutto
Szerzőnk antropológus és feketeöves kulturális relativista. Szerinte a nyugati politikai berendezkedések (a monarchiától a köztársaságig) arra az elgondolásra épültek, hogy létezik egy eredendően rossz (önző, gyarló, erőszakos stb.) emberi természet, s ezt az állandót kell valahogy a civilizáció/ural Leggi tutto
Γενεαλογία και κριτική της έννοιας της "ανθρώπινης φύσης¨από τους αρχαίους έλληνες ως τα σύγχρονα πολιτικά συστήματα και της μεταφυσικής τάξης που αυτή δημιουργεί με απτά πολιτικά και κοινωνικά αποτελέσματα. Απαραίτητο ανάγνωσμα για όσους ψυλιάζονται ότι κάτι δε πάει καλά στη φράση: ¨μα αυτό είναι τ Leggi tutto
"It’s all been a huge mistake. My modest conclusion is that Western civilization has been constructed on a perverse and mistaken idea of human nature. Sorry, beg your pardon; it was all a mistake. It is probably true, however, that this perverse idea of human nature endangers our existence." (112) Leggi tutto
An interesting and informal essay on the history of Western views of human nature. I appreciate Sahlins for calling out the cynical, self-loathing and essentialist views on this topic.
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