Lledo warns against ignorance, violence and cruelty around us – El Universal (Venezuela)

.- Oviedo The philosopher Emilio Lledó today expressed concern at a company on which a “full reality of violent clouds” hovering and in which, despite the real progress The human race may still be able to overcome ignorance, violence and cruelty.

Awarded the Princess of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities 2015, Lledo made a defense of the humanities, as a result of a long cultural process during his speech at the ceremony of presenting awards.

“The ideal sky of Humanities is actually full of violent thunderclouds. Just open the newspaper or listen to the news,” he said.

And that he went dark “makes us think if this prodigious invention of the Humanities has not deteriorated us and if, despite the undoubted real progress, mankind has failed to overcome ignorance and its inevitable company, violence, cruelty “.

In the presence of Felipe and Letizia kings, Lledo an impact on the human race has become rather” human desgénero “.

The philosopher emphasized the incessant experience that is life, man learned how to look, to wonder at the nature around you, and how the early philosophers discovered that sense of wonder and began to theorize about the fundamental principles of life: water, air and earth.

After the discovery “the joy of the senses” was determined by a new outlook and a new designed objects and watched, called the Latin tradition and concepts forged a new universe of elementary words.

In this constellation of meanings they emerged elements such as truth, goodness and beauty, “semantic pure air that nothing pointed out himself, but whose sameness began to be as vital as air or water. “

Lledo explained how those elements of culture irradiated toward an ideal horizon of human life which are at the origin of the concept of the humanities,” a term has made us familiar and, for that very familiarity could slip, inadvertently, by the fertile territory of their meanings. “

” That word, full of life, humanities, is the result of a long cultural process, “said Lledo, for whom is also” an ideal in the collective memory and, above all, a result not only of the theory, look, it is strength, dynamism and wealth for society “.

The humanities learn and communicate, said Lledó after impact that are necessary “to make us who we are, to know what we are and especially not blind us to what we want and we must be.”

The philosopher also stressed the importance of education in how determined conditions, slaves or free our lives, and how teachers or teachers are aware of the privilege that involves communication and education in freedom.