Arquivo para February, 2018
It is necessary to leave, body and soul
02
Feb
The idea that idleness comes from the Greeks, and there is even literature extolling it 
for false wisdom, does not correspond to truth, see what Aristotle says on the subject: “to exalt inertia more than action does not correspond to truth, because happiness is activity, “on the other hand activism prevents reflection and rest for a profitable activity.
Byung-Chul Han warns that our current culture is of a “Society of fatigue” (edited in Brazil by Vozes 2017): “The society of tiredness and performance today has traces of a coactive society, each carrying a field , a field of work. The specific characteristic of this field of work is that each one is both a prisoner and guardian, victim and tormentor, master and slave. We explore ourselves. “(Han, 2017, 115)
We give no respite to our body (of course others give too much), “work out” and other forms of exercise (Sloterdijk will call it “unsprayed ascesis”), fill with medicines and vitamins (the principle of immunology in both authors) , and it is not a quest, but only to be filled with nonsense until self-exhaustion.
Also the excess of courses (I’m referring to courses without content and profit), motivational lectures that cost 100 to 1 thousand reais, are part of a new wave.
It is a human search, understandable, everyone wants to find the new one, but if you look closely this set of things are just old ideas and attitudes made up, to “sell.”
Reeducating thought, relationships and even what we think of spirituality, which means giving meaning to subjective things (I have already said that there is no detachment or criticism of objectivities that would be a dualism), it means structuring the human soul and clear in a body.
It is necessary to get out of the routine, from the bureaucracy of daily life, without taking into account the mediatic appeals only.
In the Gospel of Mark, which recounts the healing of the mother-in-law, exalted in many preaching because she is server, but there is a more precious detail that says that Jesus left at night to pray and in him when the apostles say (Mk 1,37,38) Jesus replied: “Let us go to other places, to the surrounding villages! I must also preach there, for this is what I came for. ”
Self-indulgence and inertia need healing, it is necessary to move those who have a new spirit should quit the quest, should go out to listen to others, to live a healthy life
The metaphysical-ontological evil
01
Feb
We understand evil as the absence of the Good or its fragility, and with this we overcome Manichaeism,
we understand in a certain way the moral evil as one that has a direct relation with the ethical behavior, and indirectly with the religion and very rarely with the history of the philosophy , although this is essential for understanding “moral evil”.
The idea that has been developed during several aspects analyzing the Well of this classic antiquity, can address the problem of metaphysical-ontological evil.
Augustine of Hippona addressed the subject in the book I De libero arbitrio that Augustine through two questions that is specifically concerned, namely: What is the cause of the practice of evil (malefacere)? And what does it mean to behave badly?
In another work of Augustine (City of God) he states: “Every movement of the soul tends toward or toward a good to be acquired or preserved, or away from an evil to be avoided or discarded: the free movement of the soul to acquire or avoid something is at will. ”
This concept is important in a society marked by fatigue and anxiety, since every will must be satisfied immediately, just to exemplify, despite the prohibition it is common to see people who immediately consume the product they are buying in supermarkets or sales stores.
It is in a way, among many others, the so-called “malaise of modernity”, reaches the human being in the most intimate sense of life, not only the social, but reaching the social.
In confessions he states: “Evil is not only a deprivation, it is a deprivation that resides in a good as in its subject”, that is, a direct relation between object and subject, in other words: “the object of desire” the will is human.
Thus, we are led to make a reasoning of Augustine, free will is characterized as a medium good whose nature is good, but whose effect may be evil or good, according to the way in which man uses it, so evil does not resides in the object, but in its use.
Thus the metaphysical-ontological evil, which was already present in Augustine’s writings, refers to human contingency and finitude, imperfection and lack of harmony in the environment that we have our will, from the history to the human-existential context.
