Arquivo para January 15th, 2025
The peace of those who love
15
Jan
I give you peace, but not as the world gives,
says biblical wisdom (John 14:27), and what kind of peace this is, it is clearly not what we call peace between nations and peoples.
We have already mentioned here, the so-called Iberian peace, in Sassanid (527-531), which became without return to war, and in dark periods for human peace it would be altruism or innocence to think of peace
Say what you think, maintain coherence in actions and words, justice and values are not only valid for your group or nation, they must be coherent values that are practical always and with everyone, independent of narratives and political and social polarities, it is necessary to have wisdom in what you say and prudence in what you do, And the pure release of feelings is not healthy and requires a dose of empathy and love from those who always do.
If you correct, correct for love, if you remain silent, be silent for love, it is often wise to be silent, and it does not always mean indifference or omission, it is also wisdom and prudence, the virtues that we have already discussed here and that were treated with propriety by the philosopher Philippa Foot.
Love contains all the virtues, but the word has been emptied in contemporaneity, it is even synonymous with hypocrisy and exclusion, evil is done and “I did it for love”, so it is necessary today to understand the other virtues that are embedded in true love.
There is also the appeal to ignorance, more than an appeal there is a lack of knowledge, misinformation is just a consequence of the lack of wisdom, and it is not just on one side of the narrative.
Modern narratives are in fashion, social media tools help to propagate them with quick reasoning and phrases, it is just a matter of denying what the Other says, it is the result of a long process of ignorance.
The peace we long for is the peace of love, but it must come containing the cardinal virtues: justice (the divine), prudence, temperance and courage (fortitude).
