Reforestation: Is it possible a spring in the West?
02
Apr
Martha Nussbaum is the author of this idea, to which a
reforestation is possible, I like this idea not because of the foundation that the author has in classical antiquity, in fact the rebirth was a promising phase of humanity, but gave in liberalism and idealism, which are correlates, then what was lacking in rebirth? I think some disruption.
It is a fact that modern justice is based on the theses of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and ultimately Kant, and then updated with Smith Bentham and Mill, but Amartya Sen a co-author with Martha Nussbaum of a work on justice, lists three characteristics of what they call “transcendental institutionalism” (very appropriate, by the way):
– firstly, because the idea of thinking of an ideal situation that can promote a reasoned and impartial agreement makes the theory of justice fall into a factuality of an agreement (nothing more idealistic of course)- the exercise of practical reason invites us to reflect on which are viable alternatives for the promotion of justice, and this does not mean (the facts prove) to overcome the inequalities.
The authors guide us to realize the sense that riches as a means lead us to have more freedom to live the life we value, and this means expansion of capacities.
We have to value the actions that enable us to become more complete human beings, and that enable us mainly to be protagonists of the world today.
It is necessary first of all that we understand it well, there is no way to do this without knowledge, but knowledge of the cultures and of the human beings who own the cultures.
I am 14 days in Portugal, at the same time so close and so far, I have faced situations and words that I do not know, expressions of contentment and repulsion that I did not know, I understood in my skin what is meant by “culture shock”, but I found a lot in common, what I have come to call “portuguese paternity” (of Brazilian, of course).
The approach to the training of Martha Nussbaum and Amartya Sen seemed to me much more appropriate, for although I have the resources to survive in Portugal, I lack the culture and the means necessary for a reasonable human conviviality with a near and distant culture.
Nearby language, by many habits and even dictates and expressions common with Portugal, but distant because it is a dense culture, more rooted for almost a millennium of existence, that already had an imperialist and expansionist phase, a taxi driver that was in Angola and Mozambique confided to me: I was always a foreigner there, even though I knew the culture.
In order to replenish a world education, education for diversity of cultures and nations.
Its Spring in Lisbon, Portugal, but has a rapid rain (aguaceiros named here) and it´s cool for any days.
NUSSBAUM, M. “Capabilities as Fundamental Entitlements: Sen and Social Justice,” Feminist Economics, 9(2/3), 2003, p. 33–59.
