Voces de la democracia

Este libro constituye tanto una introducción al pensamiento de Krishnamurti como una selección antológica de textos desde su juventud hasta su madurez, complementada con interesantes extractos de sus diarios personales.

Si la doctrina de los derechos humanos se ha convertido en la única referencia legítima para ordenar el mundo humano y guiar la vida social e individual, la ley natural -observa el autor- "se caracteriza por haber sido desacreditada de manera radical por la filosofía moderna y por ser hoy objeto de desprecio unánime por parte de la opinión ilustrada", de manera que ha quedado excluida del debate público por su presunto arcaísmo y porque constituiría un obstáculo para el reconocimiento y la puesta en práctica de los derechos humanos. Expulsada al pasado o confinada a una tradición...

The book consists of 5 chapters with 5 subchapters each. In the first chapter entitled "Civilization: Origin and Evolution" we present the details of the events that led to the construction of civilization: the Neolithic revolution, the events towards civilization, the first civilizations, the evolution of writing and science. In the second chapter "Wealth" we talked about how with the development of agriculture and breeding, trade, economics, finance and capitalism. The third chapter "The Power" talks about the origin of power, religion and power, wars, government and people. In the fourth...

Are we prepared to accept a human species that s been technologically improved through a radical transformation of its natural conditions? Is the irreversible transition from human to post-human already taking place? The authors, advocating a distinctly 21st-century humanism, offer an open and critical introduction to this technological shift, to transhumanism, and to the incorporation of the human body into emerging technologies such as nano and biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and robotics."