Martin Buber
"The humanly correct is therefore the service of the individual who realizes the true individuality that is creatively identical to him. To take direction in the decision therefore means: to take direction from the point of being in which, by carrying out on my part the project that is me, I find my awaited divine mystery of my created individuality." Martin Buber, in Images of the Good and...
A translation and a review
Which, in the face of the Word that is there, can only be a madness of words! Do we open our ears and an obedient soul to the sound of speech that has become Scripture, or do we mix it with the music of our dreams? Do we serve the truth alone, or alternately the truth and demons?
The Bible in German
Repetition is a deep-seated need of human nature; the desire for variety always arises as a consequence. In languages, this manifests itself in such a way that, at a certain stage, it becomes a rule of good style to differentiate the expression whenever possible.
Philosophy
Monotheism and Language
The memory of a common contribution to European civilization throughout the Middle Ages, when Greek texts reached Europe through Jewish translators who translated Arabic...
Signature
This is the situation of consciousness. To have consciousness is to have time, to be beyond nature, in a sense, not to have been born yet. Such a break does not imply an inferior being, but...
Social Science and Humanism
Treating social science with a humanist spirit means returning from the abstractions or constructions of scientific social science to social reality, looking at social phenomena primarily from the perspective of...
The category of relation as an object of logic in Thomas Aquinas
The theme of this article is the predicamental category of relation in Thomas Aquinas, so that an understanding of the object of logic, which is a certain relation, can be...
Economy
Spaceship Earth and Kenneth Boulding's Ecological Economics
The circular ecological theory of economist Kenneth Boulding (1910-1993), expressed in his metaphor of "Spaceship Earth", is defined as a self-reproducing living organism that carries out exchange interactions between man...
Is Economic Growth Finite? Georgescu-Roegen's Entropic Pessimism
Are we heading towards a catastrophic exhaustion of productive capacities in the future? The physical-thermodynamic law of entropy, with its pessimistic paradigm of nature's gradual energy decline, poses a serious challenge to...
Brazil: a Portuguese-speaking giant still ignored by the Galician economy
Lusophony encompasses a territory that makes up an important part of the global population and economy, and has great cultural and linguistic affinities with Galicia. Lusophony, which totals more than...
The role of socio-cultural traditions in economic development
The neoclassical theory of economic development, formulated by Robert Solow in the 1940s and 1950s, emphasized quantitative factors such as savings, education and innovation. This approach disregards the influence of...
Culture & Society
Being Western
Under the cloak of mystery, psychologists, historians or sociologists manage to rediscover the remains of a primitive mentality... I don't understand why today's irrationalists pride themselves on having eliminated...
8 reasons to study the psychology of the Bible
Anyone who studies the psychology of the Bible comes across something sacred in their life. He connects with the deepest understanding of ancient thought, which...
What is culture?
To learn about a people's culture is to take a journey into ourselves, into our collective unconscious. Our original ground and source. This is the only way to...
What is environmentalism? (Part II)
All the centuries-old efforts of men to make inland Brazil "be felt with the hands", in the words of Juscelino Kubitschek, were transformed into a diagnosis made by foreign bankers...
Iberian Studies
Parallels between Galicia and the Brazilian Northeast
The north-eastern region of Brazil has many historical, social and cultural similarities with Galicia, a territory in north-western Spain. Both peoples of the respective countries share a history...
What is Galician reintegrationism?
Since the beginning of the modern era, with the formation of European national states, the territory of Galicia in Spain has had the great misfortune of finding itself in the crossfire between...
Eduardo Maragoto: "The Portuguese language must be taught, heard and read in Galicia"
Galician reintegrationism, which is still little known in Portugal, strives to ensure that Galician, the co-official language of Galicia, converges with Portuguese, mainly by adopting its orthography,...
Discovering the Thought of Vicente Risco in Galicia: A Brazilian Perspective
Vicente Risco was an important Galician thinker, anthropologist and writer who contributed to the appreciation and preservation of Galician culture and language. A critic of modernity, he promoted a spiritualist perspective of anthropology...
Political Analysis
The Crisis of Our Time
This is, in fact, the core of modern science, of modern social science as it has finally developed over the last two generations: the distinction between facts and values, with the...
The Europe-United States Transatlantic Alliance
The transatlantic alliance between Europe and the United States, consolidated after the Second World War through military and economic agreements such as NATO (1949) and the Marshall Plan (1949-1952),...
The formation of the State of Israel and the origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict
The following article is an attempt to formulate the basis of the formation of the modern Jewish state both from its origin as a European movement of Zionism - giving it...
Baron Rio Branco and Americanism in the foreign policy of the First Republic
The following article aims to briefly analyze the role of José Maria da Silva Paranhos - better known as the Baron of Rio Branco - in the...
Literature & Art
On Graciliano Ramos' "Vidas Secas" - some brief notes
In "Vidas Secas", Fabiano represents a man whose imagination has been stunted by a lack of culture, a lack of access to education, knowledge and books.
"Y sin embargo te quiero": tragic love in Copla Andaluza
The Andalusian copla, a lyrical and tragic musical expression, reveals a vision of love as absolute surrender, opposed to contemporary ideals of self-sufficiency. In these works, and through the pain and...
Some Notes on the Essence of Haiku
Haiku cannot be understood without understanding the basic premises of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition
Agesilaus Santander
Paul Klee's Angelus Novus, a unique etching made with oil transfer and watercolor in 1920, depicts a seraphim at once fearsome and fragile: floating, terrified, heading towards...
Critical Review
Edward Said's Orientalism
The work Orientalism (1978), by the Arab-Palestinian historian Edward Said, sets out to investigate the genesis of the term Orientalism and the way in which the Orient has been represented in the culture and imaginary...
Wilhelm Röpke's social market economy
Wilhelm Röpke (1899-1966), a German economist and historian, was a prominent conservative liberal and one of the founders of the European social market economy. His work The Social Crisis of His Time...
The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce
More than an apology for modern bourgeois society, Deirdre McCloskey's work is an important source of reflection on the current state of our society, serving as a warning to...
How to be a Great Artist according to Étienne Gilson
What makes an artistic work great and beautiful? In Introduction to the Arts of Beauty, French philosopher Étienne Gilson invites us to reflect on the nature of...
