ASPECTS OF HUMAN NATURE:
COMMENTS ABOUT THE HUMAN BEING AND ITS CONDITION
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https://doi.org/10.7443/problemata.v14i3.67530Keywords:
Human nature, Human condition, Tolerance, Capitalism, FreedomAbstract
This article analyzes aspects of human nature and its condition, based on the philosophical arguments by Baruch Spinoza, who demonstrates that the human being must leave imaginative knowledge and evolve to knowledge of the second and third kind, where these teach us to distinguish the true from the false, empowering our life in existence, in other words, knowing the aspects through causes (essence) and not through the effect (imagination). Beyond the arguments by Erich Fromm, whose thinking is based on the vision of the human in capitalist society and their mental health, and by Karl R. Popper, in his philosophy of mind and in his exposition of the paradox of tolerance, following the chronological order of these philosophers, starting from modern philosophy to contemporary philosophy. Therefore, for that purpose, this work was built from a bibliographic research, that has the characteristic of analyzing and building new paradigms based on theses that have already been worked on diligently. Based on this, it was concluded that only autonomy achieved through knowledge enables freedom and only social agreements constructed by individuals guided by moral responsibility can guarantee its maintenance.
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