Todos los seres vivos tienen un objetivo o una tendencia en la vida. La de los humanos es mucho más complicada que la de los animales y requiere de constante investigación científica y filosófica, ya que dicha tendencia puede llegar a variar. A través de los años, varios filósofos como Aristóteles han tratado de dar una definición a qué es lo que nos hace humanos. Al mismo tiempo, muchos ecuatorianos nos hemos preguntado qué es ser mestizo y qué consecuencias nos trae ese hecho. El objetivo de este ensayo será intentar definir qué es lo que nos hace humanos, enfocándonos en los textos de Bauman, Mill y Aristóteles y también tratar de responder la pregunta sobre nuestra descendencia.
La definición que escribió Aristóteles parece la más precisa y lógica. Él decía que todo tiende hacia un bien y que el bien es aquello hacia lo que todas las cosas tienden. Nos habla sobre los fines y nos define que estos son actividades que realizamos para llegar a la felicidad. En resumen, Aristóteles nos dice que todo lo que el hombre haga en la vida, cualquier acción que realice siempre será para llegar a un bien. Al decir todo esto, estamos de una u otra forma definiendo a la identidad humana, ya que, en esencia, es a lo que la humanidad tiende, y según Aristóteles es el bien. (Aristóteles, 1998: pp. 131-149)
La identidad humana busca el bien y la felicidad y por eso básicamente todo lo que hacemos en la vida, por todo lo que nos esforzamos, los estudios, el trabajo, etc. es para obtener un buen estatus económico, y con ello alimentarnos, disfrutar de lujos, nuevas experiencias, entre otros. Básicamente buscamos nuevas experiencias constantemente ya que disfrutamos mucho de ellas, muchos creen que estas se consiguen con una gran cantidad de di...
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...ría piensa, sino que nos trajo nuevas costumbres, mejoró varias técnicas de agricultura y producción, nos impartió una religión que hoy felizmente la mayoría creemos y mejoró la raza.
Works Cited
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Identidad humana:
Aristóteles. (1998) Ética Nicomáquea Ética Eudemia: Sobre la felicidad. Madrid: Gredos.
Bauman, Z. (2006) Comunidad: La Agonía de Tántalo. Madrid: Siglo XXI.
Mill, J. (2008) Sobre la libertad. Madrid: El libro de bolsillo.
Identidad mestiza:
Watson, P. (2013). La Mente "INDIA": las ideas en el nuevo mundo. En IDEAS "HISTORIA INTELECTUAL DE LA HUMANIDAD". España: EGEDSA
Apolo, M. (2011) Los mestizos ecuatorianos y las senias de identidad cultural. Madrid: Tramasocial.
Tomaselli, L. (2008) Ciudadanos vs canibales: la construccion de la identidad mestiza.
Echeverría, B. (2011) Discurso Crítico y Modernidad. Bogotá: desde abajo
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