Essay On Embodied Solidarity

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Mahatma Gandhi once said, “be the change that you want to see in the world”. In order to fix the world problems we must fix ourselves. Dr. Larycia Hawkins uses the metaphor zombies to refer to all the people around the world because humans have the same goals as zombies. A zombie wants to infected humans because they crave the uninfected human flesh, while humans are constantly ending the lives of others to get their points across. In order for all people in the world to help each other they need to stop looking for violations of human rights and look for embodied solidarity. In the fifth book of Plato’s Republic, Plato discusses that women should have equal education as men, but still states that they will remain inferior to men within their categories. M. Scott Peck writes People Lie: The hope for healing human evil, an article on how humans have learned to be evil and kill in order to survive. In a world where people fight
Larycia Hawkins lectures a TED talk on, The Gospel and the Meaning of Embodied Solidarity. Dr. Hawkins (2016) visited Rwanda in 2014 a third world country that is currently 20 years post war. In Rwanda she saw lots of bones and skulls of people who were killed at war. She felt so ashamed that these things happened to these people who were fighting for their “human rights”. She then phrases the question “do we see humans or do we see zombies?” Zombies are what she refers to as people who believe in human rights, which are the political economy, while they should be thinking about embodied solidarity. In the category of zombies there are also subcategories in which we have religious zombies, political zombies and so on. Embodied solidarity in the words of Dr. Hawkins refers to humans who look who have a shifted paradigm, changed their position, change in posture and a change in perspective. In order for a person to achieve all four they must be able to ask themselves am I willing to forgive and am I seeing with the eyes of my

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