En anterior publicación me ocupé de la vigencia de la Filosofía estoica nacida en el siglo III A.C fundada por Zenón de Citio, (Chipre, en ese tiempo antigua colonia helénica).
Lo hice pensando en los acontecimientos de nuestro tiempo, de un tiempo revolucionario y un cambio de cultura.
Resulta complejo abordar la realidad. Los intelectuales poseen tantas miradas como pensadores existen. Unos hablan de "la era del odio", "del neoliberalismo", "neoglobalización", "la era del caos", "la era del rendimiento"; "la época del cansancio", la lista es infinita. Desde la sencillez del pensamiento y pura observación agrego: vivimos en "la era de la repetición", (se copia, se imita y se compite a la vez); del hiperindividualismo y de la indiferencia. No nos reconocemos como "los otros".
La palabra va por un lado; los hechos por otro. La palabra va sustituyéndose por imágenes, emoticonos y finalmente por la inteligencia artificial.
En contraposición surgen nuevos fenómenos, nuevas voces, por eso el Filósofo francés Pierre Dardot (París 1922, "La memoria del futuro", "El ser neoliberal") habla de "revolución civil".
En su libro, "Ensayo sobre la revolución en el siglo XXI"), Dardot y Christian Laval sostienen que en todo el mundo, hay movimientos que desafían la apropiación de recursos naturales, espacios y servicios públicos, conocimiento y redes de comunicación por parte de una pequeña oligarquía. Todas estas luchas plantean la misma demanda y se basan en el mismo principio: lo común. Pierre Dardot y Christian Laval demuestran por qué este principio es ahora el término central de la alternativa política del siglo XXI.
Ésta es una de las miradas, una de las interpretaciones mirando hacia el futuro que nos deben interpelar como sociedad global. Una comunidad global que comienza a desdibujarse.
El Hombre es el único animal que se proyecta. Es el animal racional. Entre razón, lógica y metafísica hay quiénes hoy en esa proyección regresan al Estoicismo como un mecanismo de defensa ante el avance de la desesperanza, incertidumbre y el horror.
He querido retomar la publicación anterior donde sostenía que dicha corriente del pensamiento antiguo re surgía como "una píldora sanadora":
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Para ello he acudido al Académico uruguayo; Profesor Pablo Romero García de reconocida trayectoria docente, conferencista, escritor y autoridad en diversos organismos del Estado vinculados al área social.°
A: - In accelerated times, of self-exploitation of subjects, of being sunk in hyperindividualism, of taking selfies to the navel, of the reign of stress, anxiety, depression and uncertainty, of stuffed societies, stoicism has been reborn as a philosophy of individual and collective healing, proposing lines of reflection and action to address the existential difficulties of our postmodern society, clearly outlining what can really be under our control of what escapes us and does not depend on us, fostering, building, an attitude where acceptance and serenity prevails, principles that stoicism has for Flag. His advice for everyday life, accessible to everyone, without the need to try to decipher languages and complex philosophical concepts, prioritize internal control, moving away negative thoughts and increasing empathy, highlighting the importance of self-reflection and the management of emotions.
A: - From what I have seen, social networks have played a key role in the resurgence of stoicism, notably facilitating its diffusion, making its main ideas accessible to a mass public. Numerous digital communities have been generated, online groups that share and dialogue from stoic advice.
Q: WHAT SOCIALLY EFFECT CAN IT BRING IN THIS HISTORICAL TIME OF UNCERTAINTIES?
A: - Its effects are clearly positive. In a society marked by uncertainty and focused on the merely material as the only point of search for relative stability to which a person can aspire, stoicism returns to proclaim the detachment from the material and the importance of focusing on the essential, finding ourselves from those values that are really worth it, finding a deep and authentic meaning for our existence. The stoic search for a valuable, authentic purpose, far from the material, from exacerbated consumption, from the superficial, from light and fast life, is key in our time.
A: - Definitely, it seems that he has come to stay for a long time. Even its popularization from figures of massive arrival, such as that of the recently deceased José "Pepe" Mujica, (former President of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay) who declared himself philosophically in the line of the stocism, have sparked an interest that comes in marked rise at the planetary level. It seems that Zeno, Crisipus, Epictetus, Seneca and Marcus Aurelius, among others, have landed in the 21st century to stay here for a long time and give us proper advice to live more wisely.
Q: DO YOUNG PEOPLE TALK ABOUT THIS PHILOSOPHICAL CURRENT OR, ON THE CONTRARY, DO THEY VENTURE INTO A SMALL CIRCLE?
A: - From my direct experience in the classroom with teenagers, with young high school students and the university, I would say that it is practically the only philosophical current that they manage to moderately locate. As I said before, social networks are playing a central role in this sense, much more important than that of educational institutions, where stoicism is not always addressed even in the curricular courses of Philosophy. However, and despite its greater "media" presence, it is still a very small circle that really lands in an analysis of stoicism.
A: - It's really costing a lot to look inward, the determined interest in knowing yourself, in navigating inward. It is one of the main difficulties that one visualizes among the new generations. Hence the importance of stoicism, of course. -
° Uruguayan academic; Professor of the Instituto Profesores Artigas, Specialist in Education Policy and Management, (CLAEH, Latin American Center for Human Economy). Professor of Argumentation, Professor of Ethics, Professor of Philosophy of Culture, Advisor in State divisions on public ethics issues; lecturer, Vice President of the Philosophical Association of Uruguay, Director of the Arje Cultural Project.
Publications: "On the sense of educating", Editorial Pinguin Random House, 2021.