APRENDER HUMANIDAD

If the world today lacks anything, without a doubt it could do with a little more humanity. Maritain states that the term “humanism” is an ambiguous term, as ambiguous as human relations themselves. Unfortunately, relations between humans have taken on a tragic aspect. The maelstrom that is the so-called “wellbeing society” has made us act as though ethical values in fact have no repercussions. Anything goes, everything’s possible, but the problem is that to reach our own goals we have to trample on other people, without the slightest scruple for the effect we might have on their interests. It’s as though all principles have been thrown out in the name of efficiency. To exaggerate only very slightly, it could be said that we are facing the prospect of having to have a humanist revolution, a way of rebuilding the world along more genuinely humane lines.