Sep 20, 2009

Pobres, dignos, intelectuales?

"From the beginnings of recorded thought, intellectuals have told us their activity is most valuable. Plato valued the rational faculty above courage and the appetites and deemed that philosophers should rule; Aristotle held that intellectual contemplation was the highest activity. It is not surprising that surviving texts record this high evaluation of intellectual activity. The people who formulated evaluations, who wrote them down with reasons to back them up, were intellectuals, after all. They were praising themselves. Those who valued other things more than thinking things through with words, whether hunting or power or uninterrupted sensual pleasure, did not bother to leave enduring written records. Only the intellectual worked out a theory of who was best."
De "Why do Intellectuals oppose Capitalism", de Robert Nozick

Está en los links, me parece muy relacionado al tema de que "el dinero no hace la felicidad"

Digamos que tiene mucho de "La zorra y las uvas"

O de "La Venganza de los Nerds"

2 comments:

  1. Hay quienes dicen que el ocaso de los griegos se debió, entre otras cosas, al desprecio por el trabajo manual (era para los esclavos) y su adoración por el trabajo intelectual.

    Hablando de los nerds, la discriminación y el menosprecio hacia nerds y geeks quizás tiene la misma componente de la fábula de la zorra y las uvas. Y coincido, en la santificación de la pobreza hay mucho de eso por no poder o haber podido hacer dinero.

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  2. Coincido plenamente. Ese artículo es una joya de punta a punta.

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