Declararon muerto el humanismo, pero late vivo en los corazones de las gentes como el ingrediente imprescindible para el futuro de este mundo nuestro deshumanizado.
“No society known to human history has ever existed which has not been governed by power and authority” (Edward W. Said, The World, the Text and the Critic, 1983 Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, p.168)
Are you European? No regrets!
It is only healthy to recognize today that European humanism,
as fruit of its times, had its dark side as an instrument
in the hands of the powerful and as an active promoter
of oppression and colonialism worldwide.
Nuevo siglo: el humanismo, siempre el mismo,
pero siempre imprescindiblemente distinto al de antaño.
Surely you are not only a European. You are also the same
as everybody else. Worldly European, so to say.
¡Sí, hacer comidas! ¡Cuchara de palo! ¡Gastronomía!
For cookery is a pure expression of the ultimate essence of the humanist spirit:
provide humans with that which best uplifts human tastes.
Today humanism lies in the inescapable recognizance
of our plural flavours where earlier forms rather forcibly
sought after the quasi-methaphisical construct of human nature.
en el corazón de las gentes
Today’s cosmopolitan humanism lives directly at the heart
of the persons themselves as much as on libraries and opera houses, if not more.
cosmopolitan and democratic
El humanismo hoy es cosmopolita y democrático,
de las personas comunes, de ahí donde siempre palpita
lo más granado de la virtud humana.