{"id":3117185,"date":"2005-05-01T00:00:36","date_gmt":"2005-05-01T04:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.friendsjournal.org\/reflexionando-sobre-coleridge\/"},"modified":"2005-05-01T00:00:36","modified_gmt":"2005-05-01T04:00:36","slug":"reflexionando-sobre-coleridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.friendsjournal.org\/es\/reflexionando-sobre-coleridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflexionando sobre Coleridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Me parece sensato y humano creer, con pruebas leves, opiniones cuyo contrario no se puede demostrar, y que promueven nuestra felicidad sin obstaculizar nuestro intelecto.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014James Taylor Coleridge<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Para m\u00ed, no hay un anciano en el cielo dirigiendo las cosas. Dios es simplemente una met\u00e1fora y una personalizaci\u00f3n de \u2014para citar a un conocido m\u00edo\u2014 \u201clos conceptos del bien y del mal&#8230; con los que cada uno de nosotros nace\u00bb. <\/p>\n<p>\u00bfPor qu\u00e9 nacemos con esa percepci\u00f3n? En parte, supongo, porque la evoluci\u00f3n ha hecho de esa percepci\u00f3n una receta para el \u00e9xito evolutivo. Algunos soci\u00f3logos (y otros expertos) estar\u00edan de acuerdo. Me parece que las personas no nacen con la capacidad de elegir, bas\u00e1ndose en motivos puramente racionales, los patrones de comportamiento que son necesarios para la supervivencia de la especie, porque esos patrones van en contra de los objetivos ego\u00edstas de los individuos. Por lo tanto (como espero que Charles Darwin haya dicho en alguna parte), las sociedades exitosas han tenido que producir individuos altruistas.    <\/p>\n<p>Debido a la capacidad de razonar de las personas (y al deseo concomitante de explicarlo todo), hemos desarrollado la noci\u00f3n del bien y del mal porque es necesaria para la supervivencia de la especie. Dado que no es probable que las personas se comporten bien simplemente por reconocer que el altruismo es necesario para la supervivencia de la especie, hemos inventado el concepto de Dios. Por supuesto, recuerdas a Edmund en El rey Lear, quien proclama: \u201cT\u00fa, Naturaleza, eres mi diosa\u00bb. Este concepto le permite cometer los cr\u00edmenes m\u00e1s atroces. Edmund repudiar\u00eda la advertencia de Coleridge, y los religiosos tambi\u00e9n la repudiar\u00edan, alegando que no requiere una creencia en Dios o en poderes divinos.    <\/p>\n<p>La declaraci\u00f3n de Coleridge ha tenido una gran influencia en m\u00ed. En mi opini\u00f3n, corrobora el concepto de que es m\u00e1s importante buscar lo que es bueno que lo que es verdadero. Este enfoque instrumental para decidir c\u00f3mo actuar me lleva a la conclusi\u00f3n de que debemos basar nuestro comportamiento en conceptos que conduzcan a lo que concebimos como \u201cbueno\u00bb, a expensas, si es necesario, de lo que creemos que es verdadero. Esta es una forma prolija de decir (y ampliar) lo que Coleridge dice en la cita anterior.   <\/p>\n<p>Creo que es dif\u00edcil practicar esta creencia con \u00e9xito. Desafortunadamente, en la pr\u00e1ctica proporciona la justificaci\u00f3n para un comportamiento que, en opini\u00f3n de otros (a menudo muchos otros), es malo. No s\u00e9 c\u00f3mo salir de esto, excepto para decir que el cuaquerismo me atrae porque proporciona un medio, a trav\u00e9s de su modo de adoraci\u00f3n, para que el individuo decida, a trav\u00e9s de la meditaci\u00f3n, cu\u00e1l es el comportamiento correcto, una met\u00e1fora de la cual es \u201cla voluntad de Dios\u00bb.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Me parece sensato y humano creer, con pruebas leves, opiniones cuyo contrario no se puede demostrar, y que promueven nuestra&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":652,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9799],"tags":[11603,11475,11512],"fpb_issue_category":[],"class_list":["post-3117185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cronicas","tag-autorrealizacion","tag-comentario","tag-teologia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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