Social trends, changes, and debates that shape community life.
I. Introduction “The last capitalist we hang will be the one who sold us the rope.” This phrase, often attributed to Karl Marx—though it does not appear verbatim in his major works—has long served as a metaphor for capitalism’s built‑in tendency toward self‑destruction. In this article, the “rope” is understood as control over the global […]
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I. Rethinking Power as a Universal Human Condition Throughout history, power has been defined in very different ways. For Aristotle[i], it was the potential oriented toward a natural end: every being tends to realize its telos. Hobbes[ii] conceived it as the capacity to impose one’s own will upon others, the foundation of the social contract,
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I. The origins of the religious notion Religion is as old as humanity. From the moment human beings raised their gaze to the sky and wondered about the origin of thunder, rain, or death, the need arose to explain the inexplicable. The first human groups, organized in tribes, found in religion a language to name
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