Joint statement by and against the war in Ukraine

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Today, more than ever, it is essential to keep in mind the founding principles of Europe: peace, democracy and solidarity” Workers Commissions and the General Union of Workers reiterate their "strongest condemnation of the Russian invasion of Ukraine." "This cowardly and illegitimate act of war and the consequent war must stop immediately. Likewise, we express our solidarity with the people of Ukraine and especially with its working class, with the victims in the country and with the Ukrainian workers residing in Spain and who live with pain the drama of war in the distance," they say. Both unions call on workers to demonstrate silently on WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, at the entrance to their workplaces from to thus showing solidarity with the people of Ukraine, calling for an end to the fire and the immediate withdrawal of Russian troops from the country.my thoughts for some time here after the visit to my institute by a couple of members of an association of university seniors from the city of Granada.



Seemed like a good idea to accept their offer to come to my Citizenship and Human Rights Education classes to share with my fourteen-year-old students their life experience of people from a generation born in the decade after the end of the Spanish Civil War. Listening to them, one confirms that, indeed, there has been progress; For example, with regard to education, giving us Guatemala Mobile Number List testimony of their school years, which many children and young people of their generation could not enjoy or did so barely and always under the ominous weight of ideological and religious obscurantism; not to mention in the aspect of material well-being. His analysis of the present time unquestionably demonstrated the relevance of the generational perspective when composing a vision of reality. I consider very valuable the idea of ​​perspective that was highlighted by the only Spanish philosopher who achieved some international renown in the middle of the last century, José Ortega y Gasset . Committed to modern rationality, the norm of the Enlightenment and theoretically linked in it with progress, Ortega incorporates the historical and vital dimension into reason.







Life, which is intrinsically historical, is the starting point of the thinking of human beings, a life that is the experience of concrete existence, defined by the set of circumstances that constitute it (hence his famous phrase: "I am me." and my circumstance"). This means that there is no real subject that is not concrete, that is, that does not exist in a (historical) space and time. It is what reality imposes on it for its existence, so there can be no knowledge of things without perspective, which necessarily consists of a historical dimension. What is happening to this country with the Catholic Church? In the daily struggle that each person carries out, it is rare that that component to which the philosopher grants value is taken into account. Surely one of the effects of our current historical perspective is the illusion that we find ourselves in a kind of privileged place thanks to our scientific-technological development from which we judge past eras with disdainful superiority. Using one of the images that Ortega uses in his essay The theme of our time, we are like spectators of a landscape who make the mistake of thinking that the particular point of view we have of it offers us objective access to the truth that no one else has.

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