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pontificia universidad católica de puerto rico
de la arrogancia del conocimiento, pues cada vez que el
hombre se siente poderoso y dueño de la verdad absoluta
ocurre una desgracia que nos hace reconocer nuestras
limitaciones y que, aun la ciencia, siempre está al borde de
lo desconocido.
Caramba, tanto estudiar para ahora saber que no hay
nada seguro…
También nos recordó que la justicia es una cualidad
universal del hombre y que es parte del equipaje biológico
de cada persona.
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Añadió que el ser humano es el único
animal que trata de unificar sus deseos individuales y su
responsabilidad social, es un solitario social.
Nos puso a pensar que el Derecho nos es un campo
único de los abogados, sino instrumento esencial de la
humanidad. Este pensamiento abrió nuestros ojos a
que tenemos un mundo de experiencias donde podemos
absolute knowledge, with no test in reality, this is how they behave. This is what
men do when they aspire to the knowledge of the Gods.
Science is a very human form of knowledge. We are always at the brink of the
unknown, we always feel forward for what is to be hoped. Every judgment in
science stands at the edge of error, ad it is personal. Science is a tribute to what
we can now know although we are fallible. In the end, the words were said by
Oliver Cromwell: ‘I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you
may me mistaken’. I owe it to my friend Leo Szilard, I owe it as a human being
to the many members of my family who died at Auschwitz, to stand here by
the pond as a survivor and as a witness. We have to cure ourselves of the itch
for absolute knowledge and power. We have to close the distance between the
push-button order and the human act. We have to touch people.
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Id.
en la pág. 411.
Yet justice is universal of all cultures. It is a tightrope that man walks, between
his desire to fulfill his wishes, and his acknowledgement of social responsibility.
No animal is faced with this dilemma: an animal is either social or solitary. Man
alone aspires to the both in one, a social solitary. And to me that is a unique
biological feature. That is the kind of problem that engages in my work on
human specificity, and that I want to discuss.
It is something of a shock to think that justice is part of the biological equipment
of man. And yet it is exactly that thought that took me out of physics into
biology, and that has taught me since that a man’s life, a man’s home, is a proper
place in which to study his biological uniqueness.