Lake Tahoe | Our own Jail: Pragmatismo vs. Ideas
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El pragmatismo es una escuela filosófica creada en los Estados Unidos a finales del siglo XIX por Charles Sanders Peirce, John Dewey y William James. Su concepción de base es que sólo es verdadero aquello que funciona, enfocándose así en el mundo real objetivo.
Se caracteriza por la insistencia en las consecuencias como manera de caracterizar la verdad o significado de las cosas. El pragmatismo se opone a la visión de que los conceptos humanos y el intelecto representan el significado real de las cosas, y por lo tanto se contrapone a las escuelas filosóficas del formalismo y el racionalismo. También el pragmatismo sostiene que sólo en el debate entre organismos dotados de inteligencia y con el ambiente que los rodea es donde las teorías y datos adquieren su significado. Rechaza la existencia de verdades absolutas, las ideas son provisionales y están sujetas al cambio a la luz de la investigación futura.
Ahora les dejo una nota más que interesante sobre la envidia causada en Redes Sociales y la competitividad frente a la envidia que puede causar: "Creo que podemos llevar este ejemplo a todas las disciplinas".
¿La envidia es nuestro peor enemigo según Fast Company?
Is it possible something similar is now happening to the rest of us, as a result of the e-social revolution and the dramatic increase in transparency that it is generating? While it’s human nature to be social and want to help others, we also have a natural tendency to be competitive, envious, and jealous of others. It is our nature to evaluate our own lives in relative terms. I’m happier when things improve for me relative to how they used to be, but I’m also happier when things seem better for me than for my neighbor. And social media platforms now allow me to make much more direct comparisons.
Think about it: We compete to have the most Twitter followers, the most LinkedIn connections, the coolest status updates, the most interesting Facebook friends, the cutest pictures, or the funniest videos. We compete to display our own knowledge and insight, because--at some level--we want to display better knowledge and insight than others.
Not convinced yet? Consider the way games and contests are being used now, in the e-social era. "Gamification" now motivates many people to live healthier lives, to succeed in their diets, and even to consume less power at home. Marketers use gamification to sell products and engage customers in more active relationships. And gamification may soon revolutionize education, just when we think the current system is irretrievably broken.
Not convinced yet? Consider the way games and contests are being used now, in the e-social era. "Gamification" now motivates many people to live healthier lives, to succeed in their diets, and even to consume less power at home. Marketers use gamification to sell products and engage customers in more active relationships. And gamification may soon revolutionize education, just when we think the current system is irretrievably broken.
If you think about it, the concept of a free-market economy itself is a kind of gamification of human production. Yes, we’re all happy when we make more money, but we’re happiest when we make more money than others. Just ask any CEO.
Competition can be a marvelous thing, but envy is its dark side. And before you condemn CEOs for such envy, ask yourself first whether you’re part of the 1% or the 99%.
¿Envidia o competencia? ¿En qué quedamos?
El observar o reconocer que algunas situaciones o personas provocan envidia es "positivo", ya que ayuda a reflexionar sobre los propios recursos y con ello aceptar nuestras propias limitaciones.
La admiración a determinadas personas, no significa tenerles envidia, es saber valorarlas y valorarse.
En qué quedamos... En nada, hay que seguir pensando.
