Cultura y violencia

Authors

  • Jesús Mosterín
Keywords: aggressiveness, boy-soldier, cruelty, culture, education, guns, inhibition, violence

Abstract

Biological evolution has provided us with inborn aggressiveness, which is the basis of competitiveness and leadership. We also have inborn regulative and inhibitory mechanisms, that control this instinct. When these mechanisms fail, aggressiveness can lead to violence, destruction and death. Culture is the information that we got through social learning (not through genes, like nature); it resides in the brain (not in the genome, like nature). Culture is not always good; it can also lead to suffering and violence. Our natural aggressiveness can be exacerbated by certain cultural influences and ideologies. We analyze in some detail several concrete cases, like the use of guns. And we ask what can be done in order to reduce violence and cruelty in the world.

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Published
03-03-2010
How to Cite
Mosterín, J. (2010). Cultura y violencia. Daimon Revista Internacional de Filosofia, (42), 23–43. Retrieved from https://revistas.um.es/daimon/article/view/95891
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