Understanding Alienation, Theocentrism, and Humanism

Alienation and Disposition

Alienation or disposition is the phenomenon of eliminating personality, depriving the individual of their personality, or breaking an individual's personality, controlling and overriding their free will to make the person dependent, dictated by another person or organization. The alienated person stays within themselves, absorbed by their social disorientation. It is a process that can be self-induced.

Theocentrism

Theocentrism is the doctrine that God is the center of the universe, all things were created by Him, are directed by Him, and there is no reason to desire anything other than the will of God.

Humanism

Humanism is an intellectual, philological, and philosophical movement closely linked to Europe's cultural Renaissance, which originated in the fourteenth century.

Myth: Anthropocentrism

Anthropocentrism is the irrational explanation that, in terms of epistemology, places the human being as the measure of all things. In ethics, it defends that the interests of human beings are something that should receive moral attention above anything else.

Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis is a method of investigation and cure of mental illness, based on the exploration of unconscious mental processes that we are not consciously aware of.

Soul

Soul: An immaterial and invisible entity that would possess the living and whose properties and characteristics vary according to different philosophical or religious traditions and perspectives.

Superman

Superman: Someone able to generate their own value system.

Nietzsche

Nietzsche harshly criticized Western morality grounded on Christian values and rationalism from Socrates and Plato. The result of these values is, for Nietzsche, a decadent culture that kills life and the authentic human being. Thus, the Judeo-Christian moral forgets the concrete and real because it:

• Places the key to this transcendent life in another world.
• Says that someone from outside the world, God, directs it.
• Uses guilt and punishment to destroy the noblest values of life, such as innocence.
• Exalts herd values: pain, renunciation, resignation, obedience, humility, sacrifice.

The new human being is characterized by:

• A new morality that accepts and exalts life, greatness, and pleasure.
• New human values to be achieved by the will to power to overcome the present state of man and reach the Superman.

_{The Superman is} able to create new values, love life and the world above all, be strong and master of himself to grow and create.

Kant

Kant believed that in the individual there are two opposite dimensions:

• Natural Being: Man is subject to the physical, biological, and mathematical laws of nature. He is, by nature, selfish, individualistic, and unsociable.
• Rational Being: The thinking mind makes him free, able to overcome his natural limitations and choose his own destiny.

This allows him to develop his moral dimension, to know what to do, the goals to be achieved, and how to achieve happiness, which is his ultimate destiny. Knowing that this can only be done in society, he develops as a social being.