Understanding Human Behavior, Intelligence, and Ethics

Types of Imbeciles

The word moron comes from Latin and means baculus (walking stick); the fool is the one who needs walking sticks. There are several types of imbeciles to choose from:

• The Indifferent: Thinks he wants nothing and says everything is indifferent.
• The Impulsive: Thinks she wants everything, the first thing that presents itself, and otherwise.
• The Ignorant: Does not know what they want or why, and does not bother to find out.
• The Fearful: Wants and knows what they want, but wants it weakly, with fear and little force.
• The Aggressive: Wants with force and ferocity in a barbaric way.

Intelligence and Emotional Awareness

Intelligence is the ability to direct our behavior to deal successfully with new situations and relate to the environment. However, intelligence does not only handle knowledge. In fact, learning to recognize and use feelings and emotions is very important for addressing problems in our life.

Emotional intelligence is the ability to manage our moods, feelings, and emotions to relate positively and effectively with others. The human being has at least eight different intelligences, each developed at a particular level:

• Musical
• Bodily-Kinesthetic (body movement)
• Linguistic
• Logical-Mathematical
• Spatial
• Interpersonal
• Intrapersonal
• Naturalist

Conditions for Personal Development

The necessary ethical conditions for a person to develop fully include respect for dignity, equality, and freedom for all humans:

• Dignity: Having minimal material and social conditions to enable a decent life, while considering the person as an end in themselves, not a means to an end.
• Equality: Implies equal relationships with people in the environment without discrimination based on sex, race, religion, politics, or otherwise.
• Freedom: Implies that the person can make responsible decisions without coercion or external conditions.

Morality and Ethics

Morality is the set of behaviors, attitudes, and values passed down by tradition within a human group, requiring adherence from all its members. Morality guides our actions and indicates the rightness or wrongness of an action.

Ethics is a philosophical reflection based on critical analysis and reason regarding the appropriateness of various moral standards, as well as the training of character through the acquisition of habits and customs.

Ethical Reflection

• Critical Analysis: Subjecting our own moral standards and those of others to criticism. This exercise provides reasonable ideas.
• Self-Reflection: Reflecting on one's life to find its sense.
• Argumentation: Finding reasons why we advocate for an idea. Ethical reflection requires us to take responsibility for our views and defend them with arguments.