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FOREWORD This volume includes many articles, notes, lectures ,
speeches and philosophical reflections of Albert Einstein, who sometimes rub
scientific problems, but in mostly relate to
hot topics of his day, of which ours is a continuation.
Therein lies the value of these works, almost all short, but substantial
. The famous physicist, who will go down in history as one of the most important men
time, began a new period in the progress of science
'bold theories. Certainly, although his modesty
has not challenged, his is the merit of having opened the era nuclear
, as was the pioneer of atomic fission, a discovery that has opened up a world
fascinating and risky for our civilization. This very fact
turned Einstein
aware of the tremendous destructive power of new weapons
accounted for all the world, a strong advocate of peace, development of culture and
equality and security of peoples. Thus appears the face of the humanist
that in the presence of an array of horror comes to the task of
fight with passion for an active pacifism, behind which warn
concerns of the sociologist and educator.
In these writings, all of which are linked by a thread
driver: the fate of man, preserved for more noble purposes
mutual annihilation, and concern for community life, they discover the deep
upheavals that shook the scientific
morale in his later years, when the clouds of another war, more cruel
few mankind has endured, hovered over the political horizon
world. The Second World War and its tragic end
that led to the use of the atomic bomb would
anticipated the great danger threatening the planet and the dark path that had led
science. Knowledge in the service of death, when in reality
had always conceived as a support and promotion of the
life.
If not react hastily to the serious situation
put in the hands of ambitious drivers brute force and a
sinister power which had been wrested from nature, every effort
accumulated over millennia and the human race itself, could be wiped out by
energy radiation that revealed the atom
unfathomable.
There arose, indeed, human rebellion. "The stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist
one", which Einstein has the most varied manifestations
ethical than intellectual. His proposals
to maintain peace at all costs, their discussions about the conditions
born on the occasion of the scientific revolution
monopolized by the plan in Belize it, without exception,
dramatic tone. Nothing escapes his keen eye, but did not see any
as a whole: education, culture, religion
their false gods, the military mentality so evident in the U.S.. UU. postwar
socialism and the success of their planning, the course dangerous
assumed by science, and a sharp critique of capitalism, whose "economic
anarchy is the true source of all evil." It will be recalled in this regard
letters that argued with a group of Soviet scientists
in which restraint and sincerity on both sides
discussed, among other things, the project of "world government" that Einstein advocated
and considered one of their schemes
to save humanity from catastrophe, but its partners
rejected outright. The parties were not understood, of course. Without
But the tone of each position served to clarify positions within an intellectual level
foreground.
In other aspects of his vehement defense of peace
thought wise that it was essential to change the education system, in a
direct reference to the U.S.. UU. It was the only way for the youth
not accustomed to the voice of command or just learn to compete
by despicable goals or complete the "race of honors,
as usual in the bourgeois world.
argued that above all the frivolities and threats of mainstream education there was an irreplaceable
ethically, he had to come with humility and talent.
The Living Word , example, teaching ability is essential that field
. Books that can not be discarded,
come in second place, because they can never exceed the capacity and the influence of the educator
has nourished with the sources of wisdom.
Einstein was a true man of science not
disdained the faith, but it is not linked to any dogma. A fiber humanist
that runs as a different written Alito offered here, held
their generous and constructive ideas, which by his own confession,
arose spontaneously at the sight of a society-the American-
who seemed bent on destroying everything to ensure mastery
a few through terror. He accepted, however, that its principles
in sports that was not a specialist, and
always believed that the specialist is to be split, were the product of a healthy
empiricism, which had nothing to do with this word as appears in
different philosophical schools.
However, it is noteworthy that the spirit of this distinguished physicist
showed preference, and this is proven by the
reading some of these notes, by some eminent figures of thought and wisdom
universal. Observed a deep affection for a philosopher
their own race, whose influence is noted in his time and much later: Spinoza,
so popular among German thinkers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
. This Jew, who rebelled against their community,
has left an indelible mark on the spiritual tendency Einstein, which can be traced
effortlessly in the article dealing with the
religion. Einstein was a pious spirit if we understand by religion a
ethical force, which participates in the teacher's pantheism, which opposes
the Bible and theology. Perhaps the physicist was placed beyond
science in the search for the source in which they rest the spirit, feeling, emotion
encouraging men to clarify the dilemmas it poses
individual life and social environment.
This does not mean you have accepted the concept of a personal God, through which,
agree with his opinion, the priests have imposed
fear and superstition.
scientist also expressed sympathy for the Mahatma Gandhi, whose struggle
pacifism of non-violence served as a paradigm. Here
joined two similar attitudes based on moral principles
who dared to challenge the world of blind force and arrogance
. This fellowship in the effort remains
sign of our times, upon which hangs perhaps with greater intensity, the danger
reported at the time and the whistle of the Crusaders
of peace, which conceal the vested interests and
disguised under the pretext of national security.
Placed beyond the trivial and conventions
clouding the minds of men, Einstein was living consciousness that
cried in the wilderness of selfishness, murky undergrowth of secret diplomacy and purposes
dominating world politics. And also
had civil courage to acknowledge to their country of adoption to practice bending and modern
Inquisition and witch hunts in the internal life of the nation
and international relations with its blatant
police infiltration.
few lines he wrote about the ethical socialism
contained in this volume-testing its humanist conviction and the need to
order society in the strictest canons of justice and equality
.
was a rebel convinced of its truth, but this really was a longing
far. His spiritual light has not turned off because its flag has been lowered
nor ever will be, since today is clearer than ever that
thought and philosophy, Spinoza wanted are the
impulse of life and hope .
recall, in passing, that Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany,
in 1879, ie during the first centenary of the French Revolution
. In addition the city is known in the history of philosophy, it is
with the name of Descartes, who spent one season there
. There, one night in November 1629, according to tradition, he had three dreams
mysterious that according to some interpreters
foretell the science unit on a spiritual basis. A casualty
, lacking in effect plausible explanation
unites two famous men in the field of thought and science.
draw conclusions would be risky. Only we just emphasize
coincidence.
A. PLAINS
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