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What is Endosomatic and Exosomatic Instruments

Handbook of Research on Transitional Justice and Peace Building in Turbulent Regions
Human beings have a poor endowment of endosomatic instruments (compared with the natural skills and powerful tools of the rest of animals), but they have evolved by means the fabrication of artificial tools (means of production) which are inspired in organs and properties of humans and animals, and that potentiate their work (although consuming a lot of energy). The big increment in the production of this artificial instruments, and the notable sophistication and productivity (high capacity to work, and to produce faster a growing quantity of output), especially during the last five centuries of modern age, has caused dangerous and uncertain effects over nature and the life.
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Turbulent Peace, Power, and Ethics
Fredy Cante (Universidad del Rosario, Colombia)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9675-4.ch001
Abstract
A situation of turbulent peace is defined as an ambiguous transition from direct violence (which ends by means a fragile and incomplete peace agreement among enemies) to an indirect and subtle violence euphemistically denominated as progress. Indeed, a big rate of economic growth implies growing prosperity, incremented consumption, and increasing investment in the present but, sadly, the consequence of this material progress will be the suffering of future generations because the exhaustion and deterioration of nature in a world where the entropy is worsened by the rapacity of actual generations. The depletion and contamination of natural resources is the inherent cost of material progress and development of “productive” forces. The ideological, coercive and economic power of some organized minorities, and the acquiescence of a big majority of human beings constitutes the root of this problem. The antidote against this power is the critical examination of values by active citizens and the guide of ethics. In the long run this problem can be solved promoting a nonviolent economy.
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