“Our world is infinitely ugly,” said Walter Gropius. And certainly, the current context is brutally dirty, unpleasant, disgusting. The war in Ukraine, most of which is almost broadcast live, fills the pixels of television sets with the repulsive stench of rotting corpses. It’s a scent that’s also inhaled on the border of Melilla or on the southern roads of Texas, where man is damaged goods that can be thrown into the dustbin of history.
So: In the midst of this drama of blood and fear, the only existing human fabrication that still expresses the decision to protect human rights and civil liberties by force if necessary met at NATO Madrid, and fortunately convergence has come together. Historical meeting in one of the most beautiful corners of the world, at the Prado Museum, where aesthetics – that is, the value of human sensitivity – preserves its best treasures.
It is already known: José María Valverde, professor of Aesthetics in Barcelona, left his professorship when he was deprived of Aranguren, professor of Ethics in Madrid: “Nulla esthetica sinus ethica”. Centuries ago, Nietzsche suggested the opposite: “Nulla esthetica without ethics”. And also indisputable.
This time ethics and aesthetics seem to go hand in hand in the face of irrationality, anger and war itself. And this pairing is undoubtedly the secret of the only possible future that includes the defense of civilization that can reveal Velázquez, Picasso, and parliamentary democracy in its indispensable tradition of the continual improvement of mankind.
Source: Informacion
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