Interpreting Cultures: Between Rejection and Solace

Abstract

The world is and will definitely remain plural; there is no single truth about human beings, so there cannot be a dominator project. But there are common traits that can become linking elements, through change, with fewer geographic and knowledge limitations. The scientific medium needs to borrow more metaphysics as a way of judging, otherwise it risks to become, with its positivism, a "murderer of souls", leading to novel and unpredictable consequences, including its final collapse. Three centuries in which researchers have worked on the statue of Descartes, as the modern incarnation of the spirit, are more than enough. To find the truth and truly live we need to remove the false representations and deforming concepts and "to dive in the movement of life", as Bergson put it. Interpretation should never tell us what to believe, think or feel. Interpretation begins with the recognition of the fact that there is not a single way of living, believing, writing or dreaming and that once we all have acknowledged a moral code, all the cultural, political, economical differences can be overcome. Even politics can be moral in spite of what we have been taught to believe in the modern era, the truth and good feelings occur in politics, and can even make it better, because ultimately results matter. Nothing can withstand the power of truth, even if sometimes the road is long and requires caution. In general, for us men, the road to wisdom is tortuous, such as the one from all initiatic routes. But wisdom makes us become worthy of the living knowledge of the truth. Thus, the world can change not only through violence, but also by appealing to the moral power in us and by peacefully addressing our