"Without a single kind word life is terrible"

The philosopher Josep Maria Esquirol, this Tuesday in Barcelona.MASSIMILIANO MINOCRI / EL PAÍS

Transhumanism and science promise to go beyond the human, but there is the paradox that today “we fall short in humanity;

it is about going deeper within ourselves, not beyond;

We can colonize Mars, but the idea there would be the same: we must intensify what characterizes us as humans ”, says Josep Maria Esquirol, professor of Philosophy at the University of Barcelona (Sant Joan de Mediona, Barcelona, ​​58 years old).

That trip "just a little inside, which is already a lot" is the reason ...

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