THE PHILOSOPHICAL AND POLITICAL VIOLENCE THAT WE ALL INHERITED

Abstract

Starting with a brief characterization of the “conservative” primitive societies –of its anthropological, philosophical and religious border with respect to our own time– and with the affirmation of the paradoxical revolutionary nature of the founding myth of the “progressive” modern times –those which praise the opposite features of Philosophy and Christianity, and, at the same time, are finally ready to carry out the breakdown that regarding them is given by nulle et non avenue –; the following paper aims to show how the “bourgeois” Nation States and also the “Philosophy” or Ideology that comes along with them entail a sort of violence, which first “philosophical” act is precisely to conceal (“mythically”, to use René Girard’s expression) that same violence within the vulgar simplification that is imposed upon us regarding such a complex and subtle matter.