Index
1. Extract
2. Hypothesis
3. The unit as the source of all that exists
4. Do human beings repeat in the economic and
social life the same behavior of atom?
5. Why humans fight among them?
6. The idea of Leibniz
7. Conclusion
1. Extract
The work of philosophers and
scientists has been used by politicians and economists to try to explain the
causes of economic and social behavior of human groups. For example, Charles
Darwin (1809-1882) studied the biological evolution of species, but his theory
of natural selection was used to justify capitalism. Karl Marx (1818-1883)
evaluated the causes of social conflict and attributed it to the class struggle
and selfishness capitalist; years later, the Marx's theory was employed to
sustain the communist and socialist regimes in Russia and other places of the
world, while Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) followed in the same Darwin line
creating his survival of the fittest theory which served to reinforce the idea
of capitalism. But none of these theoretical interpretations considered the
link between human behavior and the essential component of life, which is the
atom. This fact makes us think that it would be useful to supplement the existing
ideas from that perspective.
2.
Hypothesis
Human beings are made up of atoms
and their economic and social attitude repeat the behavior of atoms. The
following paragraphs explain what the basis of that hypothesis is.
3. The unit as the source of all that exists
Philosophers of Ancient Greece first
raised the concept of unit as cause
and effect of all existence and called those unit monad. In Greek monad means unit. Following this idea, the
pre-Socratic philosophers Leucippus and Democritus, conceived and first used
the concept of atom in V-IV centuries BC. The Pythagoreans extended the study
of the concept of unit and attributed
at unit the origin of numbers,
geometry and everything. Plato (424 BC -348 BC) and Aristotle (384 BC -322 BC)
also spoke of monads. Centuries later, René Descartes (1596-1650) became
interested in the topic and continued in that same interest Gottfried Leibniz
(1646-1716) and Immanuel Kant (1724-1804). The work of all these philosophers
found in the 20th century with the final explanation of the atom
scientific study which confirmed that atom is the smallest unit of matter, and that everything in the universe is made up of
atoms, i.e. the atom is the essential part of all. This confirmed that the
ideas of the pre-Socratic, ancient and modern philosophers about monads were
true, since monads were essentially the same atoms as we know them today. It
showed also that knowledge is constantly evolving: the best demonstration of it
is how the original idea of monads of Antiquity
evolved to the modern idea of atom
in the 20th century.
The idea of unit as the
beginning and end of all things may be proven in the most important
manifestations of life: God is one; the different religions accept the existence
of this Superior Being who is called in different ways but in essence is the same. All the elements
that constitute nature are made of atoms, i.e. by an essential unit. Space and time is one unit. Man and woman form a
unit that is the human race and to confirm this statement we must remember that
the Holy Scriptures say the woman, Eve, was created from Adam. That is to say God, man and nature are
separate units in appearance but in reality united in essence by a common integrator
that is God. You might wonder why then there are injustice, poverty, conflict
and war if God, man and nature form a unit. I think there is an explanation
which will be discussed below.
4. Do human beings repeat in the economic and social life the same
behavior of atom?
We can think that in the economic
and social life take place a phenomenon similar to what occurs in the atom where
there is a positive force (protons p +), a negative force (electron e-) and a
neutral force (neutrons n). These forces fighting in the atom are in constant
motion with loads of different intensity and this produces the changes in
nature. Well, a similar phenomenon happens in the economy and in social life.
In capitalist societies the producers are the positive force, the speculators the
negative force and consumers the neutral force, which are handled by each
other. In communist societies the workers are the positive force, the state the
negative force, which plunders the rest of society and the consumers the neutral
force which is also a victim of the state. In all political regimes operate the
three forces (positive, negative, and neutral) and all act on the nature overexploiting
the natural resources and affecting the environment. A much broader
interpretation could be made of this idea.
Human beings are made up of atoms;
therefore people follow the same behavior of atoms in its economic and social
behavior. It is a process of constant struggle between its components. Conflict
is a phenomenon inherent to the proper nature of beings. That explains why
thinkers such as Charles Darwin, Karl Marx and Herbert Spencer spoke of natural
selection, the class struggle and survival of the fittest. But Darwin, Marx
neither Spencer knew the implications of atomic phenomenon as we know it today;
if they had known it perhaps would have linked their theories to the effect
that the atomic composition of matter exert on the economic and social behavior
of the human groups. An exception in
this regard was the research of the structuralist trend of scientific psychology
of the early 20th century, whose founder, Wilhelm Wundt, (1832-1920),
did consider the influence of atom in human behavior.
5. Why humans fight among them?
Human beings fight among them
because they reproduce in their economic and social life the essential behavior
of atom, which is in a permanent process of transformation. This would explain
not only economic and social change but also biological change. The cells are
in a continuous transformation process but the cells are atoms. Hence life is
eternal. Death does not affect the essential principle of life that is atom,
which continues to exist beyond death, because atom is indestructible and gives
rise to new forms of life.
6. The idea of Leibniz
The German philosopher Gottfried
Leibniz, in his study of monads, which in essence was the same atom that we
realize now, explained that each monad (atom) has its own program of action;
hence, neither causality nor the fortuity exists because everything that happens
in nature is programmed by the monads.
In the 20th century,
modern physics advanced enough to understand more fully the atom and to develop
its practical applications; some uses of atomic energy have brought great
progress to humanity but others, unfortunately, as its use in weapons of
massive destruction, have placed the world near end; the threat remains there.
7. Conclusion
If human beings are made up of atoms
and atoms have a determined behavior, we can suppose that the behavior of human
beings is influenced or determined by the behavior of atoms.
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