A social or biological heart?

Our senses are capable of deceiving us, and therefore we must look elsewhere for the ground of knowing...

What to say about this organ with such an extraordinary function? Winged heart, wounded heart, beloved heart, brave heart, sincere heart...

Its functions frighten me. Perhaps, because of the symbols and signs that we socially create with you, from birth to the most diverse situations that call you to manage.

Linked to every biological system recognized in the literature, we also defend its social function. We blame him for the most diverse impulses, sometimes naive, perverse in circumstances, causing whirlwinds of emotions and actions in the curriculum of life.

You have a monopoly on the noblest gases of extreme need for human beings. Maybe that makes you extraordinary.

In his house, on the left side, only blood rich in oxygen can be seen, while on the right side, only blood rich in carbon dioxide is observed. Two noble gases that make us ashamed of their greatness.

But, what I want to talk about is how much I feel justified in knowing that – when we act on emotions – I have an accomplice who supports my decision-making, abstaining from errors or guilt, which goes against the great philosopher of the 18th century , Immanuel Kant.

In his speeches on ethics, he stated that what should guide human actions is reason, being universal regardless of the culture that the individual is part of as a regulatory function.

However, thinking utopianly, I will revel in Platonic dualism.

Our senses are capable of deceiving us and, for this reason, we must look elsewhere for the foundation of knowing – through another field, perhaps – transience, evident in sensible things that cannot give reason of themselves and by themselves, seeking (sometimes) a timeless and indestructible identity.

My goal is not to conceptualize, nor to create a theory, but to envision decision-making – whether sensitive or intelligible – by the heart, describing it as an organ of the human body or a feeling that seeks, at all times, to be tamed by beliefs. and dogmas, traversing different fields, philosophical or religious, which does not change the target, but precisely hits the human being in his singularities.

Antelmara Silva.

Pedagogue and degree in Philosophy.