Javier B. Seoane C. is a Professor at the Central University of Venezuela and the Andrés Bello Catholic University.
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We ask ourselves about education for democracy in today’s Venezuela. José Ortega y Gasset said that human beings lack nature, that we are history. Thrown into the world at birth, we find ourselves, as we grow older, with objects that have been the result of human action over time. With each generation the human enterprise begins anew, but it is never a beginning ex nihilo, from nothing, in a vacuum, but a beginning under certain conditions that no one chooses. Each generation has to make its own history under inherited conditions that will mark it, that will at the same time limit and enable the development of its possibilities. The sum of these objects and conditions is the history that we are.
There is no fixed, determined human nature, genetically programmed once and for all. There is a historical human condition that takes shape in different ways in each one of us. Each of us is conditioned, limited and enabled at the same time by two programmes that precede and constitute us: one biological and the other cultural, more or less open according to circumstances.
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