A Critical Analysis of the “Light Man”
2 º OVERVIEW:
The author of this book intended to make a full and detailed description of the man light.
And he has succeeded by taking the most emaciated of society and bringing them together in a single individual, creating a being without any substance, full of contradictions, without a safe and entrenched views, etc..
He described all aspects by which a man can be light. Of course all this has been done since their opinion so there may be people who disagree with their criteria for a person lightizar.
In the last chapter has tried to solve the light man but has not managed at all, and not because they have known it but because the light man has no simple solution.
3 rd Summary and commentary by chapter:
Man light Chap.1:
The first section describes the man Enrique Rojas light as a man without substance that does not care all that much change of opinion because it is a very superficial, to which all external influences him. So it is a product of man and society that we continually forge the personality.
The author also lists other aspects of society that are shaping the light man
Comment:
just say that I totally agree with the author as we usually complain about people without substance, which contributes nothing to anyone in the end what we believe is our antithesis, but in fact we who believe men lights.
Chap.2 hedonism and permissiveness:
This chapter speaks of the men have finished increasingly wanting to all get the pleasure. And they think they get by buying and buying things with no apparent use until they think they are satisfied. The man who does nothing but buying is finished and increasingly weak from being manipulated by advertising, which does what you want with it, squeeze it until there’s nothing left to squeeze.
Commentary:
Today’s society is becoming increasingly materialistic and has a pedestal with people who have more money than they know what to do with it, society increasingly buy and buy more things that are good for nothing but they are pretty.
Chap.3 What is man? :
The man is capable of thinking this makes it able to love the truth and freedom although many men do not care about the truth because it implies a compromise.
The search for truth is a desire for freedom.
Many people find it more interesting to be well informed to seek the truth, but this information is not looking good for man nor freedom. Light man has no happiness or joy because all they want is comfort and security. He moves around itself olbidándose individualism and solidarity.
Comment:
I totally agree with the author because, for example for many people to have to tell the truth means being totally clean and there are people who are not. For this to people having to tell the truth is a commitment which can not escape
Cap.4 The path of nihilism:
Very start of the chapter, the author questions the difference between freedom and liberal. And it uses to refer to freedom enslaved man, not subject. It also makes no distinction between freedom of the will (the process of educating the will to be directed towards the higher goals) and freedom of choice (pursuit of happiness). Then use liberal to define an open, pluralistic, tolerant, able to converse with people who advocate positions opposed to theirs.
The author uses two sheets to define permissiveness but can be summarized in: the permissiveness considers all valid and lawful, provided that the request seems rather subjective. For the truth relativism is something that is constantly changing, as judged by each person and for skepticism if there is absolute truth but human reason is incapable of achieving it.
Comment:
This chapter in which he talks about freedom, permissiveness, relativism etc. Simply explains these issues in my opinion does not attempt to influence opinion but to inform.
Chap.8 life light:
The light of western man has no strong beliefs. There are two facts that surround this climate of social fragility: – The overwhelming frivolity.
• The promotion of human selfishness.
Death has become taboo in society running. The light is vulnerable man and although at first it spark is a totally empty of meaning.
Light literature: man read but also light does not care what you read but have a good time reading it. Today’s literature has become completely commercial and only read what is in fashion. According to the author of today’s society is aimed at law of minimum effort and maximum comfort.
The man is not completely happy light as it acts to have, is to consume and consume to give a better image of himself.
Comment:
Enrique Rojas is right about the lights products but exaggerates a bit when he says it of indifference and passivity of humans. On the subject of literature I think that is wrong because although it has become so commercial that does not mean that people only read the books of famous and even as I said in comments earlier chapters to taste are the colors.
Cap.10 fatigue life:
Explains the weariness of life as something that is nothing concrete and refers to aspects vague and imprecise, concerns life as a whole. To try to explain this state of mind must “find your why.
-Describe what the subject feels experiencing internally.
-Design a formula to get out from this state.
In the weariness of life is the strongest feeling of disappointment.
Gives the solutions to the mood and said:
– Rethink life (trying to view with objectivity)
– Establish a hierarchy of values and preferences with realism
– Willingness to carry out such purposes
Comment:
attempts to explain the fatigue life. Although I believe all I get is concluded that a term is too abstract to try to give some characteristics. Clear that if you take out for the first time to study a behavior like this should be studied separately to each person and not to generalize as it has done so far. Because the term man has used light to define very little social behavior, is always widespread.
Psychology Cap.12 failure:
Failure is: that inner experience of defeat, when something that we put our effort and enthusiasm has not gone as expected necessary for the maturation of personality. The immediate note is some reaction of collapse, then there is what we call in modern psychology, cognitive response, which is a kind of analysis that seeks to break down underground why this result. Outcrops on the fly a certain stagnation. It is not the same as in the case of a failure affective than professional or financial. The thermometer of intensities will depend largely on the arguments that each is critical to your life. That’s the best way to get to be yourself.
Chap.13 drug
Psychology:
The drug issue is now gigantic proportions. The main reasons that predispose and trigger a tendency to drugs are:
Young people start taking drugs out of curiosity and because it is fashionable. The world of drugs meant for the young meet their Faustian thirst for adventure, need for new experiences. The drug is always escape, is also a reaction to the spiritual emptiness of our time and allows avoiding pain and suffering.
The drug is the permanent expression of the myth of ragweed: a substance that, to take the gods made them immortal effortlessly.
Comment:
I think people who start taking drugs most often do so because it has no personality and it is likely that your friends have pushed it, and if carried away by them he has no personality. Could be with their friends and not get high but these do, because the fact that their friends use drugs does not mean he will do so to do.
Cap.15 The happiness project
Happiness is the fundamental vocation of man, his first inclination toward primary and targeting their efforts. Happiness consists mostly illusion, which is the best way to be happy and find a program is successful and attractive life. We must not lose sight of when the program of life practice the distinction between desire and want:
Want to move into the realm of the sentimental, thrives on emotionally and willing is an act of will. We must also fight two dangers:
The fragmentation, lack of depth on the issues due to the wishes and continued commitment to the things around us or people.
The order is hierarchy, discipline, knowing that some things take priority over others, the record is commitment and will is the psychological capacity to choose and act in one way or another. Thanks to love life has meaning and love is a trend.
Happiness is not found in the superman, but in the real man.
Happiness is the highest aspiration that man has. The exit to stop light being a person is in imminent passage to transcendence, leaving the individualism and materialism.
Comment:
I think as Enrique Rojas when it comes to happiness. Man is created to be happy, we have all the facilities for this, but what happens most times is that we use or not use them excessively and therefore the world is as it is. Fully distributed unequally because sometimes human beings want more than what we have and are taking it away to people who have less.
Solutions Chap.16 man light:
Europe, the old continent, you must redefine its identity, it is necessary to return to their roots close.
Draw a hierarchical system in which the spiritual and temporal powers merge. In the late fifteenth century, came the Renaissance, then return to the Greco-Roman classical antiquity, then we got to the European rationalist.
West has lived in the myth of indefinite progress, One of the main values is humanism, this is a decent man who wants to be more educated to be more free. We must give our lives strong values, it comes back to the spiritual man, capable of covering all the beautiful, noble and great that is in the world.
We all seek happiness but few that manage to be happy that life must be coherent argument. Happiness is to be found, which does not give away.
Comment:
I guess the author in this chapter shall be given as solutions to the light man any changes to what was once the society, a society in which man was more worthy of what is now a spiritual man, much more lover of beauty. In my opinion the only thing that needs to be happy is to stop being so superficial as we are, because this does not we would take everything so seriously and so we do not influence the opinion others have of us.