Universal History of Solutions is the new work of José Antonio Marina, a work where this philosopher and pedagogue makes a tour of the philosophical tools that can help us solve future problems.
This work is a kind of compilation of philosophical and psychological methods throughout the history of humanity that have helped solve the problems that have arisen.
Universal history of solutions
The new essay by José Antonio Marina is Universal history of solutions, a book where Philosophy, history and psychology mix seeking to achieve an objective science of solutions. The author himself presents the book in the following way:
«This book emerges from a doubt: Where learn politicians to fulfill their missionThat is, to solve society's problems? Unfortunately they do it in the struggle for power, which is not a good school. So, what should the education of a politician be like? Where can we learn to facilitate "public happiness", as the Enlightenment said?, that forgotten and noble meaning of politics as a means to resolve conflicts and which is the foundation of ethics.
Throughout the 336 pages that make up the philosopher's new work, we find a division into three parts. A first critical part where the fundamentals of locate the problem and present the range of options that opens up for us to solve it. A second part where look for the solutions. And finally, a critique of the solutions themselves for choose the best option or those most useful while waiting to find a definitive solution.
Jose Antonio Marina
José Antonio Marina Torres born in Toledo on July 1, 1939 and as he himself points out on his website, being born in that city "is like being born simultaneously in a city and in a legend, and perhaps that is why I believe that intelligence is an admirable and tenacious creator of fictions with which to be able to take charge of reality."
Es professor philosophy surplus at the Madrid institute of La Cabrera and Doctor Honoris Causa from the Polytechnic University of Valencia. But José Antonio Marina is much more, his research work focused on the study of intelligence and specifically on artistic, scientific, technological and economic creation has made him participate in a multitude of conferences and earned him numerous awards. Furthermore, he is collaborator in different media both written (El Mundo, The Weekly y The Confidential among others) as well as radio and television.
Since he was a child, creativity and expression were attractive to him, as a child he wanted to be a dancer, He was passionate about the world of dance and how people could transform effort into something that flows and when you see it it doesn't seem like it requires so much effort. That idea, he assures, is the one with which he treats all of his books, he works on them as if they were a thesis, and then explains them in a simpler way, that almost anyone can read, understand and enjoy.
Author titles
In her first book published in 1992, Praise and refutation of ingenuity, treated ingenuity as something inherent to existence and that requires freedom. Since that moment his works have continued and his fame has grown to the point of receiving numerous awards. Talking about José Antonio Marina implies talking about one of the most notable Spanish thinkers of our days.
Of his works, notable titles such as Theory of creative intelligence, Ethics for castaways, The sentimental labyrinth, The jungle of language o The puzzle of sexuality. With these titles we can get an idea of the thematic variety treated by the writer.
Works made:
- Praise and refutation of ingenuity (1992)
- Theory of creative intelligence (1993)
- Ethics for castaways (1996)
- The sentimental labyrinth (1998)
- The mystery of the lost will (1998)
- The jungle of language: introduction to a dictionary of feelings (1998)
- The flight of intelligence (2000)
- Chronicles of ultramodernity (2000)
- The puzzle of sexuality (2002)
- Opinion about God (2002)
- The dreams of reason: essay on political experience (2003)
- Memoirs of a private investigator (2003)
- Failed intelligence: theory and practice of stupidity (2004)
- learn to live (2004)
- Why I am a Christian: double truth theory (2005)
- To learn to live together (2006)
- The family in the educational process: annual study 2005 (2006)
- Citizenship education (2007) ESO level textbook
- The architectures of desire: an investigation into the pleasures of the spirit (2007)
- The passion of power: theory and practice of domination (2008)
- Love words (2009)
- The recovery of authority (2009)
- Failed cultures: the talent and stupidity of societies (2010)
- Talent education (2010)
- The child's brain. The great opportunity (2011)
- The secrets of motivation (2011)
- Small treatise on the great vices (2011)
- executive intelligence (2012)
- Wake up the diplodocus (2015)
- Objective: Generate talent (2016)
- Visual History of Intelligence: From the origins of humanity to Artificial Intelligence (2019)
- Biography of Inhumanity (2021)
- The endless desire (2022)
Furthermore, it would be necessary add all works made with collaborations because their research covers many fields and therefore collaborations are abundant.
