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## Adela Cortina: "If humanities have no future, neither does society"

07/04/2022 |
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Adela Cortina, Professor of Ethics at the University of Valencia and Doctor Honoris Causa of the Universitat Jaume I, opened the 24th Valencian Conference on Philosophy with a lecture on "The future of humanities in the digital age", in which she claimed the importance of humanities, to the point that she assured that "if humanities have no future, neither does society".

According to Cortina, "philosophy has to be at the service of society" and, in this sense, she highlighted the work developed by the UJI group led by Professor Domingo García Marzá, which has resulted in the development of the code of ethics of the university itself, of Valencian tourism and of many private companies.

Cortina assured that humanities have a double beneficial function. On the one hand, they have an important impact on the generation of wealth, in the creation of the gross domestic product of a society and, at the same time they are "very fruitful", since they allow to direct the future, to direct history. "Humanities are not only useful, but also fruitful, because they serve to guide our lives, to give them meaning", said the philosopher, who concluded that "the usefulness of humanities is obvious, but in this world, the obvious is not recognised".

Along these lines, Cortina claimed that humanities "should be present in all curricula, both in secondary education and in universities" and that, within the three cultures that make up humanities, the natural sciences and the social sciences, humanities have been relegated to last place when they should be at the top, since they affect all people and society as a whole.

In Cortina's opinion, humanities have not been sufficiently vindicated, partly because researchers themselves have not sufficiently explained that "philosophy does have methods, it has a specific language and specific meanings that must be known for the discussion".

In this regard, the doctor honoris causa of the UJI stressed that the role of good philosophy is to develop critical capacity and discernment, which would be the best capacity that a civil society could have to be truly radical. "We have to have a mature citizenship, with critical capacity, that can mark the future and determine limits. A mature citizenry is the key to a democratic society and for this it must be critical, autonomous and supportive, for which philosophy is fundamental", she said.

Having a mature and critical society allows it to determine where science is going and what it is used for, since that is the role of humanities, according to Cortina, who also pointed out that "we are going to a world in which everything depends on the prevailing culture and we find ourselves in a struggle between autocratic cultures and democratic cultures.

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