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• PPC has presented today in Madrid the new collection "Capital Sins". Researchers from different disciplines update in nine practical and creative essays how pride, greed, envy, anger, lust, gluttony, laziness, gossip and sadness seduce today.
• "The magnitude of its moral evil is accentuated when, due to the last pandemic, the human species has been in real danger of extinction," warns the philosopher Javier Gomá, prologist of the volumes.
Madrid, December 14, 2022.- The PPC publishing house launches its new collection "Capital Sins". Composed of nine volumes raised in an informative and rigorous tone at the same time, they are presented as creative essays in substance and form that address pride, greed, envy, anger, lust, gluttony, laziness with a current look. , gossip and sadness.
Researchers from different disciplines delve into the mystery surrounding the anti-values enunciated by Pope Gregory the Great fifteen centuries ago and that the Catholic Church continues to present as "vices" in the Catechism. "All the deadly sins are enclosed, in the end, in one: that of acting against the human species", explains the philosopher Javier Gomá, who prefaces the collection, convinced that "the magnitude of their moral evil is accentuated when, due to of the last pandemic that we have just suffered, the species has been in real danger of extinction”.
For the editorial director of PPC, Javier Navarro, these nine books "seek to provoke reflection in the reader that leads them to leave their comfort zone to understand today's world, generate personal change, but also to commit to reality in which we move”. "To do this, each of the authors, from his personal imprint, provides a polyhedral, purposeful and practical view of these human vices common to all", he affirms.
Ethics professor Miguel García-Baró delves into greed based on the idea that "it is not simply the desire for possessions, goods, money, honors." “Having 20,000 million euros no longer means that we are greedy: it will depend on whether we know how to use it for the good of many, since, even if we intend to squander such an amount of money on ourselves alone, we will not reach the goal for longer and dissipately that we live ”, he points out.
The academic of the Royal Academy of History Marifé Santiago Bolaños faces envy with the warning that whoever exercises it "is always judged, and pointed out." “Her social relationships with her entail, for this very reason, a permanent state of alert and a violent automatic reaction –repressing it does not prevent it from being noticed– before any suspicion emanating from his inability to face himself”, he warns.
The literary critic Rafael Narbona delves into the consequences of anger. “Its most radical expression is violence”, points out the writer, who talks about how it is “gestated in the laboratory of ideologies”. “Anger only creates devastation; compassion and forgiveness, far from destroying, are the foundations of all works worthy of enduring ”, he underlines.
The architect Álvaro Galmés starts from gluttony to denounce the current "excess consumption, in terms of balance, not of the individual himself, but of external balance". “It is a fact that the planet's resources are limited and that, even if a small part of it has the economic capacity to exploit it to exhaustion, the responsibility of the modern citizen has to prevail over his power”, he points out.
The journalist Cristina Sánchez Aguilar wonders about lust, to conclude that "it is not a mere liberation of taboos or a break with "Christian moralism." "It leaves victims: addicts to pornography; children who, at a very early age, lose their virginity and get used to wild sexual practices; victims of trafficking harassed to satisfy the excessive demand for sex…", she warns.
The director of the Cultural Area of the Centro Sefarad-Israel, Esther Bendahan, rediscovers gossip from its Hebrew roots that evokes the "poisonous tongue". "Sin, the disconnection that is gossip, the poisonous tongue, being the transmitter of a rumor, corresponds to each one of us, and also to our leaders," she explains.
The professor of Spanish Language and Literature Asunción Escribano plunges into laziness from "the fragility of our species, of our limitation as beings created from a breath on the easiest matter to break". For Escribano, "the lazy isolates himself and blows up a kind of tacit agreement with his world, for which he is expected to contribute to push history forward, at least that small piece that is within the reach of his space and his time." ”.
The Capuchin friar Víctor Herrero addresses sadness from his personal daily life: “The opposite of sadness is reality. Simone Weil says so and I believe so. I believe that in reality there is happiness. I have seen it in my mother's smile before she died."
The Jesuit Xavier Quinzá stops in the mirror of vanity "that falsifies what we are and gives it a dynamic of perversion of the gift received from life" from the hand of pride and arrogance. "It reminds us of the enormous fragility of our life, which pushes us to cultivate humility, like the desire for truth, which God loves so much," added the theologian.
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