Why Ask "Why?"
"No one can be authentically human while he prevents others from being so" -Freire
What Freire is saying in this important quote is that a person who is preventing others from being completely human is not human himself.
Personally, I contradict myself in weather or not I agree with Freire because how can someone is determine what being human is if we all we know has been determine by power holders; even before Christ was born. Even Freire with his ideas is, in some way, dehumanizing other by pressing his ideas in the lives of the people, who are living a life with the same struggles as always and who don't need to ask why to know that the system has always been in place. I truthfully believe that someone can be human if they are under an oppressive power holder. I believe this because people are so use to the way of living under a oppressive society that they do not consider their lives oppressive anymore.
There is also the idea of becoming dehumanize in the way of obtaining the humanity that has "been taking away". With the idea of becoming more dehumanize even in the process of humanization, I wonder if it really is something someone should go through in order to get a "complete" human being, again I do not know if the world has ever known what does it mean to be truthfully human, and if we ever were. I say this because before reading Freire I never thought that my whole existence, my mom's and even my grandparent's lives were dehumanizing. I have always been a human, and I always have obtain my human needs, and even if a live under an oppression I am still a human.
What Freire is saying in this important quote is that a person who is preventing others from being completely human is not human himself.
Personally, I contradict myself in weather or not I agree with Freire because how can someone is determine what being human is if we all we know has been determine by power holders; even before Christ was born. Even Freire with his ideas is, in some way, dehumanizing other by pressing his ideas in the lives of the people, who are living a life with the same struggles as always and who don't need to ask why to know that the system has always been in place. I truthfully believe that someone can be human if they are under an oppressive power holder. I believe this because people are so use to the way of living under a oppressive society that they do not consider their lives oppressive anymore.
There is also the idea of becoming dehumanize in the way of obtaining the humanity that has "been taking away". With the idea of becoming more dehumanize even in the process of humanization, I wonder if it really is something someone should go through in order to get a "complete" human being, again I do not know if the world has ever known what does it mean to be truthfully human, and if we ever were. I say this because before reading Freire I never thought that my whole existence, my mom's and even my grandparent's lives were dehumanizing. I have always been a human, and I always have obtain my human needs, and even if a live under an oppression I am still a human.