The importance of the human and what humanizes us

Abstract

What is decisive of this issue is that today's world fosters human qualities in disregard of human quality, or even attempting against it. Qualities belong to what is useful, instead of what is valuable. Therefore qualities can only be, and should be, developed according to quality. Jesus of Nazareth is the utmost examplary of humanity and He was so, because He lived completely giving Himself to others from having nowhere to rest His head. For this reason, although He was able to raise the grief-stricken people, He also had to receive nourishment and shelter every day. In this way, Jesus established the reciprocity of gifts as a groundbreaking alternative to the way of 'giving-giving', common in the Roman Empire and still today. This way of living from horizontal, free and open relationships is always possible because the Spirit of Jesus, which enables to do so,
was given to all of us. That said, we have to live with liberated freedom, so that what is done to us negatively, although it affects us, does not shape us, because we live from those transcendental relationships. However, in order to live in this personalized manner, we have to desire it as the only human way of living, the only one that brings us joy.