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Please read the following text and answer the questions at the end of it

Morin, E. (2006). El método 6. Ética. Madrid, España: Editorial Cátedra

The philosopher –antrophologist Edgar Morin, author of the book “El Método” explain
through six volumes the great difficulty of thinking the complexity of the reality. In the
Sixth volumen entitled Ethics, proposes a particular situation of ethics as a relinking act.
The following excerpt explains how complexity must be faced in the social level:

“Every glance about ethics must perceive moral act as an individual act of relinking: a
relinking act to the fellow human being, a relinking act to the community, a relinking act
to the society, but at the end, also a relinking act to the Humankind. There is an
individual source of ethics placed in the inclusiveness principle, this how the individual is
included into a comunity (us), the inclusiveness principle also takes us to the love,
friendship and altruism. Inclussiveness is as worthy as relinking (Anschlusswert). At the
same time, there is a social source that lays inside the rules and norms themselves.
This source makes the individuals to have a sympathetic behavior. There is, then a kind
of pre-established harmony that makes individuals to follow sympathetic ethics. In
certain point, moral is a “natural” concept in human beings and it depens on the human
being and social nature as well. However this definition needs to be changed, due to the
double-faced nature of human beings and society. On one hand, individual is addressed
under a strong pression of egocentricity and selfishness; on the other hand, society is
driven to rivalries, struggles of selfish interests. The ethics norms are not imposed
completely to all individuals in a society; nevertheless individuals only can have an
ethical behaviour after they have ovwercame their own selfish thoughts and desires.
This issue gets worse in complex societies, where the individual progress is tided to
desintegratrion of traditional sympathetic concepts” [CITATION Mor06 \p 24 \l 9226 ]
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According to the reading excerpt, answer the following questions:

1. According to Morin (2006), relinking can be consider as

a. An individual perception of reality that offers us identity.

b. An individual perception of reality that takes us to individualism
c. A common identity to the others around us.
d. An individual identity to be apart from the others around us.

2. The concept of Harmony can be claimed as

a. An engine that drives individuals to be synpathetic in society.
b. A mechanism that blocks sympathetic behaviours among individuals
c. An engine that supports egocentricity
d. A mechanism that makes possible the reproduction of society

3. Morin (2006), points out the concept that corresponds to the nature of individuals
and society, which is:
a. Ethics
b. Moral
c. Harmony
d. Egocentricity

4. The doble-faced nature of human being and society is determined by:

a. Egocentricity and rivalries
b. Cooperation and solidarity
c. Politics and religion
d. Ethics and Moral

5. According to Morin (2006), societies only can get an ethical behaviour after
overcoming
a. Greed
b. Ambition
c. Selfishness
d. None