lunes, 2 de noviembre de 2009

Lost in Time !!!!

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This is my last blog, so I am going to try to make it the most interesting for everybody. This chapter talks about the time. As you know time is divided into PAST,PRESENT,FUTURE. The 3 are very important for us because it affect us, each one in a different way. For example I can travel to the past and kill my father, and when I came to the present I wouldn't exist because I kill my father, and my father didn't get married. Another example is in the stock exchange, If I travel to the future I could made millions and millions of dollars in the stock market because I will know what companies are succesfull in the future and what things their price go up, so you go back to the present and buy stocks cheap, and later sell them.


The past is really important to us because it is what we know that has happend. By knowing this you can predict what is going to happend on the future, and also you can avoid many problems that you had. We can learn many things from the past and try try them in the present and future. The future also affect us, you can know in the present what is going to happend later, and take your desicions and solutions to problems.


With the time we cannot play or modify it. We need to ride in the present and try to predict what is going to happend in the future by knwoing or past and present!!!!




viernes, 30 de octubre de 2009

wonderful time

in the chapter of lost in time, savater talks about aristotle. aristotle thinks that movement is "intrinsically" linked to movement. i would like to develop or explain what i think about this idea. the idea that time is so dependent to movement is very interesting, because it shows that there has to be a change so that time can be time, it is like we have to grow or everything has to transform so that time can be what we call time. for example, plants grow and change some qualities like shape, color, and other ones, so time passes because the plant grew, but if the plant stayed the same no matter what then time would not be time, because what would be the point of time if there is no change to be measured. we use time to measure the duration of movements, trying to find out how long it takes to something to move and by consequence to change in appeareance. time can be expressed in many ways and still we dont know exactly what it is because the truth is that we just use it to like measure what we do, but we dont understand how we got to that measurement, since centuries ago time has been used, even day and night were created to describe the rotation of the earth and 24 hours to tell how long it takes for the earth to do a complete rotation. my point is, if there were no movement then there would be no time because there would be nothing to measure.

LOST IN TIME

I finally read the last chapter of the book, that talked about time. Before reading it I used to understand the concept of time as a very simple word, but after reading it I understand what does time means. Time is an important reference in our lives, because everytime we talk we use it. "Yesterday I went to the movies." "My next class is in 20 minutes." "Next week I'm going to Las Vegas." "I like to be here." Even without not noticing it time is an indispensable factor in our lives, where memories take place making our past, where the present is happening right now and becoming past, and the future is about to come. As Savater says, "We see the present comming, we see it going away, but we never see it remaining" and the actual moment we are reading is infinitesimally short.
My favorite part of the book is the part that Pascal wrote. He completely has the reason bye saying that the past should not preoccupy us because it has passed, and we should regret nothing, and the future should concern us even less, since it hasn't arrived and perhaps we never reach it. The present is the time that is truly ours, so we should enjoy and live at the fullest the present, because it is the only thing that we have for sure! Most of the people is always worried about the future, and letting the present go away...... Butas my favorite phrase says, LIFE'S JUST ONCE!
Even though nowbody knows exactly what is time, due to it is a very complex concept, what I can get is that for example there isn't a now, because time has passed and that now has became past. So as I already said, enjoy every moment of your life, live every second like if it was the last, always see the positive sides of life and don't waste your time complaining, so we can spend our present in a good way seeing our past as a correct thing we make.

martes, 27 de octubre de 2009

Lost in time

This chapter was actually one of the few chapter or we can say topics that make me think and actually apply it to what I live each day.

As persons we are used to saying here, now, this, and we think that is the present but as Savater said if we say right now, now is not longer now, it is already in the past, we will never see the present stay in a situation because each moment it is already in the past and when we are talking we don’t actually realize that and if we think I don’t think half of the population of the world have actually think in this kind of doubts or questions that are actually very true and easy to understand.

Another interesting thing about time is that it can be measure how you what it to be measure, seasons, months, days, hours but for it to be understood it have to be something common that everyone have the knowledge, you can’t make your own measurement because then you will not be have to communicate with anyone and no one will understand what are you referring to. We can say that without time it will be difficult to understand our thoughts and it will be hard even to tell stories.

lunes, 26 de octubre de 2009

Lost in time

This book although at the begging I found it very uninteresting I started liking it at the end, this chapter "lost in time" put me reasoning into things I have never thought about it before for example, I had never thought about what is time. The question Savater asks him self is the same question it came to my mind after reading this chapter " Why is it so difficult to think about time?" Other thing I found it interesting is when he says "we see the present coming, we see it going away, but we never see it remaining" as he says "how can we determine a thing that is but never remains?" I think this is why it is so difficult to find a definition for time I personally think time does not has an exact definition. Also I agree with Zeno of Elea when he says that Achilles will never catch up the tortoise I compared this with what my little brother asked me long time ago, he asked me When will I be as old as you ? I told him something like Achilles and the tortoise, I said " You will never be as old as me because when you are 18 as I am now I will be still 13 years older than you". So in conclusion time is something very hard to define but indispensable for life, so for me an easy definition of time can be a point of reference for doing the activities.

viernes, 23 de octubre de 2009

the shiver of beauty

it is very difficult to say if something is beautiful because it is morally good or morally bad. when something is morally good and all the people agree it is morally good, then everyone says it is more beautiful than ever.

yesterday in my house, i saw a relative of mine helping the volunteer group for missionaires collecting food and other stuff to give to the poor people of the country. then another of my relatives told her that she was doing a beautiful action, that nobody does that every day and she should be proud of working for helping people.

then she answered that she was doing nothing but her duty as a human being which is to serve others and help them get what they dont have that she does have. i thought that was an excellent answer to my other relative, which was an adult but anyways, she was reflecting the quotes and thoughts of some of the thinkers of this chapter of the shiver of beauty.

then i started thinking, okay if she says the act is not beautiful because it was her duty to do so, then a big big question came into my mind can we do our duties in a beautiful way? and can we produce beauty? i don't know the exact answer of that and i think nobody does, but what we can do is try to, try to make the best of the best of what we can and see if it worked or not, if it was beautiful or not but never forgetting that it is just a duty and if it is also beautiful then we have a plus.

jueves, 22 de octubre de 2009

BEAUTY

Have you come to think if there are any rules, specifications, or characteristics of how someting has to be to be BEAUTIFUL? Before reading chapter 9, "The Shiver of Beauty" I thought I knew what pleasure and beauty mean. But after reading it, I ended with a different meaning of those words, and now I see them different. As I now understand, Pleasure is what makes us feel good, happy, full and want more of that; as Beauty is subjective to everyone, what we can call as perfect, and what give us a good sensation by just seeing it.
In the beginning of the chapter, Savater talks about PLEASURE. He says pleasure is what we enjoy, and as I understood we can have physical an mental pleasure.

Everyday we can call beautiful to anything that is pretty, that has beauty, and we know beauty is subjective. What can seem beautiful for me can seem ugly for someone else. There is no concept for beauty. There are no rules, no specifications to name something beautiful. But also what we can call beauty is not the same as moral respect or admiration. Savater uses a clearly example about the egypcian pyramids. By first sight, most of the people can say that The Great Pyramid is a beautiful thing, but thinking more deeply, we can have admiration, because I think no one can feel pleasure by seeing it, knowing how it was built, with all those sacrifices, unfair suffering, deaths, and we can come to think that it was not morally right to build it. So this opens us the scope for what beauty is, as I said before it is subjective and no one can really judge is something is really beautiful in the inside and outside, or not.

BEAUTIFULL !!!!

Do you consider yourself as beautiful? Well I honestly don't have the authority or the knowledge to tell you that. Beautiful is a very complex word that has many things that make it up. For example, your girlfriend is beautiful, the peace of art that picasso draw is beautiful, a poem can be beautiful, there are many things and ways that are beautiful, even expressions you say to your boyfriends or girlfriends.

Everyone in this world wants to be beautiful, and I am one of those. You want to people see you as a beautiful person. But you can be beautiful from the outside and your inside. Many people consider more important the outside part, that the inside.

Many people are unable to say whether something is beautifull or not. It all depends in the sansations and the symbols or ideas that something represents. Philosphers are not completrly acurate whether saying is something beautifull or not.

In the book they also explain if artists most always seek for beauty. What the artists do is to express their feelings and ideas, they can be malicios or good, it all depends on what the artists is trying to make you understand in their pieces of art. They not always try to find beauty, what they do is to help you understand what they are meaning or symbolizing.

Beauty is capable of doing anything to a human beaing, beauty causes great reactions to many people, and modify they habits, way of life and even thinking. In conclusion I think that everybody has his beauty, some may exibit it, and some may not, it all depends on you. So relax is not a big deal!!!

martes, 20 de octubre de 2009

The Shiver Of Beauty

In this chapter ‘The Shiver of beauty’ what kept me thinking was the word pleasure that Savater described. He said there were two types of pleasure the physical which are the typical pleasure were you want more and we can enjoy everything with our senses like eating, sleeping, taking with your boyfriend etc. I think all of us already knew this but did you know that Savater also uses another type of pleasure, yes the pleasure in which he said that came from being rational human being, those pleasure where you use your reason for example, when you are hearing a song and you say how beautiful the song is. Maybe for some people that are interested in music feel this passion, but it is kind of wired because how are you getting this pleasure? Can we say that we have just half a pleasure? Or how can we explain the feeling that we will be getting when hearing that song, or seeing a paint or even someone. A doubt I have is if we will still name beautiful a painting that appear someone dead for example the crucifixion of Jesus that there are a lot of painting and we sometime say its beautiful but not the fact of the crucifixion but of the painting. How can we call this type of beauty? Or can we even describe it?

lunes, 19 de octubre de 2009

100% FREE

Have you ever think how free you are? Affortunately, but unaffortunately we are 100% FREE. Let me explain this last sentence: We are affortunately free because it is amazing to do what ever you want to, obviously noticing there are limits, and in the other hand it's unaffortunately (Fernando Savater uses the term "condemned to freedom") because there are consequences, and when we pass those limits, we have to pay consequences and repair damages.

The concept Freedom has a lot to talk about, but the most important and resumed parts according to Savater are the 3 types of Freedom:

1)Freedom as the capacity to act according to one's own desire or projects. (This is the most common meaning of freedom, and the most used.) This is when there are no impossibilities to act the way we want to act.

2)The freedom to want what we want and not just to do, or attempt to do, what we want. This means that if there are impossibilities, no one can stop us from wanting other things. For example if there's a paralitic person, no one can stop him for wanting to walk, or to have the desire to be somewhere else, so we are always free to want, to desire.
3) The freedom to want that which we do not want, and of not wanting what in fact we want. This last type of freedom seems strange and comlex to me, but finally I did understand it by using the next example. Sometimes I am what I want to be, but at the same time I wish to be different. Savater uses a clear example about a house that's on fire with a baby crying inside. If you are walking outside the house and you hear that crying, of course you desire to go inside and rescue that baby, but obviously you are afraid to go inside because you know it's dangerous, but at the same time you wish to had the desire to go inside and save him. This helps us understand that we have the freedom to want to be better, etc.
So to not make this longer, being 100% free is not an easy thing because we have to take care of responsabilities of all types, but at the same time it's amazing because freedom is yours, no one else owns your freedom.

What is Beauty?

Hello readers, in this blog I am going to talk about Beauty. Beauty is a word that has many definitions. Everyone sees beauty in different ways, for example what is most beautiful for me in this world are things from nature, I adore going to cruise-ships and just enjoy the beautiful views, I love seeing water, lakes and trees. My dream is to live in a lake-house some place in Canada and wake up and smell the fresh trees, then going fishing and enjoying nature. This is what I really call beauty and what I think is beautiful but in the other hand for example my friend Jose has a different definition of beauty, what he thinks is beautiful is going to museums and viewing the pieces of art or big towers like the Eiffel tower. Another example can be the ways of seeing women, for example, Mario a really close friend of mine cares a lot of their outside, he prefers dating a very hot girl than a nice girl, but me I prefer dating someone very nice and that I know she loves me and cares about me. So in conclusion everyone sees beauty in different ways, somethings are beautiful for some people but for others are not. So beauty is what really pleases us and what we really enjoy, beauty is what makes us enjoy life, imagine if everything looks ugly for you? that would it not be life, just think a little bit imagine a house with out furniture and with no decoration? so beauty is an essential thing for life.

Freedom in Action

The Chapter Freedom In Action is the one I have liked the most so far, I found it very interesting. I like it a lot because it talks different things about freedom. For me freedom is a right everyone should have but a lot of people does not know how to use it. Freedom is for me the most valuable thing in life and I feel terrible for the people that can not use their freedom, for example people that are kidnapped or salves. A lot of people does not know how to use freedom and they take advantage of it by steeling things or harming other people. People I think are not free are people that lives in countries like Cuba where they are not able to go out of their county or even they can not decide who they want to govern them. I think that if you do not make a good use of your freedom you will have consequences like for example if you decide to steel you will get caught and you will go to jail or even if you do not get caught it will go back to you some day just as Newton said " For every action there is a reaction". As a conclusion we all should know how to use our freedom and not take advantage of it, and enjoy it because not all the people in this world are born with freedom.

domingo, 18 de octubre de 2009

EVERYONE ACTS !!!!! EVERYONE IS FREE TO ACT !!

Hello fellow readers, well this chapter is one of my favorites of the book "quesitons of life" by Feranando Savater. This chapter talks about the freedom of our actions and why we act. Well there are many things that make us act.

Freedom is a very simple but wide term. Freedom is the liberty to do whatever you want. This involves the actions you take beacuse you want to. I think that we are free to act and to do whatever we want to, but we need to be aware of the consequences, or the things that are involves in the actions you take. Freedom is the difference between choosing what you wan to do, but the tricky part is how you want to do it, to obtain it.

Our actions can be voluntary or unvoluntary actions. The voluntary actions are the actions that you do beacause you have a reason or something that motivates you to do the action. This kind of action is already planned. The involuntary actions are the actions that your brain automatically do. An example can be when you close and open your eyes. This kind of action you don't controll it. An action that can be voluntary can be when you want to go to the bathroom. LOL.

You are free in this world. The most important points is what you want to do in this world? What are the limits of your freedom? Where do you want to go? I really like this chapter because I think freedom of act is something really important in our lifes, that we need to understand it and to have clear the concepts.

Thanks..


jueves, 15 de octubre de 2009

To act is not to be free

to act is to say that we decide to move, is the process of doing. but it is not the action alone, i believe it is accompanied with an intention, that motive that incites us to do what we want to do and to concrete the action. acting for an intention is to satisfy a need, that need that either its fundamental for people or that need we had produced from another need. many people i know say that they are not free because their parents prohibid them a lot of things, but i say that they are still free because they decide to obey or disobey and that is what action is about. action itself is not so important, but the things that accompany the are important, what is expected and the reason for doing the action are also important. it could not be that you act without an intention, maybe you don't have clear what the intention is but still maybe in the unconscious you can identify the intention. i believe that people expect freedom to be liberty of action and that is not freedom for me. for me freedom is everything involved with the action, freedom of deciding the intention freedom of acting it and freedom to be responsible or not of the consequences, and many people don't expect freedom to be like that but they could consider it, freedom can be misunderstood with other concepts and that is why everyone needs to read more about freedom or talk about it so that other people can understand what freedom has, not only the action, the consequences of it too.

martes, 13 de octubre de 2009

Freedom in Action

About this chapter in the book, we can start about talking about if our actions are that really voluntary, as they seem they are. But when we talk about voluntary and you start thinking, its gets more complicated than we thought is not just the voluntary where you just do the things you want, sometimes you make your actions because you have to do them for the best. For example if you are in a building on fire and you have to go out, you will find any way to go out and survive even trough the fire, you made the actions but that does not means that you wanted to get burned by the fire. But you decided to do it so that is what we call freedom responding as we wish to with our free will.

Why do we still have the freedom to choose between good or bad, yes or no, everything; if it can be possible that our life have been already planed by someone else and no response can change my future because what happens was meant to happen any way. Depending on your culture, religious and other thinks this may change a lot but stills keeps you thinking about our freedom that we have or a least that we suppose to have.

lunes, 5 de octubre de 2009

UNIVERSE


Lately, everytime the word UNIVERSE comes to my head I get frustrated because I can´t understand what does it means on its totallity. By searching on google, it says that " The Universe comprises everything that physically exists, the entirety of space and time, all forms of matter and energy, and the physical laws and constants that govern them. However, the term Universe may be used in slightly different contextual senses, denoting such concepts as the cosmos, the world, or Nature." I understand that the meaning of Universe is everything, however, the part that the universe is infinite is the part where I don´t understand, but at the same time I do because ok; maybe it has an end, but what is after that end. This is very confusing and I also think it is amazing how everything was formed exactly in order to exist. We survive thanks to the food there is, that food exists because water and other factors, etc. I really hope someday we get a reasonable answer!
hi everyone,, well this chapter contains really important information about ourselves and the world that surronds us. This chapter is very wide because it explains the worlds and how it realets to us. Imagine you standing outside your house compared with the whole Universe. Do you think you are part of it? Do you think that you are a big part of it? Well there are tons of questions that we could ask to us about the universe. Savater explains the universe and its components. For example, a stone is part of a mountian, that mountain is part of a country, that country is part of the whole world. The world has many components that makes part of it.

The most confusing part of this chapter for me, was when savater explains what is light and heavy universe. I really don't understand that part. But what I know is that the world is gigantic and what savater wants to make us understand is that we are part of that universe. Everyone makes part of the universe. You could make the difference in this world.

But the big question of this chapter is: Who invented the universe? and why does he invented? I believe that God is the one who created this universe and all that surronds it. It depends in what you believe, in the book says that no human or thing is able to create a universe, and I agree with this argument because the universe is gigantic and it have many components and details that are part of it. This is interesting topics is what makes philosophy, things that we don't know for sure why they are here and who invented it.


jueves, 1 de octubre de 2009

the world and its outskirts

i saw a lot of quotes on the book of fernando savater that were thoughtful, true and confusing.
i didn't understand everything he said in this chapter, but i still tried to do analyze what we was trying mean. in the beginning he comments about something i had already thought before. fernando savater says that we are within a world which every person belongs to, every person is part of a world. but it is not the same to think that we are part of a world than to think we own a world. when we are part of a world, i think we see ourselves, like the chapter before meant from the outside, we see our function in the world among living, and non-living bodies. i think when we see humans from this angle it is more possible to look the world as a place where a group of different bodies carry out a function. it is less fun when you look it that way, because you appear to be one among millions, and your function looks micro compared to different bodies or processes.

when we think we own a world, everythings becomes more interesting. we think we are the center of everything that happens, we see everything moving near us and think what we do is going to change how things are, at least near us. we become more important, and everything comes to be part of our world, as if we were the essence of the world that is receiving movement or reactions from outter bodies. i think thats why a lot of humans stay in the small worlds, to feel we are the masters of it.

martes, 29 de septiembre de 2009

The world and its outskirts


Even if this chapter "The world and its outskirts" is kind of confusing, I think it is also very interesting and you can find parts were you just want to know more, you question things that you will have never thought of questioning. For example when were you going to ask your self what was the universe or when were you going to use the universe with light and heavy, were light is all things that are in reality and heavy as an object of which all other objects are part. Or have you ever question what those materialism have to do with this world, well if we talk of materialism you will always think in pleasure over things for example best cloths, cars etc. but that is not materialism in philosophy or in our world we can say, materialism the things that made up our universe, in which are composed of atoms that would eventually break down. I read this part and didn’t actually understand it until it make sense that it can have more meanings than just one. Our world may consist in very interesting facts that we don’t know but if we keep searching and questioning I think we could be able to find a lot of things that will keep us awake.

lunes, 28 de septiembre de 2009

THE WORLD AND ITS OUTSKIRTS

What I found really interesting on chapter 5 "The World and its Outskirts" is when Fernando talks about "our world", which I think it is very true, there are different levels starting from our near people and expanding to the the whole world or even farther. I think this is interesting because every person lives first in his own little world that is his close friends, his family, the people he sees in school every day, etc.. Then other levels can be the whole city of Torreon, or even the entire country, after we can find the whole international community and going farther the whole world which we all live in. There are much more other levels going father like the solar system or why not the whole universe. As you can see there are many different levels but what I found most interesting is "my world" because I started thinking about other persons in other cities, countries, and realize every person in this world has his own little world, his own groups of friends, his own cultures. After I think of this I realize how many different cultures, languages, habits exists in this world and that even do there are millions of different persons in this world we all come from the same place and will go to the same place. Other thing I found interesting is when Savater says " by the why, what is most noteworthy in this series of worlds is that most those most vitally important to me are precisely the smallest and narrowest. I am far more worried about a gas fleak in my flat or an earthquake in my country than about the colossal conflagrations of heavenly bodies." I stared to think about this and I found it is true I am 100% more worried of my house getting in fire than Iran throwing a bomb near my country this means that I am more worried of narrowest things than bigger problems.

viernes, 25 de septiembre de 2009

THE SYMBOLIC ANIMAL

I found this chapter very interesting, because it starts by giving an introduction about what is to be a “human". To be human is to be capable to do more things than animals. That’s why it is so extraordinary being a human being. We can communicate to each other by using words, signs, etc. Human has also the ability to protect itself against the weather conditions, also to foresee possible future threats and find solutions or ways to avoid them; to discover cures to several illnesses; and to make use (bad or good) to all these skills and more. We are free. People often question if we are animals or not. By my point of view, we definitively aren’t just by one fact: we use reason. As it is said in one of the past chapters, by reasoning we know that someday we are gonna die, and in the other hand, animals just are aware of danger, but it’s not in their knowledge that someday they are going to die and “stop existing”.

One question I have, and everybody can spend long time questioning is where did language and all of the symbols we use to communicate started? If we take the theory that our ancestors invented them, and with the time language has improved, its impressive and impacting how languages, symbols, signs and everything have developed.

jueves, 24 de septiembre de 2009

human the unsatisfyed animal

a quote that savater said in this chapter is the best definition i can find for naming us the human beings , savater said that human beings were the unsatisfied animals, its true because humans always want more, we are never going to stop, we are always changing and inventing new things.

this is why language was invented, humans needed to evolve to become better, to construct new things, to improve everything and an easy way to achieve this was communicating so a whole different kinds of symbols where invented by human beings. now we have developed a way to desifrate a whole bunch of different symbols and why ? because we are never satisfied.

comparing animals with humans as said they are satisfied human beings, they dont really evolve or change, only when savater human beings train them, but a normal animal joust needs to live eat and sleep that may be some of the reasons we are superiors to animals.

but why are we superior than animals ?
one more aspect that i want to mention is that animals act with they-re instincts instead us humans we act with our brains we develop ideas, thoughts, necessities, and allot of different emotions that animals dont feel.

ANIMALS !!!!!!!

This is my favorite chapter of this book. It is really interesting, Spohcles is trying to describe us the relations and meanings of the animals with humans. They describe that humans learn symbols like the animals. Humans start to understand the meanings of the symbols with the time.

The most important thing that I have in my mind is where those this symbols come from? Who was the person or the thing that invented? How do humans and animals understand this symbols? It is really interestning were all this symbols come from. They came from generation to generation, also the culture is very important because it is what gives a certain number of humans or animals to follow their culture without missing it.

In the actual world we have all the technology, scientists and philosphers who really are focused to understand this symbols and find what it means to us. They have very useful tools that helps them have an idea of what the symbol means or try to believe something that they mean. Maybe we are all wrong, no one have the evidence or a proof what the symbols means.
It's quite interesting knowing and discovering new symbols for our culture.

I really don't believe in some theory's or ideas that are presented in the book. I am catholic and I believe that we all are sons of Adan and Eve, and that Adan and Eve were created by God and God is the one that created humans and animals. God marked the difference between a human and an animal. A human has a heart, and many spiritual energy inside, and an animal has a more simple brain and heart. They dont think.

In conclusion, I think that we all are really different from animals, and we as a human have something very valuable that are our brain and heart. No other species is like us.
HUMANS ROCK!!!

martes, 22 de septiembre de 2009

The symbolic animal

Are we the kind of humans as Sophocles, that have the capacity to control natural forces, the time passes and we even control them more with all the technology; that have the abilities and supplements for hunting and taming other living things, that have a language and have thoughts so we can communicated with everyone and express all kinds of feelings, that finds it way out trough illnesses always doing the best they can to have a cure for everything, also the ability to protect us with any change of the weather and finally the most important one the ability to choose between right or wrong. With our fate and thoughts we can see or wonder what its good and what isn't. Or you can think maybe as Pico thought were he compared us humans with animals saying we're are more happy animals, he said that is not what we have but what we want to do, we humans have the knowledge that animals don't have to create something or to thinks bigger as we do.
Maybe your will go with Sophocles idea because that what you see all days happen in our world and you don't want to be compare with an animal who isn't as you are. But we can me just as an animal but changing and reproducing all the time, maybe we grow faster that they do and get more knowledge but it can happen that someday they will be just like us.

lunes, 21 de septiembre de 2009

i think therefore i exist rene descartes

I think, therefore I am
when i was reading this chapter in the book questions of life i stopeed and started thinking mmm , he is right this is the only thing we canot question ourselves, rene descartes is right , you think you live you laugh, you run, you have feelings those things are unquestionable things for yourself.

but not every body thinks like this some people may have questions like we have been talking in class maybe someone would say, do i have feelings or are they only an illusions, an imaginary thing or what can they be do i really have them this is a very crepy questions some people might ask themselves what i think is that every thing i feel and every thing that i can see offcourse exists, compared to savater he questions himself about the existense of things he might be right we might be an illusion or an imaginary thing.

by thinking you can imagine and make thinks up but this might also be a prove thath you exist so you can star thinking these quote alot and try to find the best answear for yourself.

The Symbolic Animal

In this blog I am going to talk about what Fernando Savater talks of Giovani Pico della Mirandola, I think what he says about human, being the most happy animals is interesting and very original also that everything that exist occupies a place by god, but what really keep me into thinking was that he says that "the mos wonderful thing about man is that he remains open and undetermined" by this he means that everything in this world occupies a place and it can not be changed but God onle half-created humans so we can by ourself define what or whom we want to be if we want to choose the right pad or the bad one. I agree what Giovani sais human are capable of doing tremendous things to the world through technological ability or rational language and I also agree when he says that "man`s dignity derives from his being the "happiest most fortunate of creatures" while Sophocles will never agree to this. In this chapter I really started questioning that maybe we are animals but a really smart race,is true what Fernando says that maybe we give ourself animals names for example when someone is a coward they call him chicken or when someone is ignorant they call him asses but in the other hand as Fernando says I want to have some characteristics of some animals like courage, loyalty, etc.

jueves, 17 de septiembre de 2009

THE FAMOUS I !!!!

There is a very famous quote that our firend and philospher Descartes said in the book of questions of life. The quote is "I think, therefore I am". Its a very interesting quote that make my mind to question it. This quote is to argue, and many people are going to have different opinions and ideas of it. Some philosphers have argue this quote, like David Hume. I really agree with Descartes because our brain thinks that he are the person we are, and that makes us believe who we are.

Also our brain is telling us to us or makes us belief that we are real people living in a real world, and we don't know this for sure. Fernando Savater in this chapter makes many controversial questions like the one we discuss in class, that was imagine that we are in a dream, and we dont exist. Of course I believe that I exist and that this is not a dream. I am catholic and I belive in god, and I believe that this is not a dream. Many people can have different ideas, but this is what my brain is telling me.

I think that if all this was a dream. Who cares really? I don't mind and you neither. You will continue with your life in the same way. It is not going to change you. Only it is going to bring you more questions to your head, and you will be asking: why is this a dream?
THIS IS REAL WORLD BABY ! ! ! ENJOY IT ! !

martes, 15 de septiembre de 2009

I inside, I outside

In this chapter of the book, I inside, I outside, what keep me more interested was the idea that we are all leaving in a dream. By asking this question we can all see that everyone, every philosopher can solve in different ways this question, they could say that we’re victims of someone, that we’re preparing for real life or maybe that its a dream were we just fight against problems. As Savater said how could be just be dreaming if when we are a sleep we also dream. We might be on a dream but when we wake up maybe were not going to remember anything, or maybe we will start another dream or maybe we will just wake up for a day a think that we were never dreaming and that the last day I was awake have just pass. But why when we are dreaming sometime we dream of thinks that you have all ready live or why is there always people you know and all most every time with the people that you love the most, think the most, or the ones that you pass all day with. I think what were living in this moment isn’t a dream because what would we call the imaginations we have a night when were are a sleep, aren’t those dreams?

lunes, 14 de septiembre de 2009

I inside, I outside

The chapter I inside, I outside for me is, lets call it "weird", the question fernando asks himself "What if we are just brains floating around in a bottle full of preserving liquid and some cruel Maritian scientist is subjecting us to a virtual experiment?" I think this question is going to far, I am not saying this is a dumb question because I understand that philosophers think of everything possible and they go very deep into things but me in my personal thoughts I do not think reality is a dream, I think reality is what we are living and what we are going to live, for me reality is: we born, we grow, we live our life's, we enjoy moments of life just as we suffer sometimes, then we all are going to die. I am not saying this 100% true but because this is what I know this is what reality is for me. Nothing will make me change my thinking, nothing in this world will make me believe that we are in a dream or that "we are victims of a malignant spirit, powerful as a god and wicked as a devil who spend his time constantly misleading us". As Fernando said in the chapter "How can we always be dreaming when the very notion of dream only makes sense in contrast with our waking moments" I believe more in this question than in all the others he asks. So as you can see I believe more in the real world and I think that is the only reality, why thinking in things we are never going to find they are true?

domingo, 6 de septiembre de 2009

The Truth

In this chapter Fernando Savater talks about the Truths, and all the arguments, experience, belifs and reasons that are involved.

In this chapter I realized that there are many truths. For example the field of truths. That there are many truths depending on your belifs, culture etc. An excellent example is the sun. The sun in astronomy is a gigantic star that has very high temperatures. In some religions the sun is a god. When we have a truth of something, it is not the real truth, it is something close to the real truth or something that we as a humans want to believe or understand.

There are many questions that I have in my mind that I dont have the truth. For example, Who decides wheter you die or live? There are many questions that we don't have the real truth, or he have something close to the truth. That is Jesus, this is depending on your religion, but the real truth we dont have it. You have to believe in your own truths.

There are many things that from this chapter make me think. Like the Mexican History, How do we know that Pancho Villa was a real hero. Maybe it was a legend, or this story has passed from generation to generation, but we don't have proofs or evidence to support this truth. This truth is what we believe it is the real truth.

We dont know the real truth for sure in many things. Maybe it is going to be discoverd the real truth for some things.

thruts of reason

This chapter made my think alot, like allways this man fernando satre makes my mind start thinking and thinking about things i know scince i was a litle guy, this man talks about in this chapter about the thruts we now how he can question if a pencil is yellor or black ? he says that every single person has its own thruts and we cannot prove them right or wrong because thins are allways changing, "there are always things to check things to check" this quote that he said it is a very true thing well for me beacues the only thrut we have is that things change so new trues will come so we need to allways be cheking things to stay along with our belives.

viernes, 4 de septiembre de 2009

Truths of Reason


As it is said in chapter 3, reason is something that is given to all human beings. We all have born with it, but not everyone is smart enought to use it in a total way. In nowadys, all the technology that surrounds us has make us kind of lazy to think and make use of reason. For example using a calculator; obviously there are operations that are almost impossible for humans to answer, but most that are answerable my thinking, just because they are long to solve we use the calculator instead of reason and logic. Reason is something we have to practice every single day so we can improve it. Of course there are some things were using a lot of reason isn't helpful, there are many questions about what surrounds us without an answer that logic and reason won't make us understand. What if all of the teories about universe are wrong and out there in the space there is and end and something more is out there? For example what is told about the universe that is infinite, we can't imagine it nor understanding even making sense of reason. We will never completely understand what the word infinite means because we don't know infinite.

martes, 1 de septiembre de 2009

The Truth of Reason

The truth of reason
In this chapter what keep me thinking was the quote said by Antonio Machado
Your truth? No, Truth;
Come seek it with me,
As for yours, you can keep it.
by reading this words i realized that what we said isn't Truth is just a think that we want to believe is truth or also get closer to what is real, but how do we know is the real Truth?, if we have prove of something those it means is true? What if your prove is wrong and Scientifics had mistakes in their experiments. But we can not be all time questioning our selves and not believing in nothing, we have to be realistic, we also have beliefs since we were little that will help us answer questions and found the truth of everything but we have to realize that there are going to be other truth's that will make us doubt in everything, because everything changes in different cultures even the capital name or the flag. Now a days this world thinks every thing is easy and can be remove very easily but you don't know until you experience something. So even if your truth isn’t the Truth you have to believe in yourself.

lunes, 31 de agosto de 2009

The Truths of Reason

I have millions questions about life just as Fernando Savater. The main questions I always ask to myself are where do we come from?,What is the purpose of life? Why do we have to work a lot for things if at the end we are going to end with nothing? Just as Fernando and I think this happen to everyone, is that those question always come back to me when I am thinking deeply. What really make me think deep was the question Fernando asked "How can I know what it is that I want to know?" "What I am looink for when I ask this questions?" My question is Why I am asking this questions to myself I am am never going to get the answer? This chapter really put me into thinking "Who can sure me that what today is thought to be true will not be discarded tomorrow?", maybe things I have learn during the past years will be wrong. Starting today things that I learn I will examine them and think them deeply to assure myself they are right. Going back from the beginning and what is always on my mind is Why I am studying hard, working a lot and forcing myself into a better me if someday I am going to die and end up with absolutely nothing? I think all this things I do is to enjoy my life and live it at the fullest because life I have only one, so all this working will help me in my future to have a good life.

viernes, 28 de agosto de 2009

WHAT DOY YOU THINK ABOU DEATH?

Have you ever wonder when are you going to die? That's a very serious question that everybody has in their heads, well in this chapter it talks about death and everything that relates to it. It seems scary this topic, but is reality.

The Death is not transferable, for example if a dog dies or someone dies you are not going to die because they died.

Have you ever think to be afraid about death? Well I think that death is something mysteriuos that no one knows exactly what happends. I think that you don't need to be afraid of death, you need to live the present and don't think to much what's going to happend to you in the future. Everyone dies, it is a part in life that everyone accomplish it. No one has died and returned to live to explain what happen when you die. It depends a lot in your religion, in what are your belifs. For example if you are catholic, they say that when you die you go to heaven with Jesus Christ and all the people that have died. Personally, I am catholic and I belive that you go to heaven with Jesus and you have an eternal happy life.

Humans have this question that is jumping in their minds, no one can answer you this question. There are many important questions that we have in our minds, but no one can tell us the answer, and this gives us a lot of excitment.

why death

why death? why do we have to dye death is a very scary thing to think about. it is very confusiong why do we have to end why do we have to stop living it is a very wierd thing how can we end life where
do we go this is a question i ask my self every day how can i die do we all go to heaven o do we all go to hell
may be our soul will keep living but for sure our body putrefactates and stops working , would we able to see our family when we die or do we all never now what happened with us when we are death
what i think about death is that we die then our body putrefactates our it is burned then our soul goes to a place like a purgatory or may be heaven where we are gonna see all our ansesters , may be
it is a wierd thinking bue thats what i belive.i was researching about death and a quickly definition of death is :
the event of dying or departure from life;
this is a big thruth the event of departure from life you go away and stop living but how ? we'll never go until we expirence it. we dont have to fear death becuase we never feared to be burn and to live you have to die so dont fear death

miércoles, 26 de agosto de 2009

Let us begin with death

Thinking about the word death, sounds scarry because it is an irreversible step in life where we come to an end. But we die and where do we go? This is a question that has different answers depending on what you're based on. For example if you are on science's side, death is the irreversible termination of biological function, and when you die nothing happens but your body stops working and your "energy" is lost forever. But on the other side, according to religion death is passing to a "better world", depending on how you were on earth (is you were a good person you go to heaven and if you were a bad person you go to hell) and you "live" or pass to eternity, but really no one know because those who are alive haven't experienced, and those who are dead can't tell us how it is to be dead. I'm really not afraid to die, but what I'm afraid of is of the way that I'm gonna die. I just hope that I don't get to suffer in the last moments of my life, and I also hope there's more after death than just stop exsiting in a total way.

martes, 25 de agosto de 2009

Let us begin with death

How many times have you think on what is going to happen after you die? Is there another world? Will you change?.
I think you die because you have to, because al humans are mortal, I don’t think you die on a specific day, hour or year, you will die because your day has come, and every one is in the same distance from death. As Montaihne said “we do not die because we are ill but because we are alive”,
But how do we know that we are a live? It can be that we are just living a dream that we don’t what to wake up, maybe this is just a preparation for death or we are just in a wired place that any one knows.
Epicurus said why fear something if we haven’t experienced it. It could be something better, a world full with happiness, where there is not suffering, and where every one is in peace.
There are a lot of questions that we have or we once had about death but I think the only way to solve them is by experiencing them and now we just have to live full of doubts until we reach the point we want to.

lunes, 24 de agosto de 2009

Death

Sooner or later we are going to die, but still we do not know exactly when or how or where are we going after death. The author talking about mortality is very interesting, he explains that plants and animal are not mortal because they do not know they are going to die, we are mortal because we do know we are going to die, I think this is an interesting definition. As the author said "Others have died, all have died, all will die" but have I really think am going to die too? Usually when I think about this I get nervous because I am afraid of death, I know this sounds stupid because as all the others one day I am going to die, but I have a lot of questions about death. Where am I going after death? What will happen to me? those are the main questions I ask to myself when thinking about my own death. Every person in this world is at the "same distance from death" everyone can die anytime no matter their health or age. I wish I could know when death is near so I can live the days before my death at the fullest and not worrying at anything like work, health etc. I do not know why I am afraid of death what I do know is that we will never be able of discover what exactly death is.

viernes, 21 de agosto de 2009

philosophy today

Philosophy is somehting very interesting that everybody need to have knowledge of it. Philosphy is essential to an adult. I think that is better to study this when you have the right age because some kids wouldn't pay attention to this. In life there are questions that you cannot answer. For example, When you are going to die? It's a very complicated question that everybody is anxious. I am afraid of this question, and if someone know the answer I don't want to know it. When you become a teenager you become to ask questions to you that are important for you but you don't know the answer. Philosophy helps you analyze these questions, it doesn't gives you the answer, but it help you visualise and get the idea or a solution to your question. I think philosphy contains many history of ancient civilisations and religions. Honestly I think philosphy is very usefull in your life. I think it contians to much information of many different things, and helps you open your mind to a new galaxy. Recently I didn't pay too much attention to questions like why we are living? Since the class started I care more because I want to know more about philosphy and how it can help me in real life.

why philosphy

this semester we are gonna study the wierdest science in the world
we sre gonna study phylosohy , why the wierdest science ? because
this scince is based in our own knowledge we dont have data like scintist
have in biology or phyics we write our we express joust what we think .
some people dont like thinking deeply but why not why dont we stop a second
and start thinking were are we from why are we here, why do we die why do we get
sick what are viruses, why do people kill themselves, there are alot of questions without
answear, you can even think days and days and you may not get a good answear
for these questions. in this class we are gonna stop an hour of our day to think deeply
about lots of things. so as i see it was a very good idea to take these class for this
semester where we are getting ready to real life

miguel quintero estrella

miércoles, 19 de agosto de 2009

Why Philosophy?

A lot of students wonder, why do we have to study philosophy? The answer is simple but a lot of student dont see this as an important course because they dont understand the true meaning of philosophy. I have been reading definitions of philosophy and as I read I realize why this is very important to study, just as math or science. First, philosphy is very good for practicing our readings. Reading is important and useful in all of the proffesions. The University of Alberta says " philosophy is regarded as the endeavour and the product of an age long since outgrown by developed society. It is seen in the light of the disciplines which today dominate academia. These are disciplines which are largely concerned with contributing toward a particular vocation" This explains the importance of philosophy. People say philosophy is important in all subjects and also proffessions. At the beggining of the year, I really did not saw at all any importance in philosophy but as time goes by and I learing more and I am understanding how important is this course. I am not saying I am going to major in philosophy but at least I am going to see this course just as important as math or any other course.

Why Philosophy?


In Philosophy's class, as its name "Philosophy" says, we've got to think and try to answer those questions that no one have ever got to an answer in the entire life, for example like in Fernando Savater's book, a very popular and questionable question, "What is death"? As we know, everybody when we born, our final destiny comes to die. Death is something inevitable, and natural for humans, because as Fernando Savater wrote on his book (The quesitions of life), humans, which has the same meaning as mortals, have to pass through the face of death. Many people, and I would say that most of the people are afraid to die, and I will accept that I'm obviously afraid for that moment to happen, but if I start thinking, I'm not afraid to die, I'm just afraid of how my death will be. I think life is too short to worry about stupid things, so we have to live as if every moment was the last because we don't know when our time will end. Life, there's just one, so we should spend our time saying positive and helpful things to people, not negative ones. Always try to be good with everyone and try to help every time you can. As I already said, we are all going to die, as horrible as it sounds, so we better live our life to the fullest!


martes, 18 de agosto de 2009

Why philosophy?

I haven’t been interested in philosophy through out my whole life but now that I have a class that I have to pass I think I have to be at least a bit interested. I’m not the kind of girl as Fernando Savater said with “A philosophical vocation”.
Sometimes it comes to my mind a question. A question that I think all of you have had, that kind of question where you don’t know what path to take or you don’t know from where to start answering, what to trust or not. The question of where do we go after we die? And I haven’t quiet found an answer. But how am I going to find an answer if even one of the most important philosophers Socrates said “I only know that I know nothing”, we are not going to find an specific answer and if we did so there will be still people that are not going to be satisfied with it, so why are we still questioning ourselves if we are not going to find an answer to it.
Philosophy always tries to find an answer to every question, this world is compost of all kinds of questions that no one knows its answers.
We can use philosophy as a hobby or as a conversation with some one but not as a passion. What are they getting from it?, How would they know if they are right or wrong?, and a lot of philosophers have already question all kinds of questions, so why philosophy?