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?