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.

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.

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.

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!!!

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.

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.

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 ! !

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?

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?

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.

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.

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.