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.

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.

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.

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.

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!!!

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?

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.