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.