I really want to talk about this chapter for many different reasons. The most interesting thing while reading this chapter was the three humiliations we have received. These humiliations are about what people believe and then someone proves it the other way. I mean, everyone in the planet believes in something and then one guy comes up with a proven fact which makes the belief incorrect.
The first one is the discovery of Copernicus, Galileo, and Kepler. They said that Earth was not the center of the universe as everybody thought. It is not as majestic and privileged as the people believed in the ancient times. The Earth orbits around the sun as 8 other planets. Then the second one is said by Darwin. He demonstrated that humans are not by God in his own image but stem. He proved that humans are evolved like that because of mutations in our genes and by his theory of "Survival for the fittest" he proved that we evolved from primates. And then the last one was Sigmund Freud, and he transformed our soul or consciousness in something far from transparent influenced by unconscious impulses. For me it is very interesting because it definitely believe in these “Theories” more than what people think. I rather trust in science than anything else because most of the facts are proven. So why should we keep trusting people?
Also I want to say that as science proves it, I believe we’re just animals but in difference to them, we have a complex brain which let us think more than using the instinct as animals.
I think that these three humiliations have proven that we make mistakes. This relates to what Savater said about animals succeed very often in comparison with humans; we act depending on many variables. Also I will like to relate these humiliations with the fact that we are use our intelligence not only for the purpose of survival as animals do. We use our intelligence to create needs and thoughts that doesn’t relate to our survival, like knowing if we are in the center of the world, or if we come from God’s image or an ape’s image. Good job Alejandro.
ResponderEliminarI agree with you Alejandro, I do not think that we are superior to animals just because God created us, I think that we are only more developed than animals because we have evolved a lot more than them. I believed that God created another species of animal and that with time we have evolved more than every other species on earth.
ResponderEliminarAlejandro, I dont think that those people or philosphers dont have the right to humilliate us. They don't have the enogh proofs to do that. I truely believe in religion and culture more than this philosphers honestly. I agree with you when you talk about science, and science have proofs,explanations,differences,comparisions,DNA, the science gives you all the usefull information to use it as a base of comparison between humans and animals, and were do we come from. NICE WORK
ResponderEliminarI think you have a really good argument saying that we have been humiliated 3 times. It is not our knowledge the only one that has been humiliated, but also us as humans because we are the ones that created these theories. It is also important how some really influential characters in our history made these humiliations.
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