I think that if something is beautiful, it is beautiful. If you read this you would say that it is dumb to say that, because it is obvious that if someting is beautiful, it is beautiful. I will explain the sense of this.
I don't agree at all with Plato. Savater wrote that Plato thinks that artists find ways to produce pleasure, and that the people that control pleasure have power over the eductacion of the people, that is to say that artists guide a bad education for the people because they teach what should not be taught, or in a wrong way.
I think Plato is crazy. An artist is not a person who is trying to teach other people the way reality should or should not be, the artist is that, an artist. I think Plato should think more about the relation of the piece of art with the person who sees it, and not in the artist. I think people is free to think what they want, and also people is free to show what they want, it is our decision to accept it or not.
I think that something beautiful is something that produces a pleasure in people, that could have more purposes besides of pleasing. I think something beautiful is that which you like to see, hear or touch and that thing you find unique.
lunes, 16 de noviembre de 2009
FREEDOM IN ACTION
I think freedom is misunderstood with libertinism. My friends say they want to do whatever they want in the place and moment they want. When my friends do not have a permission from their parents to go out a saturday night or something like that, is when they say that their parents give them no freedom, they say that if they were free they would do many more things they can not do right now.
I think that is not freedom, I think that is libertinism because if a person wants to do whatever he wants but his parents are the people who give him shelter clothes money and many more things, then they have this kind of control over your possibilities in economy, permissions and other things.
In here I thik they do have freedom. Opposite to what they say, they have the freedom to think what they want to think, they have the freedom to do whatever they want but if they want to come back to their houses or do not get their parents angry at them, then they should see that there are consequences or responsibilities.
Freedom is something you have, is not something that a person can totally take away from you. People can keep you in a locked room, but you are free to think what you want, you can be a person but be free to wish to be a better person and you can be mentally abused but you are free to run away, just that there will be consequences, you decide what you think is better.
I think that is not freedom, I think that is libertinism because if a person wants to do whatever he wants but his parents are the people who give him shelter clothes money and many more things, then they have this kind of control over your possibilities in economy, permissions and other things.
In here I thik they do have freedom. Opposite to what they say, they have the freedom to think what they want to think, they have the freedom to do whatever they want but if they want to come back to their houses or do not get their parents angry at them, then they should see that there are consequences or responsibilities.
Freedom is something you have, is not something that a person can totally take away from you. People can keep you in a locked room, but you are free to think what you want, you can be a person but be free to wish to be a better person and you can be mentally abused but you are free to run away, just that there will be consequences, you decide what you think is better.
------THE WORLD AND ITS OUTSKIRTS------
Think it like this:
You live in the city, you go to work every day at that business building. You wake up in the morning, you see your watch you take a shower you buy burritos in the street on your way to work, you do paper work, you finish the day tired, you go home sleep and wake up the next day to continue the rutine. On saturdays you go to the bar with your friends, you drink a beer and on sunday you rest and call your relatives by phone.
That is an example of the world that many people live in this moment. They do not go farther than what they live, they stay the same and one day they die like everybody else. They did not look beyond the city, they did not adventure themselves into the forest that was 10 km from the city, they did not wake up every morning and see the sky and the sun.
I try to say that people live their lives in a small world and they are good with it. I think people find it tiring to go out and see what is out there, because they feel good with what they have, they feel they do not need anything more and because of that like to stay in the middle of walls contructed by them. Anyways, one day a tsunami is going to hit those walls, and when that happens, they will start to see what else is out there, when everything falls down people have to find a way to survive.
You live in the city, you go to work every day at that business building. You wake up in the morning, you see your watch you take a shower you buy burritos in the street on your way to work, you do paper work, you finish the day tired, you go home sleep and wake up the next day to continue the rutine. On saturdays you go to the bar with your friends, you drink a beer and on sunday you rest and call your relatives by phone.
That is an example of the world that many people live in this moment. They do not go farther than what they live, they stay the same and one day they die like everybody else. They did not look beyond the city, they did not adventure themselves into the forest that was 10 km from the city, they did not wake up every morning and see the sky and the sun.
I try to say that people live their lives in a small world and they are good with it. I think people find it tiring to go out and see what is out there, because they feel good with what they have, they feel they do not need anything more and because of that like to stay in the middle of walls contructed by them. Anyways, one day a tsunami is going to hit those walls, and when that happens, they will start to see what else is out there, when everything falls down people have to find a way to survive.
THE SYMBOLIC ANIMAL
Every day I see disasters on the TV, every day I see images of people in the world who is having difficulties to survive, every day many people die of hunger, sicknesses and others by violence.
There is something wrong with this world that people are dying. But I also see people that help, people that travel long distances to give water to those who need it, or people that make protests to stop violence, or people who discover new medications for sick people.
I don't believe a man can change to whatever he wants, dude we are not Mystic of x-men or Superman. I think it is wrong interpreted when people say they can do whatever, or they can control nature because that is what a man does. I think it is more than speaking of a man, I think tha Sophocles or Savater wanted to tell us that when people are unified they can do whatever they want because maybe an ability that one has, the other does not have and what this man needs the other one has, that is the way man can change and adapt himself, only when we live together, when we share our abilities with others and when we search for the good of everyone and not of ourselves. We can be superhumanity but we can not be a one superman, I think that is the best way the world would work, when people forget that they live for themselves and start to see that they live with other people.
There is something wrong with this world that people are dying. But I also see people that help, people that travel long distances to give water to those who need it, or people that make protests to stop violence, or people who discover new medications for sick people.
I don't believe a man can change to whatever he wants, dude we are not Mystic of x-men or Superman. I think it is wrong interpreted when people say they can do whatever, or they can control nature because that is what a man does. I think it is more than speaking of a man, I think tha Sophocles or Savater wanted to tell us that when people are unified they can do whatever they want because maybe an ability that one has, the other does not have and what this man needs the other one has, that is the way man can change and adapt himself, only when we live together, when we share our abilities with others and when we search for the good of everyone and not of ourselves. We can be superhumanity but we can not be a one superman, I think that is the best way the world would work, when people forget that they live for themselves and start to see that they live with other people.
I INSIDE I OUTSIDE
In this book I found many beliefs I do not agree at all. One idea is that we are solipsists, that the only self that exists in the world is yourself. I think it is very selfish to think that you are the only real thing in this world, it is easy to conclude that everything is false except you. Another idea is that we are brains in containers and that we are controlled by marcians that are playing with us. I do not think that I am the only self in the world full of humans and I do not think I am an experiment, what I think is that we are who we are and nothing else, but every time people is finding out these rare ideas because they have nothing to do in their lives.
I is what I am, all those things that complement one with another and that together complete my own I. I think the word I is everything that I have in three aspects: in my physical body, in my mental world and in my spiritual beliefs. It is all together, I believe everything is part o the other, I am not a body without my mental world for example. I think people can fid it difficult to say what they really are but I think all of us know what we are, and sometimes we know more than what we can tell or than what we are permitted to tell.
I is what I am, all those things that complement one with another and that together complete my own I. I think the word I is everything that I have in three aspects: in my physical body, in my mental world and in my spiritual beliefs. It is all together, I believe everything is part o the other, I am not a body without my mental world for example. I think people can fid it difficult to say what they really are but I think all of us know what we are, and sometimes we know more than what we can tell or than what we are permitted to tell.
THE TRUTHS OF REASON
I don't know the way that most of the people evaluate if something is truer than other thing or if something is false because all the people has the right to choose what they want to believe and the reason they have to do that, but I know the way I evaluate. I hear or see the things given to me, then I analyze the whole point of it and I deduct if something is credible or not.
After reading this chapter I came to think that it can be that I am wrong or not wrong but using only a few ways to know if something is true.The chapter made me think that all what I thought was real is not real at all. Now I think everything is conventional because in the book Savater wrote something that is very logic, he wrote hat for example information changes because people discover new things.
I agree with Savater because he wrote that there is not an absolute true and I also think that, but I also think that there are three types of truths: truths that are not absolut but really big and strong enough to battle illusions, truths that help people to move on on their lives and truths about yourself that you are the only person who know them. Maybe it is not right to let yourself us only one of those truths but when you mix them up then you have a really good combination of truths that help your reasoning in addition to the information or experiences you have.
After reading this chapter I came to think that it can be that I am wrong or not wrong but using only a few ways to know if something is true.The chapter made me think that all what I thought was real is not real at all. Now I think everything is conventional because in the book Savater wrote something that is very logic, he wrote hat for example information changes because people discover new things.
I agree with Savater because he wrote that there is not an absolute true and I also think that, but I also think that there are three types of truths: truths that are not absolut but really big and strong enough to battle illusions, truths that help people to move on on their lives and truths about yourself that you are the only person who know them. Maybe it is not right to let yourself us only one of those truths but when you mix them up then you have a really good combination of truths that help your reasoning in addition to the information or experiences you have.
LET US BEGIN WITH DEATH T-H-E-A-D DEATH
Death is not negotiable. Everyone in this world is going to die, our ancestors died and their ancestors died too. We ourselves are not that far away from death since the moment we were born.
In my personal life I don't think about death a lot, I care more about living all what I can and I try not to spend a huge amount of time thinking of the end of things in general. I think people should live like this because it is not worthy to let yourself think too much about death and lose the time you have to live. We do not know anything about death, we only know that when we stop living that is when we are death. I don't know if I agree with the religions that are always giving this story of life after death because is not something you can really trust. And I also think you should not spend your entire life in a kind of dedication for the next life, I think it is ridiculous.
I agree with Epicurus because he is very right. People should not be afraid of death because it is ridiculous that you fear something that you can't experience in your life. Come on people be real, there is no point to be afraid because you do not know if it hurts, if it doesnt, if it is good, if it is bad. Live your life while you still have it becaus one day in the moment you less expect it you will stop living and be death like all the people before you and like all the people will be.
In my personal life I don't think about death a lot, I care more about living all what I can and I try not to spend a huge amount of time thinking of the end of things in general. I think people should live like this because it is not worthy to let yourself think too much about death and lose the time you have to live. We do not know anything about death, we only know that when we stop living that is when we are death. I don't know if I agree with the religions that are always giving this story of life after death because is not something you can really trust. And I also think you should not spend your entire life in a kind of dedication for the next life, I think it is ridiculous.
I agree with Epicurus because he is very right. People should not be afraid of death because it is ridiculous that you fear something that you can't experience in your life. Come on people be real, there is no point to be afraid because you do not know if it hurts, if it doesnt, if it is good, if it is bad. Live your life while you still have it becaus one day in the moment you less expect it you will stop living and be death like all the people before you and like all the people will be.
WHY PHILOSOPHY?
I am in a place where people think that philosophy can't be used in many ways. Friends of mine told me that they believe that philosophy is good for people that have nothing to do in the day or that have no occupations or jobs. First I thought like them because I also believed that nthing could be done with philosophy. But then I read the introduction to philosophy of Fernando Savater and I changed my opinion.
I go by the world living all my days thinking tat everything has been the same and will be the same and I say things that now I ask myself what they mean. Because you do things and say things but don't complain about the meaning or anything because we are satisfied with our knowledge about the thing.
All that knowledge we have came from a source and I reconsidered and now I think philosophy is good because it makes us think, go deeper into the real meanings of everything and no one is going to philosophize but yourself, it is not like a lesson you learn from a teacher but that you discover yourself.
I think many of the things we see now, like a television or ipod or iphone or internet, all of them are the result of people who asked themselves how things worked and found or create a new use or something that could use what they discovered. I now think you can understand more the world if you open your mind to philosophy.
I go by the world living all my days thinking tat everything has been the same and will be the same and I say things that now I ask myself what they mean. Because you do things and say things but don't complain about the meaning or anything because we are satisfied with our knowledge about the thing.
All that knowledge we have came from a source and I reconsidered and now I think philosophy is good because it makes us think, go deeper into the real meanings of everything and no one is going to philosophize but yourself, it is not like a lesson you learn from a teacher but that you discover yourself.
I think many of the things we see now, like a television or ipod or iphone or internet, all of them are the result of people who asked themselves how things worked and found or create a new use or something that could use what they discovered. I now think you can understand more the world if you open your mind to philosophy.
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