Monday, March 15, 2010

How was God addressed in the middle ages?

God was addressed by some ways: heritage, and by society.
I dont really understand the question but I'll talk about some other stuff
back in that time, there were some problems when it came to God, and there were 2 types: the philosophical ones and the theological ones.
God was (or is..?) an omnieverything; by that I mean omnipresent and omnipotent, and everybody that didn't agree with that should shut up or should be burned in the bonfire, and also because of the individualization (you are what you are because God said so, and if you don't agree with that, you will be what God lets you to be)
a very big problem problem back in that time, was that, What language does God speak? its still a mistery...

Sunday, March 14, 2010

Idols of the Mind

the Idols of the Mind are (for me) the margins of error that appear when we think, and also are not really easy to change, and are named by Francis Bacon. There are 4:
-Tribe Idols: they are idols that appear when we are in a new or different situation than usual and that request a fast response, and what happens is that we do what others do.
-Cave Idols: they appear when someone does a terrible, horrible, grotesque thing, and asks for a response as same as terrible, horrible and grotesque.
-Marketplace Idols: its a language problem, which can arise from differences in the culture, in the characteristics of the message (speed, tone, complexity), etc.
-Theatre Idols: wrong apprenticeship or misunderstanding and the diffusal of it.

the only thing I can say about it is that I hate them with my whole being and I think they come from people that like to act like idiots or are ignorants..

an example of a cave idol is what happened today at school: our homeroom teacher told us that we must bring the memo's signed by our parents, but many parents get the memo's through e-mails and of their children mouths, but still he insisted that we must bring them signed because his boss says so.

Rene Descartes


René Descartes (pronounced "ʁəne de'kaʁt" in french) was a french philosopher, mathematician and physicist born in 1596 and dead in 1650. he was considered the father of modern philosophy because other philosophers will base their works in Descartes'. Descartes thought a lot about materia and substances, but he was afraid of what his thought would cause (back in that time, philosophers where chased to death, or to the bonfire).
Ignoring that he could die because of his thoughts, he made up a method bonding Epistemology, Phenomenology and Existentialism, which is called the Cartesian Method. With the use of this method, Descartes affirmed that everything can be explained.
Also, he got to the conclusion of I think therefore I am with that method, and this is how he got there:
I don't know what I am, and I don't know the answer of it, but I can make questions about it, and that assures me that I exist
He also got to other conclusions, like that the Soul is the combination of the machine part and the substance part of the human being.
As the class went by, I started to get my own conclusion if I am real or not, and my mind seemed to explode. I didn't have any reason to think about that, and if I don't know the answer it wont change anything (i guess), but I did broke my brain joint thinking about that, and after some relaxation and new ideas I got to the conclusion that Descartes' conclusion is the most reasonable one about my existence (until we study others existentialist, i guess)
well I skipped some part of that class here in the post because its really complicated to blog about it but i got it so i think there is no problem :D

Descartes' Grave :D