Thursday, February 11, 2010
What makes people follow a 10 year old kid talking about god and creation?
Most of the people follow everything that has a relationship with faith or God. But, what makes them follow a 10 year old kid talking about god and creation? I think because they find the kid cute, screaming all over the place, talking about God. At start, they think its a joke, but later on, they pay attention to what the kid says, and start to believe on him (remembering how was the first time.. the first impression is never erased). Most of traditional christians think religion is a big deal, and they take everything personal, even this kid; so when they hear someone talking about this kid, there will be 2 reactions:
1. Oh yeah, that kid is so right. Everybody should be like him (Hipocresy in another words)
2. Hey! stop talking like that about the kid! He is right, and don't mess with his mother! (Complete ignorance of the big picture)
Also, maybe people believe this kid because of the trust and emotion it inspirates on others (he could be talking about how he peed in his bed last night, and people would still take it seriously), his phrasing (which I think he made up while remembering one of his traumas as a strange boy), and because of the fact of being a boy with a suit that doesn't fit him. A clear way to prove that is watching his actual videos, and see that he doesn't have that charm he had as a boy...
Maybe every kid should go on stages, talk about things you dont understand, wear a big tuxedo, give interviews, sing, etc. and make money from it, because why talk about something you don't even understand completely with people clapping and (blindly) loving you if you can't make a profit of it... Which bring us back to the same question: Why? make your own conclusions...
Monday, February 1, 2010
Aristotle
Aristotle (in greek Ἀριστοτέλης, born in 384 BC, died 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and a disciple of Plato. His thought differs from Plato's in a lot of things, like in metaphysics, political theory, and in psychology (the theory of the soul), speacially in the theory of the soul. Aristotle's base of psychology is this theory, and he bases his theory on natural science (I still don't know what he means with natural science), saying that the soul is the thing that owns the psychic functions (memory, breathing, nutrition, growing, emotions, perception, and thought), and the body is the thing in which these functions are embodied and receptors from other people. Also the soul is able to survive after the body is dead, keeping all its characteristics (but where does it go? no explanation there), totally independent of the body (so it can take over a body. Where? In the body factory before its delivery?) and immaterial.
In ethics, Aristotle talks about eudaimonia, moral virtues, virtues of intellect, the "mean", and how all this cant be achieved, only some of this or parts of all of them (maybe because that would be perfection itself... hmmm...)
I can specify all about Aristotle, but its late (22:00), I dont remember much of it because it was something we saw 2 weeks ago (short memory =P) and it must be done so Jose can check it and stablish my grades.
Is the soul a product of body functions?
For Aristotle, its the other way around (body functions are the product of the soul), and for me too. Only some body functions which end up to be fake or to be empty don't come from the soul, because soul is passion, and if there is no passion on what you do, then that body function comes from nowhere.
The soul is something immaterial, independent of the body and capable of surviving its death, according to Aristotle. I initially thought that the soul for Aristotle was the passion of a human being, the motor that keeps dreams alive, but I now see its something else.
For Aristotle, the soul can't work without a body, and also the other way around (well, it can work, but it would be the same as someone in a coma), because the soul has the functions of memory, breathing (well, the breathing is controlled by the brain, not the soul), nutrition, growth and emotions, and the body was only the thing that would interpret these functions and receive them from other people. In another words, Aristotle is saying that the brain is independent from from the body itself, but can't blame him for that. Technology wasn't so advanced, and they thought women are not people.
Monday, January 11, 2010
Socrates

Socrates (pronounced ˈsɒkrətiːz and wrote in Greek Σωκράτης) (born in 469-470 b.C.E., died in 399 b.C.E.) was a Classical Greek Philosopher that influenced in the definition of concepts like Society and Ethics in the time he lived, through dialectics.
some of Socrates characteristics were:
-Ugliness, which make him believe that beauty was not only on the outside, but on the inside, on the mind.
-Never wrote anything, all we know about Socrates is what Plato, his disciple, has wrote.
-The fact of being a philosopher, to actually create the concept of Philosophy, because in his time there were only sophists, by implementing dialectics to express arguments and develop wisdom and not only knowledge
-Naturalistic influence, which made him a particular philosopher with his believes, like the man is not equal to nature, that there is reason and that we think for something because of that.
-"Divine Voice", he thought that that actually existed, and because of that he was accused for creating new gods, and that was the straw that broke the camel (didnt mention it before, but sophists were pissed off with Socrates because after he created Philosophy the sophists classrooms were empty and they wanted to kill him, but couldnt find a good reason, so after the "divine voice" thing, they found it so accused him and thought they were free of Philosophy, but Socrates left an important message to Greece, so it was actually the beggining of a new era of Philosophy, people created and spread new ideologies)
Socrates wanted to teach people that we should learn from ourselves, and not from nature, and from that thought Ethics appeared, which means that if we think something is good, then its good.
But, if a thieve thinks that stealing is good, for reasons like its easier than working, you can do it whenever you want, you get what you want, etc., then, because of the concept of ethics, its good right? for the thieve its ok, but for everybody else its not..
thats why we dont discuss ethics in class.. total confussion..

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Sunday, November 29, 2009
What Is Philosophy?

Philosophy, to start off from itself, means the love of knowledge, coming from 2 greek words called "Philos (φιλο)" and "Sophia (σοφία)". According to Wikipedia, Sophia means Wisdom, but according to our teacher, it means knowledge; and also according to our teacher, wisdom is not the same thing as knowledge (well, as we can see, they're written differently, but that is not the only difference) (=O!!). This got me into a messed up space in my mind everytime I would listen or think about wisdom and/or knowledge.
Anyway, in class we discussed about the objectives of philosophy. Philosophy was not made to solve problems, but to make new ones and study them from every angle. This also got me into a small mess, but it was easily cleaned as the classed goed by. For me, philosophy is the path to find tools to solve a problem. On our way to this tool, we will encounter more and more problems, but we must stay focused and know only what we need to know to keep on and find that tool. In class we discussed that solving problems is what the other sciences have to deal with, not philosophy, which deals with what I just said.
To talk more about the class and less about my thoughts, our teacher told us that philosophy has some characteristics:
-its not something that has existed
-doesn't care about the truth
-it states problems
-every human being is related to philosophy because its about thinking and problems and everybody thinks and has problems (special remarkment to drug users)
from here, we can say that philosophy gives meanings to problems, so we decide how and which ones solve, only think about, or forget them.
One thing I have to remark, its that, like my classmate Ernesto Camacho said, "philosophy establishes problems and then we can grow as specie because our natural curiosity and our constant desire of knowledge" (no grammar correcting process there), we will keep growing intelectually with our natural curiosity and our constant desire of knowledge, but our desire of knowledge depends deeply on our interests. You will only feel desire of knowledge of something you want or like, it can be from the making of chocolates to how do I connect Romantic thought with my dreams.. Our desire will only stop when we have reached our goal of knowing something, and that's when we have to find new dreams, explore the world to find things that will wake up our desire of knowledge again... In my case, IDK why, I am feeling empty... After I have known what i wanted to know (not ALL of it, but like 50%), I feel that knowing and developing wisdom, at the end of the road, there is nothing. My curiosity faded away with my desires... I hope its just a period of my life, and not an endless night...
P.D: Everybody: PLEASE COMMENT!! specially if you feel just like me, if you would like to discuss about Philosophy, and if you are a fellow classmates.

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Friday, November 27, 2009
First Post (IMPORTANT INFO ABOUT THE BLOG!!)
Well, for all you people who have found this blog:
This blog was made according to the needs of me, working on philosophy class, in which the teacher told us to make a blog so we can make posts about subjects he will define in class and to make relfexions about it...
You may find more blogs that have this same purpose because I'm not the only one in the class (24 in total), and it will be excelent if you comment everything you feel about this blogs and/or its corresponding posts, about the idea of making blogs so students can post their feelings and/or reflexions about philosophy topics, and maybe (I guess some of my classmates would like to express themselves outside the requirements of our philosophy class), find other premature minds and its thoughts.
For everyone reading this blog (including my classmates and teacher), I hope you enjoy and/or reflex about my way of expressing topics that I may not like or may not like, and perhaps (if I dare/want to) some reflexions about life itself.
Enjoy reading words on the computer until your eyes can't stand more! (well my blog will be easier for you to read because the text is in black, not like other blogs which the background is black and the text white, which kills your eyes slowly with no mercy)
This blog was made according to the needs of me, working on philosophy class, in which the teacher told us to make a blog so we can make posts about subjects he will define in class and to make relfexions about it...
You may find more blogs that have this same purpose because I'm not the only one in the class (24 in total), and it will be excelent if you comment everything you feel about this blogs and/or its corresponding posts, about the idea of making blogs so students can post their feelings and/or reflexions about philosophy topics, and maybe (I guess some of my classmates would like to express themselves outside the requirements of our philosophy class), find other premature minds and its thoughts.
For everyone reading this blog (including my classmates and teacher), I hope you enjoy and/or reflex about my way of expressing topics that I may not like or may not like, and perhaps (if I dare/want to) some reflexions about life itself.
Enjoy reading words on the computer until your eyes can't stand more! (well my blog will be easier for you to read because the text is in black, not like other blogs which the background is black and the text white, which kills your eyes slowly with no mercy)
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