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I don´t really think that nothingness is possible, well maybe in a condition that ill never know. For me there is a simple reason that makes nothingness impossible, our knowledge. Our knowledge makes us uncapable to conceibe "nothing" because we already know "something"....It´s a little bit confusing... But when we give that meaning or that title to something, it becomes something like the word says. You already have the knowledge that it exists or it´s something. For example if you say that a jar have nothing inside it, you know that that nothing could be air, so it becomes a something. Maybe if we had no knowledge at all we could conceibe "nothingness"

lalalala music!!

I love music!!, when I was trying to decide what is the kind of art that I like the most, I imagined myself without music and it`s impossible, for me is essential. It doesn't matter if you can't play music (but is amazing when you do it) it's about apreciating it. I dom't know it's like when I hear music I can connect myself into another world that it full of feelings depending of the moment and the kind of music. So I guess that what I like about music is tht sometimes I can have the control of many of my moods depending on the music that I want to hear. It`s like you can identify so much things when you are hearing music and some of them just last for that moment, so at the end you can emerge into many moods. Music it`s also very easy to find, well it depends on the kind of music that you like, and also you can do many things while you are hearing music.... I love music!! don`t know what else I have to say to explain why I like it....

art in these times .... very dionisios

Maybe yes, art have to have a balance between Apollo ( god of rationality, reasoning, truth, etc) and Dionisio ( god of wine,party, extasis, madness, etc), that´s what make it complete, have a balance and be interesting. But now a times I think that the balance is gone, for example music, many many that makes music now thinks that if they do it they will be very cool and it would mean party and popularity, not a lot of people think that there should be something else in that now, like a backround that supports everything that they´re doing, now everybody when they think about doing music thay think in party, popularyity, boys and girls and money, so they´re actually just thinking about Dionisio, and thats what a lot of people see now.

ding and sich of a meaning...

The ding and sich of a meaning for me it´s the difference that makes the signifier give other information, that differnece that makes the essece of that meaning, so that meaning is able to be used to one signified and not many. The "muchness" of a meaning (ding and sich), is the little detail that make it different, that special mental association to the symbol that we have for every symbol, that special memory that let you difference one thing of another. There are many meanings that have some things in common, but every one have that difference that let ou think and know why that thing it´s that thing. And that difference gives you the signified. For example the meaning of a tree... If we divide that meaning it may not say completely what does a tree specifically means, but then that difference from other things makes you know that is a tree and you inmediately associate it with that special signified.

thats what happens if....

All this time, since we got this assignment, I realized how many neurosis I have, just thinking about it drives me crazy. But there is one special neurosis that I can´t stand. I hate hate hate hate hate when I am watching a movie and people around me start reading the subtitles of the movie very low.... AHHHHHH!!! and they just can´t read it to themselfs, they need to make that whispering voice. I prefer not to watch a movie because anyways I can´t concentrate. I just want to strangle the person !!!

I think this neurosis comes from my childhood, when I was little, my parents had a friend that had a daughter, and I hated her, she was so annoying, but she always sat near me when I was watching TV, and for any reason there were subtitles, but she was learning to read, so she always talked in a very very low voice trying to read the subtitles, but she couldn´t and ah!, I could never listen because I was so concentraded un her because she couldnt read well!! She was so stressing, and I always told my parents that I don´t wanted to be with her, but they dont listened, thats why I think that they are rensponsable for my neurosis.

for me?..... Capitalism

Well, I think we are in a good social place, I mean we are not dying because we don´t have enough food, or anything like it, so this capitalist society is working for us. So I prefer capitalism.

We live in a very competitive world, we are always searching a way to stand out and be better than everyone else, capitalism works because it makes people searh always that thing that makes them stand out. A socialist society is based on a perfect idea, but imagine us in a socialist society, it wouldn´t even be perfect, it would exist so much corruption, the government will have so much power and we would´t have what we really deserve, it could even become a lazy society because at the end youre getting the same as everyone else, well of course you have to work and give your best, but what would give you that iterest to be better than everyone else?, what will push you to always search for more and more if at the end youre getting the same as everyone else?

I like this capitalist society because sometimes is fair and sometimes not, it´s not predictible and it makes you always have that sparkle, that iniciative to fight and fight for a position, a good social stand in this world, trying to improve yourself everytime and at the end if you know haw to do things you will get what you deserve depending on what you did and the work you gave it, if you don´t fight for something and improve yourself everytime, being lazy you would be in the position that you deseve depending on what you did to be in that place ( not always, a lot of times it´s different but thats why you will have to keep fighting to get something, capitalism it´s not perfect). I think capitalism makes people be alive by always trying to be better and better, improving themselves and if not afront the consecuences.

And also you will never reach that perfect society that you think that socialism is, it would just get worse.

PSYCHE!!....matter

Our essence, of course is psyche. Well, it obviously works toguether, but for me the matter, in this case our body, express all that the psyche wants to say. The matter is the way to comunicate with other psyches, the bridge to join or make other psyches understand what we are trying to express. So we need both, other way how could we communicate, but what we really are, our essence is psyche. For example if you think of moving your arm and you move it, it´s not that your arm it´s moving by itself, i´ts because you psyche is giving the signal, so your able to interact.

When we die, I think that just our body it´s the one who´s staying behind, and our psyche continues moving on into an other body, so you can express yourself. So if your changing your body but your psyche, your essence it stills there, you would be obviously psyche. But our body also connects us with our environmen, so our psyche can also get information and be well situated in the context.

My properties!

When we are surrounded by people we don´t just respect their things because they have the legal right over them, it´s also because we have values and respect some limits. But a lot of times those limits can be broken, there is when we use legal rights to prove that we own something, or we give proves to show the belonging. The power is a very important fact in properties, the fisical power, for example if someone take something from you by the force, or if someone have the power over you, like your parents (if you are under 18) properties could change.

It´s relative, for example if I lease a house I would say that is mine, because i´m using it, and if someone ask´s is that your house? you would say yes, but legally it´s not yours, but if you want to construct something in that house you would have to ask for permission, you can´t decide what to do with that house even if you are the one that´s using it. So, how could we know who is the owner of something? I think that the one who is using something can be the temporary owner of that thing because he is the one who´s responding to the acts of that something, but the one who have the final decitions is the one who have the legal rights or the one who bought it or the one who found it first. But also the one who´s able to use it or control it.

Rationalism Vs. Empiricism

I am not against any one, there are facts and facts that make me think that one of them its better than the other, but at the end I think I would choose empiricism. First of all I think that experience makes us capable to judge, so every "truth" that we know should be tested and according to that, we could judge or modify it. For me there are so much variations in everything that you could never stablish an absolute truth. Also in our daily acts we all are more empiricist because we always interact with what we see, feel, hear, smell and we actually believe in what we are feeling, and we don´t apply our scientific knowledge for our daily actions, and yes there could be some confusions but empiricism doesn´t opose to the use of reason, but our acts are based on what we feel every moment. Just having experiences you could have a judgement criteria because only then with the repeated actions you will really know it, and a human can´t have the complete meaning of what the truth is. As we know we are not perfect, and the empiric thoughts gives you the tools to know and control what you´re living in that moment . An example of how it works it could be explaining the theory that we are borned like a blank paper that is filled with experiences end with those experiences we learn, and that way we could know if something is that way or not, and if we don´t know we will have more experiences that could let us now later, or make an association of ideas, ceation of concepts. I think we all know how observation could make us learn so much, and if its real or not our acts are based in that because is our reality.

senses = wrong

DESCARTES

As we many people spend their time trying to explain our past and history and many many other things, Descartes spend his time asking himself about our existance, if we are or not real. After having a doubt, and another doubt of our existance, he ended with a conclusion "I think, therefore I am"... this explains a lot,(just by making myself this question I can know that I exist, and it makes me different from other thing). He said that you can not believe in our senses, and for explain this, he gave the example of the dream, so how can you really know that you are not in a dream, because if you use your senses as a guide such as see or feel you could be in a dream, so your senses won´t be a guide that led you to the truth. So he said that you can only explain things mathematically, because everything in the world is macanically perfect, and through math everything is undersatandable.

He inventes a way to explain everything, and this is the analititc geometry, this way you can conceibe something in universe. He always used the logical explanations and he don´t trusted anything, just thinking that the analysis will led him to knowledge... this makes him a rationalist.

Idols of the marketplace...

I think that now a time we use a lot this intellectual fallacie, because ussually when we try to express ourselves for example we exagerate so much trying to say something, and it´s understanded by everyone but we don´t really make sense with the words that we are using in the real sense of the words... this could be like "hace como u millón de años que no le veo" and this it´s a complete distortion of the words just to say that i have not seen someone for many many time...

HOW IS GOD ADRESSED IN THE MIDDLE AGES?

I don´t really know the answer but im going to suppose.

First of all these stills a problems for so much people because if there is no a logical explanation of god, we can´t know where it is, or how to communicate with god thats why I think there are so much people that don´t belive in god.

But for believers in Middle Ages I think there are not so much options because the church is an institution that in those times completely ruled, almost all the people were believers of the Catholic church. The church is in charge to give some doctrins for make people believe and don´t do things that wont benefit them. They explained that god is everywhere (not phisically, but spiritually), but if you are in god´s side (the side that the church lead you to) you will reach all the good things and go to heaven, the kingdom of god, eden, etc. As there is of explanation of god and it could be very difficult to communicate with god because you can´t see him, so the way of communication, the languge with god will be always spiritually, in the case of the Middle Ages the church will stablished a way to communicate that is the prayer, this exists in the context of relationship with god, where the believer and god will have a spiritual contact. But also as a matter of control of the church you will be always in more contact with god in the church.

So they really couldn´t explain god, thats why it was a medieval problem. And I think they contacted god the way the church told them to contact him.

El niño predicador

Well, if we come from monkeys or not, i think that he seem like a disturbed monkey. I just can´t understand how people can believe or follow so much a kid like this. The reason why i think people believe him is because he is innovating, he is a kid that explains or say what that people want to hear, but in a way that is so enthusiastic and with a voice tone that you just can´t realize that comes from a kid with that age, it´s interesting to see a boy doing such a theather that they just can´t help paying attention, i guess going to the church it´s so boring that they just need this show, and also it´s so unusual to see a kid like this talking the way this kid talk, so people that eant to believe in things that he is saying say, why don´t believe in this kid, is unusual he must know the truth.
By other way he is trying to convince people that the don´t need to question about god, you should just believe in what church is saying to you to believe because it´s the truth, and he explains how stupid is the people who question this, i don´t know how con we let a kid like that dominate so much people and don´t let them question about anything because then thay will be the example that the kid is trying to insult. And this kind of acting make that big institutions own us, i think we have to begin to question ourselves in everything and also experiment with science things that we can´t know, because at least that way we could have a few valid arguments about what is and what is not. Or just don´t believe everything that people say to us, try to find your own answers too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uKQT-BKzwI&feature=related

One explanation... eudaimonia...

Aristotle...

If we can't answer some quesions in life is very traditional that we try to respond those questions in myths trying to use fantasy in order to to fill that space of things that we don't know. By the other side Aristotle was a man who was worried of finding rational answers to everything that surrrounds us, so he talked about everything like sciences, methaphysics, physics, psicology, biology, math, arts, dialectics, geography, economy, justice, etc....

But there were three themes that he was more interested, these themes were;

Ethics, his ethic was that we all are in the search of eudaimonia that is the supreme good, and all the acts that the humans do are always in the search of finding a determinated good. So at the end goodnes is inside us.

The other point that he talked a lot about was Epistemology, konwledge, and Aristotle thought that only if you can think you are able to create something because this way you can question everything and determinate if something is justified or just invalid.

And also Aristotle was person who talked a lot about the reation of the citizen and the polis and he called this relation Politics, and politics for him should be developed in the best way in a polis, creating everything that is good in a polis because in a polis is where a citizen can adquire knowledge.

Aristotle was also a man who divided evrything in the world, he tried to organize everything that conforms the world the best way possible, and he thought that the best was to know if something is right its trough experimentation, and this way he let his legacy in the division of a lot of things that we learn now.

Is the soul a product of body functions?

I can think about a lot of things in order to say yes to that question, because technically yes, the soul is there the first time we evidence body functions, but mi answer to that question is no...So i think that the soul can't be a product of body functions because for me the soul is something that it already exists and body functions just make that the body and the soul work toguether, a body can't work without the soul because the minute it starts working toguether the soul starts recording everything, your eperiences that are a big part that helps to form your soul. In my opinion the soul already have it's essence and you are (as a part) who you are because of your soul's essence. There is an example that helps me to understand my point of view; the time when our body functions start, the soul is there and creates just one piece that need to work togueter and can't be without the othe part, because it would be just a fisic inactive body, or a soul that can't be part of our society because it just can't comunicate or receive all the information that we get of our surroundings. The body is the one who helps to connect the soul and the actual living experiences, and trough this our soul creates its base that make work our body and do the things that we do with a reason. So when we die, the body stays just as a fisic innactive body because the soul is just no there in the fisic body any more, but it goes somewhere else, maybe in other body.

I think that answers the question, but there is something that i dont understand: If we think our soul keeps finding another body and it never dies, what happens with all the persons that keep coming if there are more people that are born every day that people that die.So that question would be answered if everything worked as the question ...if the soul would be a product of body functions.

go up there and you will find wisdom...Plato

Reflections!

We dont know the truth, and probably we will never know what are we doing here so every theory that we make about our existance and why we are the way we are is valid, no one can judge us about that, so i think that its become more valid when there is more people that thinks that your theory is right. Plato did an interesting theory that explain our world (where we are) as a place that is constructed by the reflections of the hiperuranus that is named Gaia, so nothing where we live in is real there are just reflections, even our mind that is formed just by memories of hiperuranus, after Gaia comes Uranus thtat is like heaven and after that comes the reflection of all that we are living, Hiperuranus, and that is very complex because you ask yourself what happens in Hiperuranus if all our ideas come from there, and if we are like we are and we are just reflections what kind of perception of world should everyone have there or how does everything is formed there. But i guess that is something that just Plato could answer at the end is theory. But this for me, an idea very difficult to believe bescause by my way of seeing everything i am the one who is constructing everything and im the one who is taking the chance and giving my effort to do what i am doing, and how i understand Plato's theory i would be doing nothing here because is just a reflection and think that nothing here is real, is just a reflection is very unreal for me, because i am here in Gaia where nothing is really happening i would be doing nothing because other way i would be in hyperuranus.

socrates ...the firs of 3

In our school if you dont give your opinion or comment a class you should get an x in "desempeños", because now you are suposed to do that. We could thank that to Socrates,

a man who once went to a class of sophists and started to question everithing and intoducing a dialog (he created dialectics) , and this way he tried to teach all the students changing the structure of sophists classes, he was teaching without charging, and that was the opposite of what sophists did because they created schools and you should pay to receive wisdom, so Socrates was against them believing that wisdom should not be charged. And then the word philosopher was invented. Socratea also believed that the key of understand, learn is in societies because that way the groups of people could share things and create a dialog.

Some of the believes that back in the time where not admitted, are now the ones that we use the more, like the thought of socrates that we all have an inner beauty (mind) is very used now to explain the differences that we have at humans.

But at the end we can confirm the idea that we always apreciate somenthing we cant hae any more, after Socrates was forced to commit suicide a lot of different schools appeard that had socrates way of thinking.

phil o sophy?

Love knowledge....

This is not about solving problems, creating answers and be quiet if someone tells you that you have reached the final point and gives you a final answer. This is about understanding fundamental problems, so after that you can question and question again, well this is what philosophers do. Ginving always their point of view based on racional arguments.

So at this point we can say that philosophy is all obout reasoning, thinking and this way it involves or relate everyone to philosophy, because philisophy is thinking and everybody thinks.

So philosophy just gives you the tools so the problem can be solved by...

nature...alism

Is funny how we work sometimes, first we can investigate a lot o things that we dont even need and create things that are not relevant in our daily life, and after all that wasted time we start asking ourselves ¿what is nature made of?, something so important that involve almost everything that surrouds us. But at the end this question created a very important theory that we still using in these times and that is the atomic theory, so this theory explains how we can divide or split matter again and again and again untill we reach the final expression that are called athoms. and its funny how this tiny little pieces con explain us what the esscence of nature is. This theory is valid until now and we still using it to respond basic question on our life.