Chapter three, “I inside, I outside” seem to me kind of confusing because it really put me to think about myself, what happens inside of me, what I think and the things that happen around me, how I perceive them.
How can I know that what I know really exist or is true, everything can just be illusions that I have, Truth is a big word because I think that we could never be totally sure of something been true because everything can be just illusions. That’s the thing that I cannot be sure of anything being true but what I only know is that I exist because I think, because to be able to think and to do things I have to exist, that the only thing that I can be sure of, “ I am, I think”.
I know that I’m myself because I am unique, all the people in the world is different and no one can be the same, I know that I will be always myself even thought physically changes or ways of thinking the only thing that can end myself is death, that’s something that keeps me comfortable because I’m sure that I’m someone that thinks, that lives and perceive the things that happen around me, like the is raining, feeling cold, feeling sad.
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This post made me think about many stuff. First of all, if I am, therefore... I was created by whom? well if somebody asked me I would say by my mother and father, and if so, I was created, I lived and I die? (optional: I created more I's? because isn't sons part of our own I? aren't we an extension of our parents as they created us?) well I think we are part of somebody/something that shares his/her/its functions with ours, or perhaps we help that being accomplish a goal, so I am, I think, I belong?
ReplyDeleteJose I agree with the part that who created us, but I do not really think we are extensions of our parents, yes they created us but we are not extensions of our parents, we are their sons, but it is not like they gave us a part of themselves.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you Illeana, this is a very difficult chapter to understand, and he goes too far with the questions he makes. In my point of view, Fernando Savater wants to understand life better. I think that the answers to the questions he made are useless because it wouldn’t make any difference, but same as you, I didn’t understand this chapter very good.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you ille, I often remember waking up in the mornings and vaguely think that this world could be something else, and that we focus only on our perception and block others, as if it was easier to live with my perception alone. Very good post Ille, Perceptions can cheat us.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you Jorge, Savater took this line of tought too far. I mean, I'ts o.k. to make these kinds of questions to question truth itself, to make us see that we can never be sure of anything. However, I think that devoting a whole chapter to that is too much because to me, philosophy is about understanding life better and therefore living life better, however, if you start questioning life itself what are you using philosophy for right?
ReplyDeleteI also agree with rene's and jorge's point of view,I think this chapter just get us more confussed from what we really are and we don't even get to a real answer that we can be satisfied. I also think they can be questioning on life because they want to question everything they can even if they don't get to an answer.
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