When Savater explains what a world is, he says that: “it is an environment that makes sense, a framework within which all things relate to each other and possesses a relevance that can be explained”. Then he talks about all the different levels components contained in this idea. Here he starts with, what he refers to, ‘my small world’.
I think the name for this it’s quite graphic, ‘my small world’ has significantly less components that the other levels, the Russian dolls are a really good example of this; but when talking about meaning I think it is the most important one for us, because obviously all the other levels have an effect on us, but those effects produced in the different levels affect ‘my small world’, and if they don’t, it really doesn’t ends up affecting me.
I think philosophy is a consequence of all this levels, all this worlds acting together, of all this worlds coexisting and affecting themselves. But I also think that philosophy should especially focus on what is going on in ‘my small world’, because as we studied early philosophy is about taking knowledge and defining what that knowledge means to me, so if ‘my small world’ is formed by my family, my friends, my home, if it is formed by my everyday life, by the things that mean the most to me, the things I care more about; it seems logical to me for philosophy to focus on ‘my small world’.
I think the name for this it’s quite graphic, ‘my small world’ has significantly less components that the other levels, the Russian dolls are a really good example of this; but when talking about meaning I think it is the most important one for us, because obviously all the other levels have an effect on us, but those effects produced in the different levels affect ‘my small world’, and if they don’t, it really doesn’t ends up affecting me.
I think philosophy is a consequence of all this levels, all this worlds acting together, of all this worlds coexisting and affecting themselves. But I also think that philosophy should especially focus on what is going on in ‘my small world’, because as we studied early philosophy is about taking knowledge and defining what that knowledge means to me, so if ‘my small world’ is formed by my family, my friends, my home, if it is formed by my everyday life, by the things that mean the most to me, the things I care more about; it seems logical to me for philosophy to focus on ‘my small world’.
What is amazing is how we care more and how we relate more to our small little world. As small as it can be, is the most important one for me, why? I think because are the ones we spend more time with, and it relates more to our feelings. In the other hand we still know that we belong to many other different classifications. We belong to our community, to our country, to our continent, to our world, but everyone will place his/her small little world first than others.
ReplyDeleteMaybe our own world is also the one we can control or perceive the most of all. Inversely to the perception of world levels getting bigger in size, our control and consciousness about them get smaller... Other worlds can affect us and we don't even realize about it, I think we often see what we want to see, and besides, I think that we may be the protagonist of our own world, but not because we were meant to, but because we decided to. (its easier?)
ReplyDeleteBy reading this blog, I can see that everything that we care about it is our small world, i can even se that it can be brake down in smaller pieces, including my feelings. Which it it is bad because we don't care about the universe so we do things without thinking about and there are affecting our universe but we don't have a clue of it. So we can start by caring more about are universe because it is still part of us.
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