The world and its outskirts

In this chapter Savater addresses the world and its surroundings, until what extent does the world goes on? To explain this he talks about what we call universe and describes it as both heavy and light, he also states with the help of Fernando Pessoa that the universe is in fact infinite. I would like to address this matter on my post.

For me, the world without a doubt is infinite, and I believe Pessoa is right when he starts talking about how there is no universe as a whole but rather just objects. This may be a little bit hard to understand but what he is trying to tell us is that there is no "end" to the universe, it just goes on and on, you can't just stretch your arm and find nothing in the outside, as Savater says; the universe continues forevermore. As Pessoa states, we are just objects in this world and everything and everyone is an object serving one purpose, and those objects are held in another object and so on, "there are turtles all the way down..." Of course I don't believe that the universe is held by a turtle and that turtle is standing on another and so on, and I also don't believe Savater believes it, its just and aid he uses to illustrate the point of a universe going forevermore.

We can't say that the universe is finite because we everything that has a beginning has and end, and by ending something another thing MUST start, the universe is like that and Savater introduces this idea since the very beginning when he explains how "our world" is part of a national environment and how the national is part of the international etc.. If we look deeply into this concept it is easy to understand how the universe is infinite and how it has no end, in my opinion we shouldn't disagree with this idea because it is what makes us so special, we may be objects inside and infinite universe but we have a roll that wouldn't be fulfilled to its maximum if we didn't have that desire to be a "bigger" object.

That the universe is infinite isn't a bad thing since it make us even greater we could say, it may sound ridiculous how and infinite thing would make a human greater but if we thing about it, this "fact" help us challenge ourselves and achieve for the best.

The world and its outskirts

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’.

The Symbolic Animal

Hy again everybody
This week I’m going to talk about a very different animal from the rest, I’m not saying that this animal if very different in quality’s, it is different from the inside, by the way it acts. This animal is the Human, this particular animal it is distinguish among all other by different quality’s it has, its an animal that has a very different ways of behaving. Next we have some differences between animals and humans.
One of the main differences between animals and humans is the way of thinking. Even duo we are animals that evolution from animals, we have many differences from them. The way you or me think is very different from the animals, animals just think for that moment (by instinct) and humans think for the future. This is why humans can develop and animals don’t, because animals don’t care what will happen the next day while human does and take measures.
The second thing I want to talk about is the form of communication. Humans as well as animals are able of communicate; the difference is that the human language is more complete from the one of animals. The main difference between this two is that humans give a symbol to everything, that’s the reason Savaatar says that we are symbolic animals, because we give a symbol to everything.
Well then I think this is all for today, but keep in mind that even duo we consider ourselves superior we are still animals, are we?

The symbolic Animal

This chapter made me knew a little bit more about myself, my ancestors and made me thankful for being a human.Since I was very young I’ve got the opportunity to have a pet and explore their worlds so I notice many differences between me and my dog a long time ago and I knew that I shouldn’t mix up my living with his. We humans are complex we have different feelings, humor, etc. And we are aware of this! I really don’t want to get to argue if animals have feelings or not, but I guess they don’t realize what they’re living they just go on “automatic” I mean is like… “I need to eat, Ok I’ll go and get some food” and so on!! We humans even dream our lives like… “I wish I could have this celphone that dances, sings and even does human faces!” Is not like a celphone is a real need! Though I’ll say “I can’t live without my celphone” I know this is false.

Animals don’t go through life pretending or wishing, animals are living for the day, doing what they need, responding to their instincts… we humans live for tomorrow!

Have you ever realize that every single action we do is for the future?? Never for the moment, we are always judging ourselves, pretending we’re cool with our lives and at the very end of our life we think “I wish I did... this, I wish I’d said… that” and so on.If a female dog is “on heat” a male dog is going to come around her and just… you know what happens next, in the human world if a guy likes a girl, he needs to “process” the girl through several steps until he gets to the same conclusion that he had since the beginning (“I like her”) and more and more steps! This is just the human way to say “this is the guy/girl I think I should reproduce with and maybe share my emotional life”This sounds awful because it is translated to the “animal language” but yeah, somehow we humans are pathetic for doing way too much for a very simple thing… but still I think we are smart… or maybe that’s what we want to think?? :O

I inside, I outside

Hi people me again.
Today I’m going to talk about some interesting things that happen within our body that we are not so sure. One interesting question, are we in some kind of dream? Or are we in the middle of a computer program designed to teach children what is good or bad? Is pretty crazy right? But even duo that is crazy it as well be probable. Think about it. Were do we live? (I mean in the galaxy outside us) we have never seen the end of this thing, right? So who knows, everything might be possible.
One good thing that makes me feel good is that they say we have a soul. This is cool because makes me feel that I’m not just a person, I’m also a spirit with different thoughts and feelings as other people. This soul lives within all of us in our body’s, like savaatar says, “it’s in all the body and in the same time nowhere” this means, that we don’t know were it is but we know is there (maybe as a type of energy) and this very soul makes us be different from animals and other humans.
One last thing is what about our body? You know is part of us, but does it play a role in our way of thinking, feeling, talking even the way you see another person? I think it does. Let me give you an example: a beautiful lady is walking and she knows she is beautiful because everyone tells her. Her attitude will be very different from a girl that is fat and short. I’m not saying that is a bad thing only that the way of thinking certainly will be different all because of how they look, this causes security between us. And the security we have inside us makes us do things.
To finish, what are we? A thought, a soul or a body? I like to thing that we are a soul, and god gave us a body so we can live, and the thoughts help us live in this world that as well not exist, but even if this world does not exist, our soul and thoughts exist. What do you think?