sábado, 27 de febrero de 2010

idols of the mind...


well the idols of the mind according to Francis Bacon are sistematic errors of our minds, they are bad habits of our minds that interfir with our logic. there are four idols:
idols of the tribe
idols of the cave
idols of the marketplace
and idols of the theatre
an example of an idol of the marketplace can be something that happend to me, once I was looking the hair of a blond friend I have and i said: oh this hair is like a gray hair but black... when i say it for me it had sence because she is blond and there was a black hair on her head but later i realize that the thing I said was estupid because if it is black it can't be a gray hair.

how was gods adressed in the middle ages?


well in the middle ages the idea of god had to be concibible in our mind, god existences was the only fact that had to be truth, it didn't matter the fact that they didn't had any proof of his existence because they follow the dogma and they had faith on it. in the middle ages god was so important that people tried to learn from him by talking with him througth prays becuase for them god was omnipresent.

in that time people believe this because the church had a lot of influence on them, if the church said that god is this or that the people believe in this so most of the times church uses god as a way of manipulating people in some way.
god was so important in this period of time because people wanted to get some answers and the only way they could do it was by talking to god by a languaje to adress god.

i think that people in the middle ages had so much faith because of the influence of the church and the idea of, that has to be something else, so it had to be god. i think that another fact that influence them was the society of that time.

martes, 9 de febrero de 2010

what makes people follow a 10 years old kid thinking about god and creation

well the video of the predicator kid is one of those videos that show us how far can people go with their belives, I think that in this video we can see the fanatism of a group of people that follows a religion and makes their kids do the same thing. For me the people that apploud to the kid that is saying all this thing about god and creation are people that is very close, that can't accept new thoughts, is people that just live for making shure that thier religion is the only one that can exist.
the only thing I can say about this video is that sometimes people wants to show what is the truth by making some stupid things like this speech, for me the kid that was talking didn't know what he was saying he just just get influenced by his parents and he made what they told him to do.
We can can say that there are different pointS of view about this controversial topic that talks about god and creation but for me this video goes to far, it is anrealistic, it's something that for me just do not make sence. The question is: what makes people follow a 10 years old kid thinking about god and creation? well i can't answer it, for me is just irrational that people can follow things like that, I hope that there are not a lot of people that think as the same way because if there are, I don't know were are we going. In conclution I think that this video was just make to have fun and watch how far people can go with their believes.

url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uKQT-BKzwI

lunes, 1 de febrero de 2010

aristotle


Well to talk about aristotle we have to say that he was one of the greatest philosophers of all times such as plato and socrates, these three gay were the ones that began to see the world in a different way. aristotle was the rationalist, he always talk about the human being as a "something" that have a soul that said the body what to do or it feelings and the body that is the one that express what the soul wants to say, for him the soul could life when the body dies but it couldn't do anything. For me aristotle was right when he said that the body and the soul complement each other because to me the body is just something "material" whithout the soul and the soul is nothing whithout the body. another thing that aristotle argues about is the fact ofthe polis and the citizen, for him the polis that is the group of citizens always makes the best conditions were the citizen can live. For him it was like the humans were the animals that depend on the polis, he worries about how things work and how they relate with each other theres were we enter in the observation of aristotle about ethics and eudamonia. eudamonia are the good things things of the human being the virtues that he or she have. So for aristotle we need a common good were our ethics our moral and the polis comes together so we can live the best we can. In conclusion i must say that for me our soul is the most important thing of a human being, that our ethics are the things that makes as have a good life in the society we live in and that the things that were said in ancient greece with these three philosophers are still talk about in these times.