Augusto... Playing on the World's Stage

Saturday, September 08, 2007

How to Take Easy the perception of Philo Sophy

It was not 30 minutes in his first class delivered to us, his new students 13 years ago, that our teacher presented us with the first definition of his subject of teaching: philosophy is that thing thank to which, with or without it, your life is still such and the same!
I'm sure he then added the term philosophy comes from the compound of two ancient greek words: philos (friend, or lover) and sophia: (wisdom or knowledge). Therefore philosophy is the love for wisdom, the will of knowing!

David Hume came up with the following: Suppose a child is born devoid of all senses: he has no sight, no hearing, no touch, no smell, no taste... nothing. There is no way whatsoever for him to receive any sensations from the outside world. And suppose this child is fed intravenously and otherwise attended to and kept alive for 18 years in this state of existence. The question is then asked: Does this 18 year old person have a thought in his head? If so, where does it come from? How does he get it?

Kant complicated the whole thing with the "a priori" concept, where ideas like time and space are part of living creature despite the presence or not of any perception ability and memories... but there I get lost...

So there you are: you forget about time and space, it looks like you have opened the door to a new dimension where everyone has gone partying somewhere else... you play a game of questions and answers, the most personal questions or the less private doesn't really matter because what you are driven by is the wish of knowing... the love for sophy... But it's a good nice game... and what you are doing? You ask a question and you are philosophying (Don't you hate when they verbify noun?)

But if you have never experienced any physical sensations how would you know blue is your favorite color? And why?

Maybe in order to Philo Sophy all you have to do is to take it easy... what's the rush when you have all the time of this world?! Why trying to define life when you can live it?..
But how can you take it easy when you should get the best out of the time you have? How can you take it easy when it's defining its purposes that allow you to live your life at the very most?

I read above and I get lost in thought! But that's all right, it wouldn't be a good philosophy post if I could understand it and be left with no preguntas de rogar...


0 Comments:

Post a Comment



<< Home