A danger for society

Forever in the history of humanity  have been problems in the increasing formation of society. Now a days a danger for this formation is the absolute loss of values.
I consider that respect is the most important value for better relations between us and our environment, disrespect towards our own nation has caused the loss of our natural resources and territory, lack of respect for life causes killings and lack of respect for others cause conflicts.
I found sad that we as living beings do not respect life, since the life of a person to a flower and that is a danger  because it is not possible that we  kill a human being while we are humans in the same way it is not possible that we finish with the animal and plant´s life when we live from those.
Loss of values is a danger for the society in a cultural, political and human way because corrupts,  disarms an order implanted by society and also the order implanted by nature.
The type of education and training that people get can be a hazard when they are not  mould with the basis of the values morally correct and accepted.

Interview to a wise person

 Gabriel Cervates Bello

Chess player and mathematician with a doctorate and two masters. He was born in Puebla, his father is a private accountant and his mother a housewife.

He started playing chess at the age of 15, he went to many chess tournaments and because of win some tournaments he has international ranking.

He studied at BUAP, and did a master in statistics and other in mathematical reasoning at the University of Texas with a grant.

At Tecnologico de Monterrey he studied the doctorate in statistics, he has done and is doing projects at Chile, Canada and USA with the support of the Tecnologico de Monterrey.

He has done many acts of charity towards animal life.
Now a days is 46 years old.

Interview:

Which are your priorities in life?

My priorities are my daughters , my health and learn something new every day, try to give an example and find a way of interpreting life

Do you have a personal mission?

I think my mission is to live life so that when you die can be remembered as a person who lived as I thought it was worth living

Have you ever done an unselfish act of kindness?

I have rescued stray dogs , and sometimes this is dangerous and sometimes very sad

How do you feel when you do that?

I feel I contributed a little to the construction of a better place to leave our children , and I feel that although no one sees me , somehow it makes me be consistent between what I think and what I do

What experiences you have lived, that change your opinion about life?

Perhaps the death of my brother makes me think that you should never live in a hurry

Do you think that if you have not lost your brother you never would have learned that?

I think so

What is wisdom for you?

It is recognizing your own limitations and your ability to change or to encourage others to change. It is not knowledge , it is a way of living

How can you know that a person is wise?

I think that being a simple person is a good way to express wisdom

Name 2 people you consider wise

Mandela and Gandhi

What have  you learned from them?

I have learned that we must learn when to act and when we find situations that cannot be changed, but push hard to change whenever it is possible

Do you think that a president must be wise?

A president must be wise enough to surround himself with honest people

The Death of Socrates

To analyze the picture.

The Death of Socrates, is a magnificent work of the neoclassical painter Jacques-Louis David, is located at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It was made in 1787

  Around 399 BC. BC Socrates, with 70 years old was sentenced to die by drinking hemlock for speaking publicly against the ancestral gods,  'corrupt' their wards and criticize authority.         The painting depicts the great philosopher Socrates, when he drank from the cup of hemlock. David delete some characters that were when  Socrates died and adds others. With him are his disciples. Crito, his friend and disciple, the one who puts his hand on the Socrate´s thigh.

       Plato, although he was not that day due to illness, is at the left showing his grief. The author was represented Plato old when in fact he was young when Socrates died, perhaps to show maturity and the ability to face frustation.

      In the scene the jailer who gives the cup is afflicted and turns to not see death. Socrates is at the center as the teacher who was always with his disciples, strong and without fear of what the future holds for him.

The white color in Socrates represent the purity and tranquility of the good man he was, we can note that the light is on Socrates and extends over his disipulos, representing that Socrates is the light of wisdom.

      The background is dark because it represents darkness left at his death and  the sadness.

                                                      

From Plato apology

To read the passage and answare the questions:

• In the passage you just read, what did the god say about Socrates through the voice of the prophetess?

The philosopher was surprised very much because he thought he knew nothing, in fact one of his most famous maxims is just know that I know nothing.
After dialogue with those who listened to him, we can observe that the others do not  know what they thought they knew, they ignored their own ignorance, while Socrates knew he did not know, and being aware of his tremendous ignorance was wiser.

• How does Socrates propose to disprove the god’s statement?

Saying that he does not know nothing and taht exisits other person who is wisest

Socrates is still convinced that he is ignorant and has nothing to teach, but now he knows why the god said he was wiser than anyone else in Athens.

• In what way is he wise?

 Socrates is wise in the way that he recognize his lack of wisdom, because while he knew more he realized that he did not know many things, abd he question all.

In the next passage, Socrates anticipates that the court may let him go free on the condition that he cease to do philosophy and stop asking his annoying questions.
• What is his response to this potential offer of a plea bargain?

Socrates says that if he is acquitted, he will not fail to ask and question; proclaims the right of freedom of expression. He decided never  stop philosophizing because his life was that, and if he could not live he will get close to the unknown death.

• What does Socrates see as his mission?

Walk trought the streets of Athens talking to people on how "I think I've been placed on the city by order of God to alert you and correct you, while encoraginar anyone wandering all day in the streets and plazas."

• What does he say is the mistake that the citizens of Athens are making?

Believe that a man with a minimum of courage should be concerned about these potential risks of death before the honesty of their actions. The fear of death is believed without being wise: presume to know something that is unknown, no one knows what death is, or if it is ultimately the greatest good that can happen to a human, and the citizens of Athens hardly find someone like me, the mistake is that they will be always in the ignorance because they are putting away the wisdom and preffering the politics.

• In the next passage, why do you think that Socrates says that a bad person cannot harm a good person?  Do you agree with this statement? Why?

Because a bad person can damage a good one here, in a civil way, physically   but beyond no, spiritually evil can not touch a man, someone bigger than evil. 
I agree with that because you can take the life of someone but never his ideals and his wisdom

• Why does Socrates think that his accusers (Meletus and Anytus) are harming them- selves by prosecuting him?

Because they will not see never the light of wisdom, privation of liberty is what they make and for that  themselves do not know the reason.

• In the next passage, Socrates says to the jury that he is arguing not for his sake but for theirs. Why does he think that it is the citizens of Athens who are really being judged by the outcome of this trial and not him?

He said that because they are condening themselves to the ignorance

• What evidence does he give that his intentions were to unselfishly serve the people of Athens?

Poverty was his sufficient witness


Glossary
Bodly 1. Fearless and daring, courageous
          2.Requiring or exhibiting caourage or daring

Gadfly 1. A persistent irritating critic, a nuisance
            2.One that acts as a provocative stimulus, a goad 

To create a collage representing the next study fields based on "What do philosophers study?

Logic, politics, ethic, religion, metaphisics and epistemology.

Logic: those numbers are because for the philosophers distiguishing correc from incorrect reasoning is the logic, when you can associate the numbers you are having a reasoning activity, when you see a half of an eye your brain construc the image trought the reasoning and then you can know what is the complete image.

Epistemology: philosophers ask about the meaning of truth, how you can know what is true or not, and  if truth is relative or not, because of that we put some question marks, they also ask: What is knowledge ? we represent the knowledge with the book because there you find it.

Methaphysics: philosophers ask if the behavior is casually determetated or if it can not be explained, is concerned with questions about the nature of reality, are we free? and the relationship between the mind and the body, those images in the collage represent the suposed freedom in the universe, the man has the legs and the arm in that position because represent the unique space in the world that humans can reach, the abstract image represents taht the relation between the mind and the body is abstract.

Religion: the philosopher asks is the existence and nature of the universe self-explanatory, or it need a divine creator that is outside? the images represent the divine creator and the universe which is his creation, but they asks if something else was the creator.

Ethics: are they objetively correct ethical values? are they relative? the images represent the values that are correct and incorrect, but are they relative? the values are implnted by the society or they are simpely relative?

Political: they ask what is justice and the limits of governmental authority and what is individual freedom. The image of the flag of the United Nations because represent the justice and the world represent the freedom  a human can be in all the world because is free, but is it relative? which are the limits? id you are free you can know that why there are books, the animals are in their natural environment because represent also the freedom 

Thales, Anaximander and Anaximenes

To create a comic story in which Thales, Anaximander and Anaximenes explain which is the origin of the living beings.

This 3 philosophers explained that the world was created with one of the things taht they can saw in their environments and what they percieved through the sences.
Thales thought that water was the source of  all things, maybe he said that all kind of life has its origin in the water, probably when he was in Egypt he observed that everything around the river Nile grows or that after the rain worms and frogs appeared, I think he was not far of the reality because now a days we know that the origin of the life was in the water, and after taht the organisms evolved and form new, he needed to explain how was the transformation of the water into everithing he knew.
Anaximander tought that our world is one of the many worlds taht born and die for something he called the indefinite, maybe he thought that the thing taht created other things had to be different to the created thing.
He was correct in the part that what makes a thing is different to the created thing but is the union of many "indefinite" things there is not just one, and there are some matterials that are the base of everyting, he needed to investigate what was that "indefinite" thing.
Anaximenes tought that the base of everything was the air, and when it get condensed formed new things, maybe he watched that the ground and sand were from the ice melted, also thouhgt taht the fire must be diluted air, so he shared with Thales the idea that there is one prime material which form everything, is true that all  needs the air because there we can found oxygen, but also we need someting more to exist and to be in the world with live, is true also that the fire comes from oxygen but just dilutd air do not make fire.
I think that for the knowledge of that epoch their thinkins were excellent.

The creation of the world

In the past pleople invented stories trying to explain how the world and man were created
Here my story

At the beginning of time a supreme being created a place where an other kind of life can live putting ground, water, oxygen, day, night and food. Then with parts of his body created the human, one man and one woman, he gave them mercy, feelings, reproduction capacity, intelligence and could be ill. But the bodies were so perfect that if they got sick the body could heal itself  and if they suffered any cuts could regenerate too. So they could stay connected to their world he gave them vision, touch, smell, ears to hear and a tongue to taste.

 And to be sure that the humans he created were a live the human´s body could be old to death with the passage of time.

This story is  religious because they talk about a supreme being known as God who gave us a body, an habitable place and the ability to relate with the world through the senses, it has also a part of science which tells us that the body has the ability to heal without intervention of God and that with the passage of time we die.