In this chapter Savater talks about knowledge in humans and about reason. We throught our life have acquired knowledge by experience, by studying and also by teachings or tellings from others.
But ther’s a time when we question ourselves if the knowledge we got when we were young will help me survive in the future, or if the person that told me some facts were correct. As Savater says “I must seek arguments that enable me to accept or refute my knowledge”
In my opinion we should sometimes verify if our knowledge is correct or not. Eventhough I think that the knowledge you get through experience is something you can’t seek arguments for or question it because it’s something that you have already tried or used.
In the other hand I think that the knowledge you must check or well, prove it right, is the knowledge acquired by tellings from others. Why? There are many people that could tell you that they are right and have a wrong answer. For example in my family there’s this uncle who always wants to be right and always wants to tell the others that he’s correct in everything and that you can’t never change his mind. One time there was this questions about wether or not a politician should rule the city, he insisted that he shouldn’t, but the others said yes. He got so angry that he shouted “Okay you have the reason” and he left. This is when you see that you can meet people saying that their beliefs or knowledge are the only one’s, even though they could be wrong. So this is when we should verify our knowledge and reason it. And be aware of those persons!
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I agree with some stuff that Martin wrote but I disagree with some other. For example, I totally agree with his explanation about the uncle. We definitely should be aware of the sources of our knowledge. It should be a trustable source otherwise we could maybe extend a false argument. I totally agreed with Martin about this but he also said that there is a point in our lives that we question ourselves about our knowledge, I think that’s what we should all do, but not everyone does it. This is the big deal not everybody questions themselves about the sources of the knowledge which is INCORRECT because examples as the one of the uncle happen.
ResponderEliminarI know Martin I have the same questions as you, how can I know if the things that I believe since I was little are true?, but I think that in this times we are more available to sources of information from where we can get it and investigate to have a better idea , don’t you think so?, i know that they can be incorrect, so thats why we have to keep questioning and using owr reasoning to get the real and universal truth.
ResponderEliminarYou made a leap from theory to 'real life' here, that's great! Funny enough, I have an uncle like this, too! Maybe everyone has to have one relative who thinks they know everything. It might be a mandatory part of having family.
ResponderEliminarAlso, I agree with Alejandro's rebuttal of part of your reasoning. I think everyone trusts their own experience too much! It's the reason I showed the speech about how "Predictably Irrational" people can be. We think we know what's going on around us, but we don't take time to question whether we are observing reality or reality is affecting how we observe and experience it.
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