Let us begin with death

Mortal, that word describes me, you, your friends, and basically all the people in the world. We are going to die at some point, we can't live forever, besides, how tiring would be to wake up every morning and say: hey, another day, like all the ones i have lived and like all the ones I am going to live forever. For me, death is not only something personal, but a necessity as Savater said. If death didn't existed, why would we work for? if anyways we're gonna live forever, why should we study? etc. I think we all need to know that at somepoint this state called life is going to end, and that even if we go to another place/dimension we still finished "living" our lives, it's over.

I don't know exactly why is that people get afraid from death, it's not like its not going to happen to someone, everybody is going to experience it at certain time, but still, why would we have to worry about it if we are not even on that state right now. Why don't people worry about life instead, about teaching their children and other people to live their lives and not to fear about things that haven't occurred yet. I clearle agree with epicurus where he said that we should not fear death cause we haven't experienced it. In my opinion death is not here yet so let it come at the time it is going to arrive, try to explore all what you can and be comfortable living, while u still can.

Let us begin with death

Who hasn’t questioned himself about something related to death? I think that most of the people at a certain time have questioned themselves or others about something related to death. There are many suppositions around death, that if you were a good person during your life you go to heaven, if you were bad person you go to hell, that when you die you suffer lots of pain, or that when you are gone your body and your soul take different paths, etc. There are many suppositions similar to this one’s about death (they vary depending on your religion), but the truth is that none of this are proven to be right, how could any of us how is to be death or to die if we haven’t experience it, how do we know that death isn’t really a bad thing, maybe when you die you have a wonderful and pleasant experience.

The fear to death is no other thing that the fear to the unknown, the fear to the possibility of experiencing something at anytime that no one, who can talk with us about it, has experienced it. I think that we shouldn’t be scared of dying, when it come we should accept it as it is and to take advantage of that experience to use it, maybe, in other life.

Why philosphy?

I think that many people see philosophy as a boring subject, as something useless and most of all, something kind of annoying. Well I try to stay with a point of view which does not stereotype philosophy. I mean, if I haven't studied something deeply or experienced it, then I don't know why should I say: I don't like it. After reading the introduction of The Questions of Life, I ralized how many times we say words, express ideas, and even live our perspectives without understanding the meaning of what we are saying/making use of. Also, I find really interesting what Fernando Savater says about how sciences are developed from philosophy, and for me it sounds really logic that we first needed to ask basic questions, leading us into some type of analysis and interpretation, and as a result finding science as an outcome. So what about the thought people have about philosophy being an old subject, well I think they have to read more, and also, from what I've read philosophy is of great use not only for helping us realize many matters in the world, but to understand ourselves and why are we living for? To understand more humanity and to express our ideas, what we perceive of the world and sharing it to everyone. Sometimes I think about the fact that maybe we're just living what we want to live and not what we are "able to live", but I mean that's my point of view, with this book I hope to gain more of them.

All but Death, can be Adjusted

I begin with this quote by Emily Dickinson, because I think is the simpler way to define what death is; you as a person can adjust everything but death. You do not know when is going to be your time to die, you just die.  Like Savater 

said, there is nothing more personal than death, because is destined to each and every one of us. We cannot escape death; it is going to happen at the time that was destined to you, it can be as insignificant as going down the street and getting run over by a car. Some people say, they have tricked death by surviving an airplane crash, or a sinking boat; but actually it was just not the time for them to die.

If we know that we are going to die, why is dying so scary to us. Maybe is because we do not know what is after our time in this world.  Maybe because we are so comfortable living out here that we do not want to leave this place, these are some of my theories by which we are afraid to die.  But at the end, we all will have to die. This is what makes us human, this is what humanizes us; at the end we accept that we are going to die and by this we enjoy each last event even more.

Afraid of death?

Who isn’t afraid of death? By only thinking about it, people become nervous, angry or depressed. Knowing that our life is going to end someday, becomes in the most tragic thought you could have. One day, when I was about 6 years old, my grandfather died and I remember watching everyone crying and depressed, and I never understood why until later on when I became conscious that one day, sooner or later, it all ends.

When you realize about death, we appreciate more everything. Every second, we are closer to death and there’s nothing you can do about to stop the clock from ticking. Talking about it, thinking about it, even dreaming about it, is uncomfortable.

I’d always question myself, what will happen to me when I’m gone? I think that you can’t just disappear and that’s the end of your story, something else MUST happen! But after reading chapter one I realized that instead of worrying about what will happen to me after life, I should start enjoying it because you never know when death is coming upon us. Every moment can be our last and I’d came to realize that you need to enjoy life as much as you can while you have it because as Savater quotes “Although at times death may seem improbable, it is always possible”.

Let us begin with death

In this first chapter the author talks about death. For me death is something I’m scared of and personally something that I hate to think about. I also hate and fell uncomfortable for a long time when someone familiar or something familiar (dog, fish, cat, etc) dies. It makes me feel very depress for a long time.
While reading the chapter I realized that there are many questions and contradictions towards death, that I also have or well have think of once in my life. For example I once passed something similar to the beginning of the chapter when I was younger I don’t know what made me think of death, but it made me feel very bad and made me cry, I just can’t forget that day (I couldn't’t sleep until the next day). It made me think of what would happen after I died and many other questions.
I found a quote from Spinoza “A free man thinks of death least of all things, and his wisdom is a meditation of life, not death”. I think that yes I agree with what he’s trying to say because I don’t find any positive things thinking about death, I really prefer to think about my life, my future, my family and all the years that I have ahead of me. I think that everyone instead of thinking of death should live their life and pursuit happiness.
So in resume, death is something that will happen to everyone in this world. Some people really like to think of and believe in eternal life, but for others (like me) is something that really prefer not to think of.

Why Philosophy?

Since I remember I’ve always asked myself, what are the uses of philosophy in our times? We live in a world full of information, of scientific discoveries and data, so in this type of world, what is the purpose of philosophy. I couldn’t answered this questions until now, recently I started taking philosophy classes, and I understand that every day we have philosophical thoughts, every time that I ask myself; Why am I here? What is my purpose in life? Or what happens after I die?, I am philosophizing, and in the seek to answer these questions (or try to answer them, because sometimes I can’t) I am applying philosophy to my life.

Philosophy is to understand why things happen, to get to know what is the purpose of all actions that happens around us, we must not accept things because they just happened, we must find why do things happen, how does that affect us and the people who is around us. This means that we must do some critical thinking in everything that happens around us, we need to analyze and reflect why things happen. To conclude I must say that if we think more philosophically and also do more critical thinking the world we live in would be a better place for everyone.

"The Acme Of Life Is The Understanding Of Life"

Since the beginning of times, human beings have had the necessity of understanding things, they have created many different sciences in which they can explain certain concepts of our life; some other things cannot be explained with scientific methods. This is where philosophy gets into the picture. I have always asked to myself, why is philosophy important for us human beings? 

After I began reading the Questions If Life by Fernando Savater I realized that not everything in life is explained scientifically or even religiously. Learning is the base of philosophy; Socrates said, "I only know that I know nothing", this means we will not know everything there is; we will continue learning until we die. 

There is three ways of getting to know something, there is information (the Facts), there is knowledge and there is wisdom (how we interpret knowledge and information). Science consists in information and knowledge, philosophy is made of knowledge and wisdom. This is useful because even though we get some answers we keep doing more questions and we do not get a definite answer. The person who has stopped asking questions has stopped learning which in this case, ended with the cycle of our life.

In conclusion, philosophy has been here since the Greeks and before and will continue to exist. Philosophy makes us understand the things science cannot, so it will exist until the end of times.

Why philosophy?

Why philosophy? That’s exactly the same question I keep asking myself. I'd always thought that philosophy is mean less and I would never apply it in my life, and now for the first time, I’m taking a philosophy course at high school.

I’d always hated the idea of having a philosophy class, but after reading the introduction of the book “The questions of life”, I’m getting to know that philosophy may have a purpose after all. As the book says “why do we study philosophy in the 21st century?” Well, I have been thinking about that a long time. I thought that with science, we had all the answers we needed and any question we had, by science, we could get a real and satisfactory answer.

The charges against philosophy as the book quotes “it serves no purpose”; so why do we need to study it? That’s when I started thinking that science may not have all the answers we are looking for. Science really only tell us facts, which without philosophy, wouldn't mean anything at all. By philosophy we can think further into a question that maybe hasn't a straight answer that science can offer us.

Numbers, facts and graphs are all mean less if you don’t apply them to your life, to what that really means to you, so that’s why I’d changed my mind and I now noticed that this course of philosophy may be helpful after all.

"I only know that I know nothing"

This is the first time in my life I will post something on a blog. The question is my opinion towards, Why philosophy?

Here’s what I think. Many times I have questioned myself why should we study Philosophy. When I knew I was going to have a Philosophy class in this year, I couldn’t believe it because one of the things I hate the most is to read and see things about ancient people. I hate philosphy because for me is obsolete, something you don’t need and something you neither use in life.

After I have read the introduction I knew that I was on a correct path because they describe Philosophy as: it serves no purpose. Like I think the people we should put attention and be focused on are the one’s that discover new things and change the world. Those people are the one’s that should be heared, not the one's who only say phrases or quotes.

It’s intresting to know that philosophy and science are related, or well, cloesely related. With philosophy we have answers to questions and not solutions. This is when I start to think that Philosophy isn’t obsolete, and therefore exists for a reason, and because it exists, it means that it should be teached generation after generation. Philosophy has been a way of inspiration for many scientists, and therefore this two will always try to answer any question related to life.

We can conclude that Philosophy exists and is teached for a reason. With philosophy we widen our own personal view of the world, while scientists only answer questions and give possible solutions to our problems. Philosophy let’s us think more closely about a problem and let’s us think beyond a simple solution that a scientist would gave us. Philosophy like I have said before opens our mind wider and make us think beyond a simple answer we have to a problem.