TIME

What is time? For me time is a product of man's deductions and massive information that allows all people to communicate better and to locate ourselves in a more exact plane, to introduce people to what we are trying to communicate and situate them in our context, and by this path reach the goal of interaction between humans and make possible our co-existence. I think it may be possible that mad scientists and people with radical capacities analyzed this, getting to the conclusion that it can be flexible and that people should not conclude that the time is absolute, as we have seen among all these philosophy chapters, there is not absolutism in any chapter and in any thought that is universal. I think people who start to study and become obsessed with this time travelling thing are losing time that they will never get back, it is not easy to create a time machine and I could predict that people have died spending years related to this time traveling instead of living the now. Yeah, I know the word now does not stand completely for the present but what I am trying to say is that people shall live in all senses, letting apart all those aspects that somehow absorb time itself, consuming every moment of life that we are living, prohibiting us from being free and happy. Everyone shall worry more on improving the relationships with their family and people they cherish to don't have a reason to go back in time and repair mistakes.

In this last chapterof the book "The Questions of Life" Fernando Savater talk about time and how we use tiume but that doesn't even matter, some questions that we ask ourselves are how did time started?, wh started it?, and what did they do to know when do they start them. Those questions are not easy to answer but I'm sure someone had made already a hypothesis of it.
Well after reading this chapter I learned that every person has to enjoy every minute of his life even if in the past they did something wrong, because life is a gift given by god and you have to take advantage of it or try to use and make it worth avery minute and second of your life.
Some people think or try to get into the future before they even pass the present, and that is not a good thing because you are trying to see what and where destiny puts you in, instead of you being the creator of your own life, and try to make it the best way possible.
As a conclusion, I can tell everyone who reads this post,that you should enjoy your life but just the part that you are liveng, never try to win the time or to make your life faster, because that is when people get lost and they dont even enjoy their lives. What happened already was a mistake and you should forgett it and overpass it, then create a better life with no regrets

Time

Throughout the semester we've been reading Savater's book "The Questions of Life" and every week we've been focusing on a different chapter/topic. After reading most of the book I started wondering which topic Savater would choose to finish his book and now that I've read it I think I understand why he picked "time" as his closing topic. Time is something so big and yet so enigmatic, it's really hard to define what time is. I mean sure, there is a technical definition in the dictionary but that's not what I mean. Time is essential in our everyday lives, we live according to it and it measures our entire life. The number of years we'll live, the number of seconds a kiss may last, the number of minutes the referee is going to add in a soccer game, everything is measured through time and that is why it is so important.

In his book, Savater quotes Pascal, who says that past is the most important of the 3 tenses. This has always been a topic of discussion because some people say that past and future are equally important but I want to try and prove them wrong.

Sure, our past defines our present, and we live our present focusing on the future but if you think about it, the past is unchangeable and the future unpredictable. No matter what you do you cannot alter the past and no matter what you do you cannot know what the future will bring.

This is why I think the present is the most important time to focus on. You should live every moment to the fullest without regreting what happened in the time and without worrying about the future, which may not even come.

I'm not saying that the past and the future are completely useless. On the contrary, we should learn from the past mistakes and we should always have goals to accomplish in the future, but only so that our present can be better.

Taking into account what has happened in the past helps us live the present better, we learn from past mistakes and try to avoid them because we know what tehy bring.

In the same way we plan our lives according to the future. We prepare ourselves in school for the future, we eat healthy so that we'll live longer and we take our time looking for a partner in life because we don't want to be alone in the future.

Nevertheless, to me, we do all these things so that our present feels better and more enjoyable. It's nice to have goals and it's nice to have memories of past times but I think that It is very important to know that the present is the only thing that matters because let's face it, no matter how much we want it, there's nothing we can do to change the past, and in the same way, we can die the next week, or tomorrow, or even in the next hour so, the only time worth focusing on for me, is the present. That's why I intend to live my life to the fullest each moment.

I heard a quote somewhere, I can't remember where but I think it's a nice way to close this post: "Dream as if you'll live forever, Live as if you'll die today"

Time Never Stops

In this chapter we talked about time and how does it has to do with everything. As the title says, time never stops. We can say "now I am reading", but two seconds later that "now" is going to be in the past; it is going to become a "before". Time goes on and on and never ever stops.

I agree with Augustine when he said that "if nothing passed, there would be no past time; if nothing were going to happen there would be no future time; and if nothing were there would be no present time".

There's nothing more "familiar" to us than time. Everything in our lives has to do with time. When we make an appointment we say the day and the hour; when we are going to a place we need to take time to get to that place; we have a specific time to present an exam; everything has to do with time.

There are a lot of theories about traveling through time, but I really don't think that it can happen. If we could travel in time, we could change things and the future would be different than how was going to be.

We have to be focused on living the present. The past has already gone and maybe the future will never come. Live today!

time

Time. We all relates our life with time, we say we don’t have time, I am on time. You always talk of it, but if I ask you what is time you will not be able to tell what it is or you may say me yes I know what it is but I don’t know how to explained to you.

We take a lot of it determining what was, but we really never get to a conclusion, but I think that we say that time is something we measure it by periods. In order to have movement we need time. What I am trying to say is that you could stop the time of the world there will not be any movement at all.

We can divide or classify time in three different ways, past, present, and future. Past, past are the old thing we can not change it for any reason, what you had done is now a memory, present, its only now and no other time, and future is the only thing that you could change, not really change but you could have and idea what will come, I say that because you could have an idea what is coming or what to speck by the thing that you are donning now. This contradict with the people that believe that the future is all ready writhed by god, people that believe that you have all ready a destiny and you cannot change it. So now tell me in what do you believe in the one that you could write you future or in the one that say that your future is all ready determined.

The Shiver of beauty

In the book The Questions of Life, Fernando Savater quotes an important philosopher, Plato. Plato said that we are "forced to follow the teachings of two very demanding tutors: pleasure and pain." This is a very thoughtful idea, because it makes us think about that which deeply in ourselves influences in a powerful way the totality of humanity and its individuals like the sexual pleasures for instance. As we saw in other chapters, there are common factors which unify humanity; I believe the pleasure and pain are members of the most important factors. Humans say often that they like something when they feel good while having it or experiencing it. There are also some people who declare to like something because of the emotions or feelings they have like suffering and sorrow, being these not so wanted but yet seen in our society. It would be beneficial if everyone would ask themselves whichever they live with more pain or pleasure, regarding their experiences and the interpretation both physical and mental they had about them. In my own judgment I would say that I had and have always interpreted life's experiences with pleasure or with pain, but never without any of those. It is curious that humanity wants to settle down everything that is experienced in a way or another, but never a middle point where everything is neutral and is just something that is. Humanity appears to take everything personally and compare it to human emotions, transforming the outside reality into an inner feeling.

Beauty

Well, this chapter was kind of wierd because Fernando Savater mixes some ideas that i didn't like because, what I think is that something is beauty if you like it, is not because you sar to think every aspect of the object or analize it because is not like tha. For me "beauty" is something that appears espontaniusly, a first impression. For example if I like a woman, i don't start thinking on every aspect of her, i just like her as a complete thing.
Thats why i disagree with Savater because this kind of ideas or thoughts shouldn't be related with phlosophy because isa waste thinking on beauty if it is smething physical and not philosophical.
Another example is when he states about the pyramids of Egypt that everyone can see that they're beatiful because of its height and size, but those characteristics are physical, is not something philosophical that we could analize and describe.
I'm not saying that Savater used bad ideas for his book, but what I'm trying to say is that why is he trying to relate something physical with philosophy, maybe he can have his point of view and I respect it but for my opinion I think he wasted his time and thougts in this chapter.