Death

A normal process of life from which most of the people is afraid to.. But there's nothing to be afraid from, because we don't know how is it, what happens, or anything when you die. Death is something no one can explain because no one hasn't experienced it.

I'm a person who thinks that death is something that will come someday, we never know when, how or why but we have to be mentally prepared for when it comes, we have to enjoy every minute of our lives like there's no tomorrow.

No one should be afraid about death because is part of the natural life cycle and if it didn't exist we wouldn't live our lives as we do it.

Many people think death is the final stage of a cycle, the end of our life, but how can they thin that if we don't know anything about it, What if it is just a new beginning? or if it is the continuation of our life but just in other place.

I'm pretty sure all people had asked to themselves this question, What is after death? Have you ask this question to your self? Well we'll not never gonna know.. so don't think about it and just enjoy your life.

Death

Everone in this world will experience what death is in the future or in the present, but when someone speaks about death everyone feels like anything wierd because is not normal is going to happen, but sometimes we have to show people that death is not a bad way of livng, but is a different way to enjoy this time.
One of the best frases of Fernando Savater is that death is no transferible this is going to be asked to create a ittle controversy but finaly for me it means that you have to die someday even if you dont want to because death is non-transferible and you can't die instead of any other people.
When i think about death is like rushing things too because we have to think on our porposes but aslo calculating time because when death does it.

Death

Why do we get so scared when we think about death? Why are we scared of something we haven't experienced? Why are we scared of something we don't know how does it feels? We will never know until it happens. Yes, it will happen. Someday. Just by knowing that our life is going to end, we get depressed and sad because we realize that we are not going to live forever. We realize that everything will come to an end.

When I was little my aunt died because of cancer and I didn't understand what was going on and why everyone was so sad and crying all the time, but then I realized that humans die. We are not going to life forever. Everything happens for a reason. Sooner or later, everything will end.

Like Fernando Savater say in his book, The Questions of Life, death is non-transferable; you can't die instead of someone else. He also say that death individualizes us, but at the same time makes us all equal. In death, no one is more or less than anyone else. 

"Nobody is too young to die nor too old to live another day". Not just because we are young means that we have a long life ahead, and not because we are old means that we are going to die right away. And like Montaigne said: "we don't die because we are ill but because we are death".

Death makes us think more about life. Knowing that we are going to die, makes us realize that we have to live our life as much as we can and enjoy every second of it. 

Death

Death. The end of life. The reason why people appreciate being alive. The thing that makes us human and thankful for the wonderful gift life is. Yes, because even though most people think of death as something horrible, I myself think of it as something great. You can think I'm crazy, you can say I've lost my mind, but before you do so, give me a chance to explain to you why I think death is great.

Ask yourself, why do you do what you do? Why did you start playing soccer? Taking guitar lessons? Why did you decided to finally ask that girl out? The answer is simple. It's because we all want to do the things that we love while we can, because no matter what concept of death you have, what's certain is that people as we know them stop existing the moment they die. You may talk about ghosts and spirits, but fully-corporeal human beings coming back from the death who are able to perform the same tasks living people do? I haven't heard of that. And that's what makes death so great.

When I started taking guitar lessons, I thought to myself, "you better do it know before you grow old and it's too late". But what if there was no "too late". What if we lived forever? Eternal life. Many people's fantasy. One of man's greatest desire. Nevertheless every time I think of eternal life here on earth (completely different than the eternal afterlife many religions promise), I can't stop but asking myself, would it be so great? would we do the same things that we do as mortals? I for one don't think so. I wouldn't have started taking my lessons if I knew I was going to live forever and it was never going to be "too late". I probably would've just said "I'll learn later". And you know what? I think I would never bother to learn, because what would the rush.

And that's precisely what death gives us: Rush. And along with the rush comes passion. Would we go out on dates trying to find the perfect couple? Would we bother to try and learn new, extracurricular stuff with the knowledge that we have no rush AT ALL? I think not. I believe that having an eternal life on earth would make us wander around through this planet without passion. And what is life without passion. For me... Something very, very boring.

So that's why I love death. The fact of knowing that my life is going to end sooner or later gives me the motivation I need to do the things I love. Because, it's the thought of knowing that later may be too late, that makes me want to seize life with passion and do the things I love as soon as possible.

death

Death. A theme that you could stay hours talking and you will never finish. Death is a normal process that will hapen to al living things. Realy in my personal i am not a fraid of dieing but i am a fraid or inpasient of how i will die. If it will be a fast or slow die or it will be painful or not thats my big question.

Other big question i have is that what happens after life. When we die do we do something or we just fall to sleep. Something that we discus in class was that if humans are more alive that and animal , and i think that no it does not make us more alive, there is nothing that could make us more or less alive. There is not a machine or something that measure us how alive we are becouse it is not posible to measue that.

For last another thing is that death it could not be tranferable or we can aboit. There is said that say when its ower time even if we move it and when is not ower time even if we look for it.

Why Philosophy?

why philosophy?

Philosophy: the study of general or fundamental problems.
Is it really the correct definition for phylosophy? May be it can be just a part of the whole theme "philosophy". A lot of people can say that philosophy is just for a person that is related with art (books, paintings, etc.) but philosophy is much more than that, and it is important because it has a lot of history and thoughts behind that without them we won't be able to live as we live now and the subject can be really useful for the future. In my personal opinion I think philosophy is related almost in everything because in every work or proffession, reading is inside.
I dont't have philosophical vocation and i don't really like philosophy but now is my subject and i have to make an effort to understand the really concept that this subject is going to get me through. Philosophy can also be related with critical thinking, because if you really think on something, like a lap-top or anything else, philosophy will help you understand why does the laptop works that way or just imagine how long it took to create what we use like a fundamental tool today.
Well as a conclusion philosophy is just one of the basic subjects and im looking forward that it should help us as well as other important subjects.

Why Philosophy?

Why philosophy? The question I keep asking myself since I knew we were going to have it as a subject this semester. Why do we learn philosophy if we're not going to use it? A lot of students ask themselves the same question: why philosophy? Honestly, I don't like philosophy at all. It consists almost on reading and I don't like to read, but when I read the introduction and the first chapter of Fernando Savater's book, The Questions of Life, I started to gain some interest in philosophy and to understand a little bit more about it.

"I only know that I know nothing". I think that Socrates is trying to say that we don't stop learning new things. When we learn something, we discover something else and so on. We are always generating new thoughts and we never stop asking ourselves more questions and we don't stop until we find them. 

 Maybe you think that science has the explanation for everything and that it has a specific way to solve things, but philosophy will help us to discover how to do things our own way and not like others say. Philosophy makes us think deeper and not only in the surface.

Fernando Savater's book, The Questions of Life, has captured my attention about philosophy with his first topic, death. It's something that we don't think that will happen, but sooner or later, it will. He tries to tell us that we don't have to be afraid of something that someday WILL happen, we cannot escape from death.

Writing about this and reading the book makes me think that maybe philosophy class is not a bad idea at all.

Why Philosophy

Why philosophy? This is a question that many people that don't understand or that dislike philosophy ask. My answer: Why not. Why shouldn't we look deeper? Why shouldn't we take it one step further?

Philosophy invites us all to question everything that revolves around us, and why shouldn't we? Why settle in just living life without meaning or reason when we can stop and analize the details in our life to try and understand all the questions the world throws at us.

I think that when you start questioning stuff about your life and the World in general, you start to realize how much there is to learn and how little you actually know.

I also believe that critical thinking is the key to wisdom, and from my point of view, the wiser the happier. And that is what philosophy seeks. To think critically, to dig deeper.

That is why for me philosophy is a window of opportunities. A chance to expand our knowledge of life. Because what's the fun in living life day by day without meaning or sense. Philosophy opens our minds and makes us realize how big the world is and how little we are. And therefore how many awesome things life has to offer.

my comment of theweek

the thing that i understand about the intorduction is that why we need to think about some questions and ask us some questions about something so complicated and try to explain us if are people specialist that they do it for us.. we dont know nothing about it.. the bad thing in here is that we all get satisfaid with the answer that the scientis give us.. like whats happening after we die. it also expolain us some diference about science and philosophy. science esplain us how thing are made and how they work and philosophy tell us what do they mean for us.