Richard Dawkins

During his interview they talk about different important topics that usually caused some controversy within the society, for example the comparison between brains and computers it's pretty cool, I never thought about it before but I kind of agree with it, he said that in computers there's a programmer and in brains the programmer is natural selection, and it's true actually, our bodies reprogram every time we need them to.
Another thing could be that he does believe in determinism, that our bodies just like computers work and program based on existing conditions, and it's kind of like true, bodies don't change based on free will, it will sometimes just happen.
What I didn't understand at all was the device thing, he created it to record animal behavior, and to transfer it directly into the computer instead of doing all the transcription work, and it works with a software based on small different sounds that will be decoded, but how can the device actually recognize the behavior how is it build??
Then he talks about the most misunderstood aspect of human evolution, and he says that it is that people see a living being and they think that they exist from causality, but that's all wrong because they obviously don;t exist due to random circumstances, and there's where the natural selection is the best answer to solve this problem; so I think this non-random force is God, because he is the one who created all the living things on earth, and based on his work, or like the genetic code is where the changes come from.
When they talk about religion, Richard Dawkins says, although he was born in an anglican culture, and he use to believe in it too, he also said that as human beings there is a predisposition to believe or have a religion in the culture, and it is know as a psychological predisposition which is pretty normal, there's a religion found in every culture, even the ancient cultures.
At the end of the interview the talk about Darwin's theory of evolution and how important or remarkable it is, and I do agree on his conclusions, it is a simple explanation for a really complex idea or process, and it is really weird that nobody had come to it before, even thought there where a lot of pretty smart philosophers on ancient years, and we did not accept it at all until the 9th century, funny isn't it?

Averroës

According to Immanuel Kant philosophy forms part of human life since we are little children, we always ask ourselves and other about what's going on around us but that doesn't necessarily means that we will always study philosophy it is know that we are not really finding philosophy studies previous to college or outside a Catholic Church, but studies had find in Morocco that almost everyone has at least the basic knowledge of what philosophy is.

Philosophy was mainly studied in Ancient Greece but then it faded away in an era know as the "Dark Ages",until some philosophical movements where they reemerge all around the world.

During the enlightenment and the rise of modern sciences the study of philosophy mainly took place in Islamic cultures, who wanted to recovered these old traditions, making Baghdad the intellectual center during the medieval world.

Averroës who developed close ties with Almohad caliphs became an influential religious judge and physician, he devoted much of his scholarly efforts to a series of commentaries on Aristotle. The most interesting thing about Averroës was although he was a muslim he had little influence on the medieval world, his works survived only in Latin and Hebrew translations. He mixed philosophy with religion and promoted logic as key to true understanding of religion.

Points of view:
1)The world has always existed
2)Souls will survive, but will never return to the same bodies
3)intellect and soul are separate

He affirms that there should not be conflict between philosophy and faith, but he accepts not everyone should question religion as philosophy demands.

Because in great Muslim Universities was no place for philosophy because they were mainly religion Averroës ideas were't important for them, however thanks to his ideologies many universities in the western world make philosophy part of their program.

Epicurean

1) I stayed at home the whole weekend to study and practice for my calculus exam 

2) My mom goes to her room to watch some TV

3) My dad sits on the coach every evening and takes a nap

4) I play some music on the car when I drive to school (or everywhere I go)

5) My sister goes to her room to read a new book she just got

6) By brother spends his afternoon playing on his x-box

7) I call my dad on the afternoons to ask how everything is going on work

Me and my friends go to a sushi restaurant to talk about everything and anything

9) The girl went to the movies to enjoy a movie by herself

10) I went for a walk after my exam to relax 

11) My dad sits on the living room and plays cards on his computer

12) A friend bakes muffins at home 

13) My dad rides bicycle on weekends to do some sports

14) I call my best friend who’s living in Aguascalientes just to keep in touch

15) We go to Starbucks on school breaks to buy some tea or coffee

16) The woman goes with her children to the church

17) My sister takes the dog for a walk

18) My brother walks with his friends to the mall or the park

19) My sister dances ballet every afternoon

20) I watched a movie with my family every weekend

Aristotle (384-322 ac)

He was son of a doctor in Macedonian court, when he assisted to Athens academy he was disciple from Plato for 20 years until he decided to separate form Plato’s teachings saying that he was a friend of Plato but he was more friend of the truth that’s when he created his own philosophy, Aristotle was realist he believed that the concepts and ideas are present in the world, and that based on the existence of individuals and objects, our mind creates the concepts, which show our capacity of thinking on the diversity of the world, ideas are fictitious, there only exist individuals.

In 344 Filipe of Macedonia calls him and names him preceptor from his son Alexander the great,; with Alexander’s help he created the lyceum where he dedicated to the study of physics, biology, ethics, politics, etc. Then he created a big library and a zoo with money from the court.

Aristotle said that the man was a rational and politic, we are rational because we are capable to think and reflect about our actions and surprise about them, and this is considered to be the basis of philosophy, to be surprise of things and then ask ourselves about it, but we are politic because we have to live in civilizations or cities, nobody is able to live alone we have to share a language and our life with somebody else.

Aristotle also created the first classification of science; productive science, which consists on beautiful and useful objects; practical science which where mainly ethics and politics and the theory science which were about knowledge that then turned into metaphysics. 

He believed in the empirical knowledge of nature, which comes from observing and from life experiences, Aristotle is known as one of the first Scientifics he used to prove his theories based on observation and making experiments. He also said that change was really important, it was the process of being a potential to an act, for example the seed of a tree is in potential a tree, because even though it will become a tree with time or like chairs, you can have an old one, a new one, some color chairs, and in every shape but they will still be chairs.

Aristotle also created a new are of study, the ethics, everything starts on customs and personality of the individuals, and in conclusion everything is an instrument to find or achieve our goals but beyond that everyone is searching happiness. In few words ethics is the study of human action in a pursuit of happiness, and freedom but we have to develop virtues, which give us the strength to avoid weakness. We have to practice them and always pay attention to those who we considered excellent in their virtues and make from ourselves virtuous individuals.

Plato's Cave

Plato’s Cave

Plato’s story it’s about how knowledge works, if we stay on what I will say our comfort zone we won’t be able to learn anything else about what surround us we need to look beyond of what our eyes show you, we live in a big world that nowadays everything is connected, specially from country to country and people to people. If we just stay on the idea that the place where you live is the whole world for you; you’ll be just loosing time, of course it is important but there’s more that we can reach

The first video tells the story with cartoons and a narrator explains what is going on, I think it is a good video because it helps us understand the background and the main concepts, it is really specific about what the prisoner learned and how everything so interesting was, the idea is concrete and simple. 

In the second video it show us the story with images and a much younger voice, but I think it is kind of confusing because what I imagine is actually a cave and here it shows pictures of our actual world and it is kind of confusing, they just show the things, like when they say the prisoners where watching a type of screen it actually shows a TV and when it explains about the fire and the shadows it shows actually fire, just fire and I think I didn't get the whole concept of the story with this one, I know I can compare it with real life but I rather make the connection my self, because too many information of different sources kind of confuses the story and the main idea. 

The third video was the one I like the most it is like a documental and explains every point of the story, it shows the learning process of the prisoner who went out of the cave, and the different points of view about the story, how some students thought on the cave like a human brain or as the world.

I think the video I will show to explain the story will be depending on the people I want it to explain, I f I want them to get their own conclusions from nothing I will show the first video with animations but if I want them to understand more than their own conclusions I will show the third one.

Epistemology

From all the types of Philosophy we are studying in class i think Epistemology is the one i find the most interesting because it talks about how do we know things, and how do we know if it is true.

I think is the most interesting because it's what we, as human being, have always done, we learn since we appeared in the world, when is time to eat, when is time to sleep, to talk, to walk, to keep relations with other people like our parents, our siblings and our friends, in few words is what we do everyday in our lives.

Personally, I Iike learning languages and this philosophy kind of explains how does that works.

The Divine Comedy

It was a text difficult to read but I kind of got it, the chapter we had talks mainly about the visions or the rules in which your sins may be punished. It also talks about some visions about how it is and who can or can't go there, a comparison between hell and heaven or even purgatory.
The ways the sins are seen and the circles your soul may go.
Basically it's a man that talks about what he discovers and what he sees, for example there are 3 animals which represent the bad side of human behavior.