17 mar 2010

Rationalism Vs Empirucism


If I had to choose between rationalsm or empiricism I would choose rationalism. There are many reasons why I trust my mind over mi body. FIrst of all I believe that my senses are tricked all the time, I see things that aren´t true. When I watch a movie I can feel it´s real, my senses get mi into another world I don´t belong and it´s my mind the one that recognizes that it´s only a movie, that its not true. Besides there are limitations in the senses, for example I know that atoms exist even if Im not able to recognize one, I can´t feel them. My senses can be triccked all the time, they make me belive in things that are not truth, My mind is able to question the thing I Think, if I see a house I am shure that the house is there, if I think in a theory I can test it so I can be shure if the theory is right or wrong. Magic is an example of how weak senses really are, magicians can make us believe that a rabbit can appear inside and emty hat, our mind is the one who tell us that is imposible that a rabbit is inside something empty so me recognize our senses had fail. This is the reasons why I choose rationalism, because I belive is stronger.

14 mar 2010

Am I Real?


DEscartes to me is the guy who suffered the most horrible existencialist crisis. He actually wondered wether he is real or just a dream. He thought that he could be only part of a dream, that it was possible that he din´t exist. He spend all his life thinking of these, it may seem unimportant to think about thies but that is just because we stopped wondering things, we think that our own existence is normal, so ther is no reason to star making question about this, but this guy did. After a lifetime of thinking about this, he came out with the solution, Cogito Ergo Sum. I think therfor I am, this is a quote we have all heard, but we dint knew why or what does it mean. It says that as im capable to think, I exist, this is the thing that differences me and a pillow. This is why he is called a rationalist, he believes that the way of knowing he exist is not because he can touch and feel stuff but because he can think. The mind is what really matters. We wondered about his existance because he dindt trust his senses, this means he is not an empirist and he is a rationalist.

Omnieverything


In the middle ages there was difficult to say things about God, because what words can be used to describe such a big being. But thuy tried anyway. The kind of words they used were bigo words that could describe hoy big God really is. The words they used are words that referes to the everything. For example omnipresence, this word means that he is EVERYwere, like there are no limits, this word alouds to make God wat superior than us. This words break the boundries we have, we as phisych beings are attatched to certain rules and conditions, God was adrressed like a being with no imits, no rules, no boundries. We can only be in one place at the time, we have limited amount of information, so to make people understand the huge difference between the power of a normal human and God they star talkink about a God that can do absolutly everuthing we can´t. This words like omnipresence or omniscience are reflecting that God is able to do everything, and to be everything. This is the method they use to create an impact on people, to describe this thing that is so superior than us that can do and can be everything. So in conclusion the came out with this words that are the closest thing to refer to God.