Who am I? who hasnt ever being busy in one task and all of the sudden ask yourself this question? W ho has answered this question? or even more complex, how to answer this question? How to know who am I?
As always we are here upon the Infinite-headed dragon that is philosophy (Hydra?). We must use the always-handy weapon called reason to answer this.
How to define who am I? Savater proposes us to define ourselves by the inside and the outside. In the inside by our thinking, our reasoning, our soul, what makes us ourselves. And the outside, by the body, by the body we control. My definition of who am I is "The soul which lives in this period of time within a body".
And here comes the dragon again, Are you in a body or a body? Well, this question is like an explosion (BLAM!) to everyone´s head. Savater talks about a theory called reductionism, where they propose that the soul is a mere "mode" of the body. And well, I reverse this situation and think "What if the body is a mere 'mode' of the soul?, a manifestation of the soul in this 4 dimensional universe we live in?". Its a nice theory to think that the soul is really trascendental and that this life is just one stage, one manisfestation of it.
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I agree with you Luis, I think that the definition you gave about the soul is correct. I also think the soul is more important than the body itself. Life as we said depends a lot on your soul and the way you think towards anything, the body itself helps us maintain that soul alive, but the soul is something that is very important for life.
ReplyDeleteHi Luis! I Liked your post because of this phrase... "Are you in a body or a body?" I think that, this wakes up many questions about ourselves and makes me doubt.. what are we?
ReplyDeleteMaybe we are a soul, I mean some religions believe in reincarnation, so we might just be moving through a life cicle or maybe we want to believe this because we are way too scare to face that we are not immortal! haha I don't know for sure what are we but I wish I could be more than just a body in decomposition
Hey Luis, for the first question, as you said, everyone have asked themselves that or maybe a very similar one (including me). There is the explanation we are a soul inside a body, but I think we are also a body, in the sense, the two combined because the body is also part of us. I like your point, the body being a mode of the soul; this would explain somehow what I think we are.
ReplyDeleteLuis I liked the fact that you focused on the body and soul, specially when you stated what Savater proposes on his book. I agree when he talks about the inside and the outside all though I wouldn't relate them as soul and body, I think what we are is a combination of our inside and outside instead of body and soul because how we act and how we express ourselves defines us. I don't necessarily agree that we have a soul, but instead what we do defines us and I think that's why it is important for us humans to act properly.
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