Day 5
First Greek lesson
I was very exiteded this Monday because we had our first ancient greek lessons. Moris Polanco was our professor. He teaches philosophy at the Faculty of Economic Sciences of University Francisco Marroquín. He studied letters and philosophy at University Rafael Landívar and earned his doctorate in philosophy at the University of Navarra. During our first lesson Moris shared with us a little bit about his life and why he studied Greek and Latin. For me it is very important to know about the life of the people with whom I´m going to share these months and learn about their experiences of life. This first class was very interesting and he shared with us many tools to practice Greek and the methodology for the course.
What is enlightenment?
-Mark Twain
-Emmanuel Kant
Fredy Kofman
Fredy Kofman
We watched a video of a conference of Fredy Kofman who talks about life, liberty and conscience, giving us very good examples of a normal life. Watching this video was one of my favorite activities during last week. I loved the content of this amazing conference because Fredy explains values in an easy way to highschoolers.
He talks about responsibility and when someone isn't responsible that person is innocent however is impotent. When someone is part of the problem he or she is also part of the solution. He put an example of a tirany that was the leader of the ships and when we as humans didn't want to be responsible we give a tyrant the opportunity to take decisions of our convenience.
Another important thing that I learned from this conference is that we have to act with integrity in our values and being proud of our decisions to act with our values doesn't matter if the result is positive or not. What gives you happiness is not the results but the values with which you tried to succeed.
I understand of this video that if I as a human want to have liberty I have to assume responsibility for my actions. Most people around the world don’t consider themselves responsible persons, so they prefer to give some part of their liberty to a tyrant that manages their lives. One example of this is the public education or public health.
The big problem of leaving our own responsibility to others, in this case to the state, is that we don´t know how they are going to manage your own money or other resources. It could have a good result, but it may not.