Losultimosapuntes

  Consider the fact that. in a few years, I shall be dead. This fact can seem depressing. But the reality is only this. After a certain time, none of the thoughts and experiences that occur will be directly causally related to this brain or be connected in certain ways to these present experiences. That is all this fact involves. And, in that description, my death seems to disappear. Derek Parfit  Derek Parfit was a British philosopher who specialized in personal identity, rationality and ethics. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential moral philosophers of the late 20th century and early 21st century .

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star  Friedrich Nietzche  Those who are devoid of purpose will make the void their purpose  Friedrich Nietzche 

  Events happen as they do People behave as they are Embrace what you actually get Epictetus Difficulties strengthen the mind and labor does to the body Seneca If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave Cato the Elder You have power over your own mind -not outside events Realize this and you will find strength Marcus Aurelius No man is good by chance  Virtue is something which must be learned  Seneca They who fear suffering are already suffering from what they fear  Montaigne Another person can not hurt you without cooperation; you are hurt the moment you believe yourself to be Marcus Aurelius

  Chaos and order are fundamental elements because every lived situation is made of both  Order is not enough. You can't just be stable and secure and unchanging, because there are still vital and important new things to be learned.  Nonetheless, chaos can be too much you can't tolerate being swamped and overwhelmed beyond your capacity to cope while you are learning what you still need to know. Thus, you need to place one foot in what you have mastered and understand and the other in what you are currently exploring and mastering.  You have positioned yourself where the terror of existence is under control and you are secure, but where you are also alert and engaged. That is where there is something new to master and some way that you can be improved,  that is where meaning is to be found.  From 12 rules 

 In studying a philosopher the right attitude is neither reverence nor contempt, but first a kind of hypothetical sympathy, until it is possible to know what it feels like to believe in his theories, and only then a revival of the critical attitude, which should resemble as far as possible, the state of mind of a person abandoning opinions which he has hitherto held. Contempt interferes with the first part of this process and reverence with the second. Two things are to be remembered : that a man with whose opinions and theories are worth studying may be presumed to have some intelligence, but no man is likely to have arrived at complete and final truth on any subject whatever. When an intelligent man expresses a view which seems to us obviously absurd, we should not attempt to prove that it is somehow true, but we should try to understand how it ever came to seem true.  This exercise of historical and psychological imagination at once enlarges the scope of our thinking and he...