lunes, 2 de junio de 2008
Chapter 8 Tanto Gusto
Fernando Savater wrote: "Como a mi juicio el puritanismo es la actitud mas opuesta que puede darse a la etica, no me oiras ni una palabra contra el placer ni por supuesto intentare de ningun modo que te averguences, aunque sea poquito, por el apetito de disfrutar lo mas posible con cuerpo y alma...." "si tardas mucho en pasarlo bien, terminas por pasar de pasarlo bien..." and I really agree with him, I also consider that it is closely related with the question of Enjoy the life, as he has been showing us in the previuos chapters. In addition to that he wrote "La etica consiste en apostar a favor de que la vida vale la pena, ya que hasta las penas de la vida valen la pena..." in this case he played with similar words which I think are true,I can add that we always learn something even from the wrong or incorrect things in life.Because life is a continuous process of learning!
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Do you think the media contribute to our youth knowing that "hasta las penas de la vida valen la pena", Romina? As a teacher, have you ever found yourself having to deal with pain?
If you're interested in the issue, here you'll find worth-reading articles about the question of pain and school.
Big hug,
Gladys
Hi Romi,
Life is life! And is worth to live your life, and not just to be there watching the life passing by.
I like your post!
Pame
Hi Gladys,
I'm not sure if the TV or the media shows that of "las penas de la vida valen la pena"...But what about 'Chiquititas' 'The family in the Prairie''Party of five' and many others... They are all tragedies and they are always happy, successful, etc.
We tend to promote easy life and easy way everywhere... because we're like this (I mean a large part of the community).
But I think, as teachers we can still give our grain of sand...
Pame
Hi Gladys: As Pame said we find almost everywhere the opposite message that Savater explained.
Teachers many times have to deal with student's pains, I remember that some weeks ago one of my students started to cry because of a family problem and I try to help her as much as I could, listening to her and telling her that it would be solved soon!
Thanks!
Morning, ladies!
I'm not quite familiar with all the examples Pame has mentioned, but I do think "The house on the prairie" showed quite a different approach to pain in life (it was ever-present, but faced with optimism) from, say "Chiquititas" (where pain was either denied or got over through magic, always emptied of its educational value). Can you see my point?
One last thing: as a rule of thumb, I'm always mistrustful of generalizations (such as "we're like that")... though, I know, that's a generalization in itself! To me, the questions that matter would be: "Am I like that? Do I want to be?".
Fondly,
Gladys
PS: Romina has made a point of how school can deal with pain... Did you know traditional education would rather leave pain out of school than discuss it?
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