lunes, 3 de enero de 2011

DH whisky in more minutes for all publics

Did you say doucement? D'accord, one more


6 comentarios:

  1. Así que esta es tu estrategia para aumentar la audiencia de tu blog.. Hemos sido víctimas de tu engaño, como pescados que caen en la trampa y muerden la carnada. Pero bien hecho, ha funcionado. Interesante video por cierto. Saludos

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  2. by the way... el otro, "trhee minute philosophy" ce n'est pas mal non plus.

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  3. He's born in 1711, here in Edinburgh. He spends most of his boyhood, south of here, in the belchair hills in the family farmhouse.
    His father dies very young, he's a middleson and has to find a profesion, so he's back in Edinburgh at the righthold age of 13 at the university studying Lore. The problem is, as he puts it himself, right here: He has an insurmontable adversion to EVERYTHING, but the pursuit of Philosophy in genral, learning, in other words; He liked to read books, so home he goes, locks himself in his bedroom and just sits there, reading books.

    And not just the old book, the lot. He read the whole of western Philosophy as it was then understood. Lots of clever talk of logic and reason, but its a bit bloodless. There's nothing about everyday life, not any experiences of looking and feeling and smelling and...So Hume to get a true understanding of knowledge, he decides to prompt man right at the middle at the study of knowledge. Put man in the middle, that's the thing.

    But how is best to conduct that proper of study? Instead of looking to old books or scripture, Hume was determined to apply the experimental method, of Isaac Newton, that Newton uses it on optics and natural sciences, but hume determins to use it for mankind.
    From the age of 18 he's using himself as a kind of perpetual experiment, analysing his own reactions and the emotions, doing things like: Starving himself for food to try to gage the effect of appetite on the brain. The first question he really wants to answer is: Where do we get knowledge from?

    Not from some hidden library inside ourselves, but Hume thinks from outside, wich means our senses: Sight, touch, smell and sound. Only after that, does the mind organize and file and connect information. To watch the process, Hume has to watch himself watching, he has to listen to himself listening. Its not such a complicated idea to explain, let's try again.

    So, standing here I can see: Edinburgh castle, and over here is some; drials. This are what Hume calls "Impressions", all the sights, all the sounds, all the smells pouring into out minds. But what happens to them next? Follow me inside.

    And so, like one of the numbskulls, here we are inside the brain, wich Hume said was empty remember? except for all the impressions that we'd drunk in from the outside world.

    If we use the inside of the camera obscure right here, as a kind of metaphore for the mind, it's easy to understand what Hume was talking about.
    Now, outside there are impressions, and inside, here they are again. There's some drials, and over here: The castle and if I mitt them together, combine them together. I can create more complicated ideas, there are ideas in this case of: Edinburgh, or the idea of possibly of a morning in Edinburgh or the memory of having lunch with somebody in the morning in Edinburgh.
    More complicated ideas, but based on those simple impressions, wich constantly, bombard my mind and mitting together of the simple ideas or more complicated ones is what we call: Knowledge or though, all based on those impressions.

    So far so good, but, can I trust the impressions, and therefore the ideas on wich I based everything?

    No, you cant!

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  4. Bueno, aqui se lo dejo en ingles, no me gusto NADA mi traduccion y la verdad creo que seria lo mejor ponerlo en ingles que poner una traduccion mala.

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  5. Gran trabajo, Señor Roque. Espero que le haya servido para conocer y comprender un poco más a David Hume. De todas maneras, el vídeo que me gustaría que tradujeras (o transcribieras al inglés) es el que pone "Three minutes philosophy", con los dibujos animados de Hume, justo debajo de este, en el blog. Ofrezco otro punto más si te animas. De todas maneras, Thanks.

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