Chapter 7

So many thoughts lurk into my mind after this chapter. Phrases sucha as: humanization, human treatment, reinforcement of humanity, giving and receiving... all of them bring a different reflexion to develop. Anyway, in order to organize these thoughts and clarify my ideas in order to make mysel clear enough, the most important comment which is extremelely relevant and why not the key of this controvertial topic which is ¨ethics¨in this chapter and throughout the book as well is : ¨how important it is to be able to place oneself in the other´s shoes.¨ Why? Simply to able to understand one another´s actions better, to reason out different people´s behaviour, to try to be more simphathetic towards those things we have prejudices against and to become more interested in living this good life Savater talks about.

Now, what a task! I guess the first thing we need to make this come true is GOOD WILL and GREAT INTEREST, and these elements do not come through osmosis but working a little on them every single day.

Chapter 6

Two main points called my attention and self reflexion after reading this chapter.

On the one hand, I wondered a lot about this question of ¨moral stupidity¨that Savater talks about. I reflect upon those kids at school who want to be loved, taken care of , and be paid attention to but they do not get these things thoughout their actions. In fact, they do things just to get the opposite: be disliked by others and even become unbearable at times. So, I think, how wise we need to be to read these actions a little further and react in consequence! A really difficult tast a teacher has to be ale to perform when it comes to education these days!

On the other hand, Savater refers to our own freedom as regards feeling ¨remorseful¨andwhen I read this I feel we are going back to the starting point: ¨decision¨, learning how to choose our ¨good life¨, which is not an easy task either, however, it is the way we are supposed to live. I do believe that experiencing different events in life, will give us wisdom to be able to tell whether to choose one thing or otherans even if we choose wrongly, we have to learn something out of that wrong decision. After all, as Borges said: ¨no man has lived in completely favorable times¨.

Chapter 5

I guess Savater wants to make a point in this question of ¨living the good life¨making it clear that material things are just a tiny part of this good life. However, deeper elements, such as moral values, human relations, giving to and receiving from others, respecting our peers are part of the growth of human race and are also things that are part of our way of living, while material things might change our mood, be temporary or permanent but not the most important expectation in life.