Como un viejo puede crecer
Los hábitos son capacidades que tiene el alma, capacidades de conocer y de querer. El que tiene más hábitos tiene más capacidad, tiene más alma. Para un hombre, crecer es crecer en virtudes, que son los hábitos buenos.
Archive for month: January, 2013
Animal contra su especie
El hombre es el único animal que puede ir contra su propia especie.
Ejemplos de comportamientos que atentan contra su especie: la guerra a gran escala, la destrucción de su ambiente, el escoger no reproducirse
Man versus Mankind
Man is the only animal we know able to go against its own specie.
Ways the man can go against its own specie: warfare; destroying his environment; choosing not to reproduce
¿Éxito o armonía?
¿Éxito o armonía? La ética es el arte de ser feliz. El fin de la ética clásica es la armonía; el de la ética moderna es el éxito.
Write in pyramid form
Write in pyramid form The best way to write: pyramid: first the final idea you want to convey. Then the 3 or 4 ideas supporting that; and so on.
Without Society, man is animal
Without Society, man is animal Cases of feral children (grown alone in the wild) show that man without society (at least family) remain an animal.
Where is Greece?
Where is Greece? Greece did nothing after 4 century BC. No civilization should be satisfied with its present success.
Now that information is available, teaching has to be redefined
When all information become available (Internet) educators will have to stop passing data and start teaching to think, i.e. to asses information.
IQ measures animal intelligence
Animal intelligence is the ability to process information to extract conclusions. All living things process information about their environment. IQ test measures animal intelligence.
Human intelligence is the ability to connect all the information into a meaninful story