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domingo, 9 de mayo de 2010

what is better, Socialism or capitalism?



The capilaism and socialism are two political-economics trends. Socialism focuses on a totally equal society, where everybody are equal, everybody have the same things, no one has more or less than others, Capitalism on the other hand focuses on the produccion of capital or money, in creating wealth and in the private property. but which is better? I really think that the two are good, but the two also have their negative part, starting with socialism, I think that the socialism is good, people are the ones who corrupt, people are greedy, bad, evil, envidious, they look for the weak point of others to take advantage of them. for example: a society that are a little poor, they live in socialism, but some people need more power, more money (because the greedy), and they begin to steal, in that moment the equal lost, and the socialism stop working, and the society can't be better, because takes two steps forward and back one (As Natalia says). The Capitalism is good, the state is the one who have to be better, the state must ensure that all people have access to education, healt, work, bassic needs, etc. If the state does not ensure that the people will be sick, illiterate, and they must not perfomr work, and thus not earn money. but I think that Capitalism is better because you have the freedom to choose if you want to work and earn money or just be a bumm. And in the Socialism you can be a doctor or a bricklayer, but both will earn about the same amount of money, because everybody have the same things that others.

I leave you with this video, is about Milton Friedman, winner of the Nobel Prize of Economics, with his theory of freedom of choice.



miƩrcoles, 16 de diciembre de 2009

Socrates.


Socrates was a philosoper (maybe the best) born in Athens in 450.
Socrates has iner beauty, which means he was ugly but his mind was amazing because he never wrote anything, he used dialogs, and he create the art of discourse, that's why we say thay he was the master of argumentation (it is very important in the philosophy).
Socrates says that the man is not nature, we learn in the city not in the nature, because if we learn in the nature we are animals, and the animals do not use the reason, and the reason is the capacity to think.
Socrates else raises that we can find happynes only doing good things, but the cuestion is: ¿What is it doing good things? or ¿What is the good?
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Another cuestion ( I thing that is the most important cuestion in his life) which raises socrates is: ¿The essence of the good is in the society or in the reason?
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Socrates determined that is in the reason because the divine voice is the voice of the reason.
but the problem was that when Socrates say: the divine voice is the voice of reason; the people harassment he by inserting new gods.
Finally, sentenced to dead, the poor Socrates drank cicuta and died poisoned (this is a very very painful death, believe me...)