Chapter 9: EleCcIoNeS GeNeRaLeS

In any democratic society, politicians do not get into the government on their own. They need to be elected by others, they need “our help”. But then WE are the ones who judge them later as persons who do not behave “ethically.” So I wonder why did you vote him/her at elections if you consider them not to be a trustworthy person?? Here I totally agree with Savater. I mean we can`t expect others to solve troubles as if they were superheroes!!
As Savater says there are good and bad politicians like in any other field: good and bad teachers, football players, etc. We should not always think that all the politicians are not good persons because they couldn’t or can’t fulfill our wishes that concern public life.

I think that this picture may show us what young people think about politics. They don’t want to feel involved in that kind of matter since they may think that politics is a dirty business or just because they feel that politics isn’t related to their lifes.

Chapter 8: TaNTo GuStO

I asked my mom what she thinks about pleasure, and the first thing she told me is that we tend to connect pleasure with guilt. This is what the majority of people think. We usually forget that we need in some way to satisfy our body, our soul, and our feelings, but we forget about that or we do reject those pleasures because we tend to think that enjoy is something bad, something that we should not fee. But what about when we say that we are enjoying a job, that it is a pleasure to do it, and spend hours working because we are very happy about that? Is this kind of pleasure different from the one that is related to sexual relationships? Why? I just know that in our society those pleasures that are connected to private things are the ones that are punished.
Something that made me reflect very much was the difference between “use and abuse”. Perhaps we consider that pleasure is related to guilt because when we satisfied some need, we tend to want more of that, don’t we? And here appears “abuse”, which can make our life a disaster if we let that pleasure to take control over us.Some religions, such as the Catholic think in the same way. They consider that there is a limit between to live and to have some pleasures and to live in order to have those pleasure: that’s why they talk about Capital Sins when we abuse of those pleasures that make us enjoy life
To me, enjoy some pleasures have nothing wrong, but we have to be very careful about looking for that satisfaction in order to live a good life.

Chapter 7: PoNtE En Su LuGaR

Something very important to name in this chapter is the fact that we should take into consideration others’ point of view when we want to understand their acting. To me that sometimes turns difficult to do because we consider that the way we think is right, and that there is no another one.
Personally I try to do that in order to understand some things but it doesn’t mean that I will do them completely.
We choose to consider somebody else’s point of view which would or not conditionate our actions or we can choose to ignore other’s feelings, thinking. And we come back again to something very crucial in our lives: choosing.

Chapter 6: ApaReCe PePiTo GriLlo

When Savater talks about the different kinds of “imbeciles”, I realize that in my everyday life I happen to act as some of them!!! For example, I am sometimes so scary about the freedom I have that I refuse to make my own choices and decide what route to take; or I just see what is happening and I don’t do anything to change it or to avoid it because the fear do not let me to do so. I know that I can change that if I would like to.
Another thing that I consider important to name is "remorse". It is so powerful that can make a person to feel upset, uncomfortable and unhappy with oneself when one feels that he/she did something wrong. It would be great if many of us had it (especially politicians).

Chapter 5: ¡DesPieRtA, BaBy!

The only thing that I can say is that when we treat others as things, we should put on their shoes and think just for a second if we would like to be treated like that; what they would feel in that situation. We shouldn’t behave towards others in the way we know we wouldn’t like to be treated: the Golden Rule.

Chapter four: DaTe uNa BuENa ViDa

ThIs is another chapter where freedom appears again, it must be very important, isn´t it? I think it is so since we can not escape from this and also because nobody can´t take it away from us. In all the decisions we make, freedom comes to play;

We have to be very careful with this statement "live a good life" since we have to consider that living a good or great or wonderful life is not related particularly to own material things. Why is this idea the first to come to our mind? something that I heard , and that is true, is that we can live in a comfortable way with just the half of the total of goods we have at home.But why don´t we think that to live a good life is very very related to live with company, with other persons who may love us, or hate us or help us, but in some way they make our life to be good. We can live pretty well if we haven´t got internet, t.v., a car, etc., but are we able to spend our days lonely? without anybody to share those things? I don´t think so. What is more, in some way our life depends on others, so we should "give a good life" in order "to receive" a good one.

We should take into account that we are an animal species that need others to live and/or survive.

Chapter three: HaZ Lo Que QuIeRaS

ThE title of this chapter says "do what you please", but this is very difficult to do. Why? just because those actions should be done always taking into account the consequences that they would bring. In some situations, we act according to commandments or customs that are not always the best ones to follow, so in this kind of situations we have to realize that we can choose not to obey or to keep doing what they say.

We have "something" that comes to play here which is "freedom"; we are free when we take a decision (to follow what commandments and/or customs say or not to follow them), and we know that we have to respond for the consequences that they may cause. Savater says that freedom is a concept concerned by ethics, naturally.

Another thing that can be met in this chapter is the fact that there is no "universal rules" to determine that a person is "good". We say that a tool is good when it is useful to do something, but when are we "good" persons? aren´t we "good" when we don´t hurt anybody when we want to achieve something? what about those who help others without any kind of self-benefice? Yes, we are good persons in those situations among others, but the problem is that there are a lot of actions that we perfom which make us be good, so that we can´t make a list saying which are the conditions that people must fill so as to be "good".