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The history of philosophy is necessary
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as a theoretical basis from which one
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can reflect on everyday topics
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with concrete elements of judgment.
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However, there is a big difference
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between the formal and historical teaching of
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philosophy and the generation of
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philosophical reflection. In other words,
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teaching history is one thing, and doing
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philosophy is another. [music]
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To do philosophy, one must consider
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strengthening the disposition or
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desire to know, the capacity for wonder.
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If we understand that the capacity for
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wonder is an innate predisposition of
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human beings towards knowledge, something
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like Cartesian inatism, and that
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society, mainly the school, is
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destroying this capacity and
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progressively replacing it with
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concrete data, we can propose a
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philosophical education where
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reasoned discussion and the
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construction of thoughts are privileged.
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The new generations are blamed for the
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lack of interest in all the topics that
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adults believe are important.
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However, we see how the system
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privileges stupidity and promotes it
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through television, radio, the
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press, the internet, especially the
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latter, as Professor Santiago
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Bordamalo says in his classes, that ocean of
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information with a depth of 1 centimeter
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that gives us the feeling of
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knowing things while we are only
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informed. And that's saying a lot if
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we trust the information we
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The truth is that young people are
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bombarded day and night with terabytes of
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misinformation and depersonalization.
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Sábato in the resistance expresses his
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concern about this process of
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depersonalization, alienation,
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tantalization. In short,
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stupefaction, if you'll allow me to use
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On the one hand, we have been sold the idea of
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progress as a necessary end in
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existence and the possibility of perceiving
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that feeling of progress from
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things that are bought even
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online. They have created in us the need
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to progress and they sell us the objects
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through which we feel we are
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On the other hand, a reality mentality is being promoted
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every event, however insignificant,
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deserves to be shared on
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social media walls. [music] This
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reminds me of the enormous effort with which
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clay tablets were engraved on
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volumes, scrolls, papyrus, and
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stone. That meant that not just any
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nonsense deserved to be published, as the
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idea was to immortalize important experiences and
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reflections. Think before you
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speak, as the grandparents would say.
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Thus we find another terrible symptom
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of the lamentable state of health of
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Hobbs would put it. Immediacy and
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everyday expressions. We suffer from a marked
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confirmation bias. We prioritize
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information that reinforces our position on
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all issues and do not
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allow ourselves to acknowledge the possibility of
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finding the truth. in
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someone else's ideas. We believe we are right and we do
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n't listen to anyone who gives us the
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initial impression of thinking differently.
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But we do not simply remain with an
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attitude of rejection and indifference towards
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those who think differently, but we
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attack them with the sole purpose of
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The truth is that this
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societal project that Jaime Garsón spoke of,
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in this savage state, in
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constant war of all against all, from which
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Hobbes flees, it is necessary to reach
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consensus, to build dialogues that
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lead us to understand that each citizen is an
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social conglomerate. We are not necessarily cogs
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in a social machine, but we are
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social beings by nature, which
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leads us to think about how we can
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practice philosophy in the
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Hellenistic style, a concrete and
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applicable philosophy to try to answer a
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question that is still relevant. How to live
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better? How to live better?
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is not the fault of young people that we are
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witnessing an era where
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stupidity surrounds and consumes us, but it is from
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resistance can be made against this
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socio-historical phenomenon.
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Reflection, then, is not only
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necessary, but urgent. not
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a reflection in the manner of the
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intellectuals of the wasteland, as
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Professor Jorge Ordóñez would say, who only
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seek to appear in the
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provincial showbiz, nor from conferences
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given by doctors, who know everything,
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but that is the only thing they know according to Ócar
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Way, but a reflection close to
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the reality in which we
