Knowledge...mind or experience?

Some philosophers believe that knowledge becomes from experience, other from reasoning, etc. Here, you will find some philosophers and their way of thinking, also why do they have that way of thinking.

You or me?, Men or women?, Correct or incorrect?...

Here, we analysed a video that shows a parallel world, where men are harassed by women and if this would be the correct form to stop harassment and discrimination. 

1. If we know that most of people live in a mistake, can we base the society's direction in their desires?

No, because people think that what do they believe, want or desire is correct, but maybe is incorrect for other people; everything is relative, because "every mind is a different world" and everybody will always watch things at their convenience. In the short movie "Majorité Oprimée" we can observe this in some parts, for example, when the girl pees on the street (that reflects what do men do), she thinks is correct, but is not for others. But at the end is hard to define what is correct or incorrect, because everything will influence in these decisions, like religion, moral, education, traditions, culture, etc.

2. Or, should we give power to those who deserve it most?

Nobody deserves more than others, as human beings, everybody should have the same rights and obligations, it's unwise to give more power to someone in some cases, because they will use it to their preference. We can observe in the video that its the same problem if women mistreat men, because it is violence anyway. In the other hand, men and women, disabled and common people, are obviously different, so it could be good if we have equivalent power. 

3. Do individual interests depend on the interest that society believes are most important?

Yes and no, because people will give their own priority to their interests depending on what is better for them, but also sometimes people take more care about something when they watch that most of people do the same. In the video, we watched that the police officer thinks is important to have witnesses in a crime, but the man thinks that is enough with the proves he has. The society influence a lot in a person's life, but depending on the person's ideology, he could accept and follow or not people's opinion. 

4. Can we say that the state regulates the form in which we all live?

Yes, they make rules following what do most of citizens believes is correct, that's why there's always unhappy people; they analyse what do population thinks and what is the percentage of every different way of thinking so, they can regulate what do people do. In the video, we watch an example when a woman appeared without a t-shirt, and we could say that what she did is incorrect, because civility rules says that you must wear clothes in the street.

5. How can we stop opposing the fact that each person has the freedom to choose what they do and that society has a legitimate interest in regulating the actions of each one?

It's true that everyone is free to do what do they want, but also is important to know that is not fair to affect someone else doing what we want to, so I think it's good to apply what does Benito Juarez said: "Among individuals, as among nations, respect for others rights, is peace.", and this is what society tries to do, they try to regulate our actions to, if not affect others, affect them as little as possible. When the girls started to say bad stuff to the guy in the video, that is incorrect, even if they are applying their rights (free speech), because they are attacking him in a psychological way.

6. Are there alternative conceptions to how we should live? Are they effective?

Letting people do what they want, but this could be a big problem because people will affect others, and this is incorrect. Also dividing and separating people by their way of thinking, but a person will never agree with another one at all, so there will be always disagreements and discussions. Maybe letting the power to the people that doesn't have it right now, but it will be the same. In the video, there is shown a parallel way of life, in which women have the power that men have now, but we could see that is the same problem reversed.

Here is the link of the short film:
https://youtu.be/kpfaza-Mw4I

The Allegory of the cave

The objective of this activity is to portray the Allegory's teachings, of Plato's "Allegory of the Cave", in a graphical way, we tried to explain them with photos.

We must analyse if what another person believes is correct, because sometimes, they could be wrong.

Also, we need to recognize that not everything that someone says is the truth, it's only an opinion.

We should reflect if what we get at first sight is the reality, because it could be just an appearance that conceals what is really happening.

In the same way, question our basic assumptions, maybe something has more than a conclusion, answer, usage, etc.

Finally, if we have knowledge about something, it's good to help someone to get out of their "ignorance".