Consilience 11-12

Could one compare Transcendentalism and Empiricism with the MPC?

 Can Transcendentalism, being the rules given by someone greater, from the top down, be compared to those rules that a teacher gives in a classroom? With the students not doubting their origins?

And can Empiricism, being the rules created by humans themselves, from the bottom up, be compared to those rules that a group of students create? Like those at the MPC (rubrics)?

If we have Transcendentalism, no matter the advance on social sciences or science, can there still be consilience  of science and humanities? I do not think so, because Transcendentalism sees everything as having some divine nature, call it god or another deity. It wouldn't leave enough room for the sciences.

Transcendentalists and Empiricists  could have the same god. The only difference is that Transcendentalists believe that our morality and ethics originate from that god, and Empiricists believe that these comes from humans. But this doesn't mean that the Empiricists cant believe in some kind of god. Could this be the difference between believing in a god and having a religion?

Transcendentalism: it works because of the epigenetic rules to follow someone, to have a leader. But then, empiricism also could mean following a leader, just not a supernatural one.

We, all human beings, have a yearning to explain the unknown, mysticism. This could be one of the reasons that we have gods and why we want them to lead us. But then, if this were true, why could we have the capacity to go against the leader?

These pictures are of some of the maps we came up with during the discussion. 

Blind Christmas Drawing

So today was my morning meeting, and instead of watching videos I decided to do something fun that was related to christmas. I did two activities.
The first one was called Blind Christmas Drawing on the instructions were the following:
On the call of GO! everyone must put their book on their head and a blank piece of paper on top of that and draw the following: 4 stockings hanging on a fire place, then candy canes in a basket on the floor, then a christmas tree next to the fire place.
These were the results:

The next game was Christmas Object Drawing. Two people had to sit back to back. One had an object and the other a blank piece of paper. The person with the object had to try to explain what the object was, without naming it, and the other person had to try to draw it. 

These were the results:

                                             

So Far in Programming.....

Don Quijote 2

En el capitulo 6, se ejemplifica como Cervantes se presenta a si mismo. El juicio que emiten sobre los libros que el cura y el barbero consideran valiosos y los cuales no consideran valiosos. Es interesante que los libros que ellos consideran valiosos son los de Cervantes o los de sus amigos. 

La dama era la que iba a iluminar el camino del caballero. Por eso, sin en verdad  conocer a Aldonza, y sin ella fijarse en el, Don Quijote la idealiza y la convierte en Dulcinea. Es inconcebible un Quijote sin una Dulcinea. Todos los dolores, las alegrías y otros sentimientos, el Quijote las remite a Dulcinea. 

¿Para hacer todo lo que hizo el Quijote se necesita estar loco?

"Y así  del poco dormir y del mucho leer, se le seco el cerebro de manera que vino a perder el juicio". "En efecto, rematado ya su juicio, vino a dar en el mas extraño pensamiento que jamas dio loco en el mundo, y fue que le pareció concebible y necesario, así para el aumento de su honra como para el servicio de su república  hacerse caballero andante y irse por todo el mundo con sus armas y caballo a busca de las aventuras..."

¿Es necesario estar loco para tomar una decisión como esta? 

El Quijote nunca dice que fracaso, siempre dice que algo le salio mal, aunque siempre queda golpeado, pero nunca se rinde. 

En que medida es realismo y en que medida es irrealismo?

Don Quijote representa el irrealismo, y Sancho representa el Realismo. ¿Sera que por eso Cervantes los puso juntos?

The English Lesson

Let´s not get discouraged with Words and Rules, or with The Trivium. We are not the only ones.

THE ENGLISH LESSON

We'll begin with box, and the plural is boxes.
But the plural of ox should be oxen, not oxes.
Then one fowl is goose, but two are called geese.
Yet the plural of moose should never be meese.
You may find a lone mouse or a whole lot of mice,
But the plural of house is houses, not hice.
If the plural of man is always called men,
When couldn't the plural of pan be called pen?

The cow in the plural may be cows or kine,
But the plural of vow is vows, not vine.
And I speak of a foot, and you show me your feet,
But I give a boot - would a pair be called beet?

If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth,
Why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth?
If the singular is this and plural is these,
Why shouldn't the plural of kiss be nicknamed kese?

Then one may be that, and three may be those,
Yet the plural of hat would never be hose.
We speak of a brother, and also of brethren,
But though we say mother, we never say methren.

The masculine pronouns are he, his and him,
But imagine the feminine she, shis, and shim!
So our English, I think you will all agree,
Is the trickiest language you ever did see.

I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough?
Others may stumble, but not you
On hiccough, thorough, slough, and through?
Well done! And now you wish, perhaps,
To learn of less familiar traps?
Beware of heard, a dreadful word
That looks like beard and sounds like bird.

And dead; it's said like bed, not bead;
For goodness sake, don't call it deed!
Watch out for meat and great and threat,
(they rhyme with suite and straight and debt).

A moth is not a moth in mother.
Nor both in bother, broth in brother.
And here is not a match for there.
And dear and fear for bear and pear.

And then there's dose and rose and lose --
Just look them up -- and goose and choose.
And cork and work and card and ward,
And font and front and word and sword.

And do and go, then thwart and cart.
Come, come, I've hardly made a start.
A dreadful language? Why, man alive,
I'd learned to talk it when I was five.

And yet to write it, the more I tried,
I hadn't learned it at fifty-five!

By: T.S. Watt

Hope for Humanity

Today was Majo´s morning meeting. This was a very patriotic morning meeting. She showed us some videos of this campaign in Guatemala trying to bring out the best of all of the Guatemalan. This campaign is called Accion MOB. I really found it interesting, because apparently there are a lot of people participating in this campaign and are really taking it seriously. I think Guatemala needs more things like these. But the most striking thing of this morning meeting was the videos that people showed afterwards. Isa showed us a video of a chain of kind actions. This video really moved me, I guess that there is still hope for humanity.  

Self-Reliance 7

Always be yourself and stay true to yourself. The important thing is the consistency about being ourselves. As long as one is being genuine to one self, one can have one opinion today and change it to another the next day. This is what Emerson means when he talks about honor, to be your true self. By doing genuine things, having honor, helps us live life day by day.

“We worship to-day because it is not of today.” We worship someone today because of all of his past actions. But, does Emerson tell us to judge by our past actions or by our present actions? We shouldn’t take the result of the actions; we should take the actions as being consistent with one self.

“Every true man is a cause, a country, an age; requires in finite spaces and number and time to fully accomplish his design.”