Marx Blog

1. Marx's Bases of society: It consists of three levels:
- The most basic level is society's conditions of production, which are the natural conditions and resources that are available to society. These are the foundations of any society and determine the type of production in a society.
- The second level is the society's means of production. This consists of the various types of equipment, tool, and machinery, as well as the raw materials to be found in each society.
- The third level is society's production relations. This is mainly those who own the means of production, the division of labor, and the distribution of work and ownership.

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- society's conditions of production:

- society's means of production:

- society's production relations:

3. In picture 1: it can be seen how a river, as a natural resource, passes though all the plantations. it is most likely, that the river is used as a source of watering the plants. Plantations by rivers are always successful.

In picture 2: it can be seen, how the machine is used to cultivate and move the plants. The planting is done on a river, so special equipment is needed to pick-up the plants.

In picture 3: it can clearly be seen that the man standing on the front and it well dressed it the owner of that hacienda, and is looking out at the jobs of the people that is working for him.

4. Marx's Basis of Society can be compared to several areas of knowledge. For example, it can be compared to Ethics. It is important to mention that not every society has the same rules and norms. It might be that in a society, what Marx calls production relations is not of the important basis of a society. Workers are much more important that the group that owns a plantation, for instance, because is their work that helps the production and external relations of it. Another area of knowledge that can be related to Marx's idea is History. Marx's idea was used in history to show how life in society was represented, and which were the basis of it. For example, in Brazil, while the cacao and oil plantations in the slavery period, rivers as a natural resource were highly needed to provide water for the plants. Oil was gotten from palm trees, which most of the time laid in costal areas, which were close to large bodies of water, which not only provided water for them, but also was the cause of the large percentages of precipitation which created longer periods of rain, which leads to a faster production of products.




- http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/dfn/ForestPractices/silv.htm
- http://farmsupplies.in/Rice-transplanter.html
- http://www.netspeed.com.au/rryburn/USA.html

Descartes Blog

1. I agree with Descartes' statement because I believe that we cannot believe something unless we actually see it with our own eyes. If a person just believes it, then there is a big chance that they might be tricked and that it is not true.

2. I can connect this idea with History. In my opinion, most of things that happened in history, especially those that happened LONG ago are hard to believe. Some ideas of how and why they happened might exist, but for some on them, not even photographs are provided. It is hard to believe something that has no proof, especially something that you did not witness with your own eyes.
Also, this philosophy can be connected to Natural Sciences. While doing experiments and research, it is important to always see what is happening by yourself. For example, while testing something, it is important to always see what is happening and what the effects of what you are testing are with your own eyes. In order to do an accurate lab report, accurate and reliable information must be placed, involving you as an individual looking personally at what is happening and recording it, otherwise, the lab is not reliable.

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For example, dinosaurs. There is no video or photograph that dinosaurs existed. Yes there are fossils of their bone structure, but it is impossible to know it they are really in appearance as they are showed in movies and documental. With this video, we can see you there creatures have been computerized and animated so people can have an IDEA of what they might have looked like and how their environment was, but there will never be a way to find out how this creatures looked liked and how they acted. So you cannot really believe something, unless you really see it.



By this we can see the cycle on which a person observes, and what the responses to the stimulus are. This means that it is very important to observe, especially in professional lab activity, for example working on developing a new medicine. It is very important to observe how this is done and what the effects are clearly in order to re do it, or to repair what has been done badly.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixhIeF9_y-g
http://space.mit.edu/~roland/hans/F16_Observation_F.jpg

Aristotle Post

1. Aristotle's idea of the Ethics.

2. I believe that this is something that Aristotle explains to be from a single person, and explains ideas that each individual should have to live a good life according to him. This belief that Aristotle have best compares to the Area of Knowledge of the Human Sciences. Human Science describes an individual and its inner thoughts and ideas, and everything that has to do with the mind, this idea of Ethics that this philosopher explained that there were certain ways for a person to gain happiness, through pleasure, responsibility and through philosophy. This are things that each and every individual perceives differently as they believe is the best for them, by doing different way to accomplish it, and this is why it might relate better to the Human Sciences than to Ethics.

3. This idea can be represented trough the global issue if child prostitution. This children are not only affected physically but most importantly mentally, because all of the unnecessary suffering and images they are perceiving in a young life. This is why this is part of the Human Sciences. Also, Aristotle's ethics come to hand at this point since people according to him, people's ethics where gained through each individuals own capacities and own abilities to become happy, and that there were three ways to achieve this happiness, which are: happiness of pleasure and enjoyment, happiness of a FREE life, and also thinking as a philosopher. This three ideas are completely rejected since the moment that a kid is taken into this horrible business. Their happiness is taken away, and there is no way that they can achieve things though their abilities and capacities since they are tied into a closed world, where nothing seems to be a reality for them. The happiness and removed, and therefore, it is impossible for Aristotle's ideas of Ethics to become a reality and a part of their lives.

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