Capitulo 1:"De que va la Etica".

I think most of us had a rude awakening when we read some lines of this chapter.One of them that make me feel close to this lines was:"como no somos libres no podemos tener la culpa de nada de lo que nos ocurra".What Savater try to say to Amador is that some people think that we are not free really, so they are not responsible for their actions.

When we were at school, we started thinking critically, it means that we learnt that there are differents vision of the reallity,differents ideas and that we 've born in a society, so when we grew up our ideas are partly influenced by this society.

Ithink we confused the idea that our teacher want us to learn.For example I had the idea that our thoughts and decisions are totally influenced by the society and our cultural background and therefore I thought no matter what I do , no matter what I feel ,all my actions were a product of my surroundings.

So, the word "FREEDOM" doesn't take place in my life according to this thougth.But fortunately, during this process of learning I 've found the real idea of all what my teacher try to explain to us,as Savater try to explain to Amador.Now I can see that,of course we need to know our cultural background,different ideas,different points of view,but it doesn't mean we need to follow them or copy them.They are very important because they contribute to our decisions, these differents views, ideas help us to construct our own knowledge an dthen we are FREE to choose what way to follow, what kind of decisions we want to take.But instead of thinking about our bad luck,we can decide what can we do to fight against this bad luck! this mean to be FREE.

Etica para Amador.

This book doesn't try to answer some questions that we have in our life and solve everyday problems.What's more,it doesn't try to define ethics and neither pretends to be a book for the study of Ethics.

It is just the subjective point of view of a father that attempt to explain to his son the practical part of ethicsby taking to account their own experiences.

The main goal of this book is try to form "librepensadores."

One part that called my attention was when Savater told Amador,his son that "los chicos debeis tener amigos de vuestra edad! and when adults are too sympathetic is because they want something else.There is some truth in this belief,but in my case I couldn't find any connection between what Savater says and my experience with my best friend, my godmother.I think the only thing she wanted is to be loved.According to this, are everybody's action based on reciprocity? I have to read more to answer this question.