In connection to the third chapter of the book I would like to focus on the issue of orders. According to Savater, orders are one of our motives; that is to say, the reasons we have or believe we have to behave in certain ways. The different motives have different levels of importance, let’s say. Orders very often, take their strength from fear of what could happen to us if we don’t obey someone; and other times from the affect and confidence we have in others. What we can infer from this is that this kind of motive comes from the outside and is that it is imposed to us. What I believe important to point out is that we shouldn’t always do exactly what we are told to because in many occasions we need to reflect on what would be the best choice and find our way out by ourselves even though this implies disobeying someone.
Conformity is not the best option when deciding what to do with our lives.
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I think you´re right as regards orders. I wrote something similar in my fourth post. Would u like to read it?
Miriam
You know what my psycho once told me (she was a great educator for me, though we shared a short time, I still live by many of her words!)? "To do exactly the opposite of what others tell us to do just not to obey their orders is as bad as doing exactly what we are told to do, simply because those have been our orders"... Quite often, I feel many of my learners should give this idea a thought (not that I don't to go over it once and again, mind you! ;-)!)
All the best,
Gladys
Hi Gladys,
jaja yes that idea would be the exact counterpart of doing exactly what others order you to do. Just disobeying for the sake of it is not correct either. What I think is we should reflect on the orders we receive and see if it is ok to follow them or not.
xxx,
Lu
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