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Creativity, ideas that change societies, philosophy and the implication in human life, education, ethics and how can it be applied in decision making, economy, wealth distribution, etc.

An idea worth spreading

"Si la filosofía no se mezcla con el mundo, y confunde un poco a los hombres, de nada sirve hacerlos pensar, nada se conseguirá"

“If philosophy do not mix with the world, and make a little confuse in man, is not worth to make them think, it will be useless”.

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Ethics, leadership, education, politics.

My TED Story

One of the organizers and speakers of TEDxTijuana

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• A reply on Conversation: Is it important to teach ethics in graduate school?

  Apr 19 2012: Tank's Laura for your comment. I agree, the way we approach to ethical dilemmas changes in time.

• A reply on Conversation: Is it important to teach ethics in graduate school?

  Apr 11 2012: Gracias Jaime por tu respuesta.
  Coincido contigo respecto al descubrimiento de la ética a partir de experiencias cotidianas. Y me gusta buscar esos reflejos de la Verdad, Bondad, Belleza y Justicia en las realidades humanas. De ahí mi interés en reflexionar sobre el tema. La ética para mi, es lo que mencionas, un ejercicio permanente, que va forjando precisamente un estilo de vida.
  Nuestro reto como educadores, es lograr inspirar a que se quiera vivir esta experiencia de verlo como ejercicio y estilo de vida más que cúmulo de conocimientos.
  Gracias de nuevo.

• A reply on Conversation: Is it important to teach ethics in graduate school?

  Apr 10 2012: Tank's Edward for your comment.
  What if not? What is your personal opinion?

• A reply on Conversation: Is it important to teach ethics in graduate school?

  Apr 10 2012: Tank's Natasha for your comment. One question, when you finish your ethics class, nothing change? Do you have new way or elements to analyse problems? Or the class did not give you something useful?

• A reply on Conversation: Is it important to teach ethics in graduate school?

  Apr 10 2012: Thank's Obey for your comment.
  What is your basic framework?

• A reply on Conversation: Is it important to teach ethics in graduate school?

  Apr 7 2012: Tank's RH and Mark Kurtz for your comment's.
  I agree that one of the challenges that ethic professors have, is to make the use of ethics arguments useful in day to day decision making, as relevant as a cost analysis. Incentives and long term vision to promote these references that can and will make a better society.

• A reply on Conversation: Is it important to teach ethics in graduate school?

  Apr 7 2012: Tank's Fritzie Reisner for your comment. Your comment about graduate level is, that the ethics subject must be part of every course? or your comment point the importance of applied ethics?

• A reply on Conversation: Is it important to teach ethics in graduate school?

  Apr 7 2012: Tank's Gabo Moreno for your comment, I agree that sermon-like lectures don't work. Real life examples is one of the best ways to create a good environment to teach ethics.

• A comment on Conversation: What does it mean to be "smart"?

  Jul 15 2011: Does smart implied intellectual?
  People can be smart, not necessarily develop a intellectual attitude.
  Maybe it can be the capacity to question the things he or she experience in daily life circumstances, and from that questioning, develop a better way to resolve and create solutions to improve life.
  Best.
  Heberto Peterson

• A comment on Conversation: What is time?

  Jul 8 2011: I think that time is an experience of possibility. Because the immediate succession of immediate moments is like some "space" to do things. Time is a measure as you point, in music is very clear, without time it would be difficult to manege music composition, and in other hand, you play with time to create!!! That´s great!!
  In daily life, time is the only way we can organize ourselves. And if some one say that time is not a real thing, I can agree that is difficult to see it, but all of us feel it, and in a way, see it in the degradation of things, and in age, etc.
  
  That way I like to propose that time is an experience of possibility.
  
  Great question.