DIALOG OF PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS EDUCATION – 2 (reflection 5)

In the last meeting of philosophy of mathematics education lecturer, Mr. Marsigit and the students were talking about some student’s questions. Here are some questions-answers of philosophy of mathematics education:

How do we clean the heart of all that mess?

Mr.Marsigit said that to clean our heart of all that mess, we should find a teacher who was able leaded and guide in spiritual matters. In every age, there are people who are able leaded and guide, a sort of scholars.

What’s the relationship between IQ, EQ, and SQ?

Based on experience, spirituality can support intelligence. People who developed his IQ and SQ, EQ is just as implications. His emotions will be maintained. However, sometimes if our IQ, EQ are high, then the SQ is not high, if it is very high on EQ and SQ then his IQ is not high and so on. This is because a person can not possibly have an IQ, EQ and SQ in very high level in the same time. Because if it is like IQ, EQ and SQ like high mountains, so if we managed to climb the mountain, we are also not likely to climb another mountain.

What’s skepticism?

Skepticism is doubtful that exists and may exist. The big noise is Rene Descartes. He made a book about his experiences, which just dream to reality. This makes Rene Descartes became unable to distinguish where reality and dreams. Then he does not believe (skeptic) on everything, including God. Eventually he convinced me was being asked of me. So, the main source of a science is a doubt in our mind.

What limits your mind?

Learning comes from science. Thoughts related to the structures in the brain. Biologically, if the brain is taken, then we can not think. This makes the emergence of the theory of left brain and right brain. In philosophy, there are two kinds of mind, they are experience and logic. Among the experience and logic there is intuition, either space intuition or time intuition.

What is the philosophy?

Philosophy is a reflection process to think. People called philosophical mind when he reflects. The characteristics of reflecting are asking what, who, when, where, why, and how. He is also able to think normative, analytical, and apiori. That’s why animals might not philosophize, because he is only able to think of a synthetic and a posteriori. Similarly, a baby also can’t philosophize. He gained knowledge only of myth.

Love is relative or absolute?

Absolute love is only belongs to God. Your love to another person is still relative.

How to define love?

We can not define love, because love is intuition. Love can only be explained and given examples. Love also only mentioned characteristics. Therefore, we should not ignore intuition, because half of our lives are filled with intuition.

From the dialogues above, I can conclude that there are many things of our life that should be reflected. So, actually we can philosophize about everything in our life because philosophy is a reflective thinking.