In today’s class one thing that caught my attention was when Josh talked about the spear on the end of an arrow. In one aspect, it is moving but on the hand its position is not. How can that be described? Just yesterday I was watching “Important Things with Demetri Martin” on Comedy Central for the first time and his important thing was chairs. He was going on about how we sit for relaxation but also sit to work. How we sit and don’t go anywhere but we also sit to go places, in cars and planes. I feel like that goes along with the “is it moved?” idea. On one side, I feel the object or person would be changed because they are going somewhere different but at the same time, I am still the same person after I get out of a car. I don’t think Demetri had Aristole in mind when he was coming up with his jokes but it boggled my mind when he talked sitting on an airplane and the same thoughts came into my head in class today.
Even though we might not be changed in a way that shows on the outside I do feel that every second we are alive something changes about us. I feel we, as humans, are constantly changing. I don’t know anything that at some point wouldn’t change. Time changes things. I can change the way I think about something, so in my mind I’m adding some sort of change to the object. I have a hard time understanding Aristotle but I’m beginning to notice things in my life that can relate on some level to what I read or we discuss in class.
I have noticed myself thinking about movement in a lot of different ways since it has been a major topic in class. On Tuesday I feel we were mainly talking about physically movement, movement of our body or an object. In my mind I kept thinking about how something could “move” you as a whole. Like reading a certain book or seeing something dramatic happen in life could really move you emotionally or mentally. Throughout this I realized I have used “moved” and “changed” kind of interchangeably, but I do feel that on specific terms they can be.
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I think you have the right ideas about motion and the idea of being moved or changed without going anywhere. I find the concept of motion in regard to change a bit confusing, simply because we are constantly changing on the inside and the outside by forces all around us, whether we can feel them or not. Our physical being is constantly undergoing change, by decaying and healing and renewing itself throughout the day; yet we are unaware of these because they are so small and are part of our functions. We are also changing on the inside, while it seems like we are sitting still on the outside. All of these different types of motions that Artistotle tries to explain do seem to get muddled when we step into these ideas and take a closer look.
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