CURRENT MISSION

Améliorer le Français et apprendre l'Arabe

ABOUT ME

i claim to be a modest and humble person. i don't need much to be happy. i always take things as they come: i don't plan much in advance and let things develope themselfes. altough i like this attitude, because it is more relaxed not to have a big plan that can is andangered by all the unforessen things that always happen, it is pretty disadvantageous, since it comes hand in hand with a lack of discipline. so to say that i think, that i can party this day and will find another to do the stuff for university. but having lingered around a bit and not studied too hard for some semesters, i start getting a certain drive in that respect.

PHILOSOPHY

of course this is a difficult question and everything i write here won't fully satisfy me, but anyways:

right now, i am heavily influenced by richard rorty's "contingency, irony and solidarity", where he claims to show how liberal thought and solidarity can go together. without wanting to give a full abstract of his book i give you two ideas i find the most important. the first is a rather simplified idea of truth: he says, that things in the world are simply there and that htey can't be true or not. only sentences can be true or false. so truth is a attribute of phrases. and phrases only work in a certain language (arguing with "blasphemia" only works in a language where the idea and the word "god" has a central place). and language is made by humans. so truth is also made by humans.
i like that thought since it enables us to accept, that other people might have truthes that we don't without having to judge wether one truth os better or not. of course one can stll say "i don't like the language your speaking respectively the vocabulary you're using (perhaps one of "human ressources", "profit", "competetition" and "self help")and so i think that it is not good to use it." but i can't convincingly say, that "religious people didn't made it into modern times" or "socialism is the pure evil"
i don't know if my point gets clear. if there was an absolute truth out there it would make sense to call my point of view radically relativistic. anyways, if there is no such thing as an absolut truth, we don't have to worry because the language we're speaking only produces "relative" truths, because there is no language that can do more.
so we should staunchly defend the values that we (carefully) judged worth fighting for, without thinking that we have found an "absolute" better truth than those who don't share our values.

this thought serves as foundation for the next thought, that i like so much (perhaps i even like the stuff above especially because it is the basis for the following).
when there is no vocabulary above others, than we don't have to worry, when two vocabularies we find equally persuasive are not compatible. so it enables us to be a liberal (someone whose vocabulary contains words like "privat space", "self creation", "self fullfillment") and a solidary person ("there is no such thing as a private space, because suffering can't be private and affects me although it is 'none of my business' (in liberal words)").

and that is pretty much what i want to be: liberal and solidary.

perhaps that sounds a bit detached and with the head u in the clouds. i'd agree, but for me it is a philosophy about truth and values that i finde very compelling in theory, altough i am still far from speaking always in a way that fully corresponds with the stuff above. so it is somthing like the sophisticated construct i want to implement in my vocabulary/ies and life practice.

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

two years ago, in barcelona, we (a group of three guys with a car, having had a tour along the mediterranean cost) met a young man from paris on a square. after we changed some words, we did so with our numbers and when we passed paris on our way back home we followed hie invitation to spent the night at his place. without really knowing us, he gave us his keys, so that we are flexible. this was my first practicall couchsuring experience (although not organised via this platform here). when he visited berlin this summer and asked people for a place to stay i offered him to come to my place after i came back from a week of holidays with my dad and so he did. although i had plenty to do planning my current stay in morocco, we had some great time together and he told a bit about his vision of hospitality and also about couchsurfing. since he is born in marrakesh, he organised me the couch of a friend here, on which i stay now. coincidentally, people i know from berlin are hosted a few houses beneath that place, so i also benefeitted from the great hospitality of their host.

so my first real couchsurfing experience via this platform is still to be made, but those i had were great.

兴趣

• books
• partying
• business

我游览过的国家

Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Italy, Morocco, Poland, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia, United Kingdom

我居住过的国家

Germany, Morocco

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