Asignaturas del Departamento de Filosofía del IES San Blas: febrero 2015

A man wants to hang a painting. He has nails, but no hammer. His neighbour does have one. Therefore, the man decides to go to him to borrow it. However, at that moment he begins to have doubts. Imagine that the neighbour does not want to lend me his hammer? Yesterday when he greeted me he also was a bit short. Maybe he was in a hurry. Or maybe he just pretended and he really has something against me. What then? I’ve never done anything to him; who does he think he is. If somebody would want to borrow my tools, I would lend them to him right away. Why wouldn’t he? People like that guy make your life miserable. And I’m sure he imagines that I am dependent on him, just because he has a hammer. That does it! The man storms over to the neighbours door, rings the doorbell, but even before he has had a chance of saying “Good morning”, the man yells at him, ‘You can keep your hammer, you jerk!’”