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Gwendolyn Brooks Black Man
1,250 words... rity and doubt. She is telling her lover that this is how their love was Surely But I am very off from that. This opening line is very powerful in its meaning. It is as if she was going to write another line about how sure their love is, but then she stops. Their relationship is no longer so sure. In fact, what she is saying in the octave has a very detached meaning. Surely she could go to find him, but she doesnt, surely he stays certain, but is he certain? Is their love still certain? The ...
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Existence Of God Objective Reality
1,015 wordsThe existence of God has been a question since the idea of God was even conceived. Rene Descartes tries to prove God's existence, and to show that there is without a doubt something external to ones own existence. Descartes is looking for a definite certainty, a foundation for which he can base all of his beliefs and know that they are, indeed, true. Descartes' overall project is to find a definite certainty on which he can base all his knowledge and beliefs, including the existence of God. One ...
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1,101 wordsThe Cogito Ergo Sum is the heart of Cartesian philosophy and represents the starting point of his method. It set Descartes apart from the Scholastics who began with real things in a really existing world. He was obviously influenced by the Protestant Reformation and its challenge of authority, tradition and medieval Aristotelianism. Opposing himself to this tradition, Descartes began simply within the certitude of self as a thinking being. Like the pre-Socratics, Descartes was searching for the ...
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Prince Of Cumberland Lady Macbeth
1,484 wordsInnocence is a quality that few people take to their grave, although all are born with it. At some point in one's life, an event or circumstance removes that shield from both moral and legal guilt, whether in one's own eyes or in the eyes of another. In such a case, innocence is cast off, or innocence can be stolen. Both are true of Macbeth in William Shakespeare's tragic work Macbeth. The hero's innocence and name make him vulnerable prey for those who feel completely at home in a subhuman real...
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Crime And Punishment Commit Crimes
1,025 wordsAmerica has to wake up and realize that the current structure of our penal system is failing terribly. Take a group of people, strip them of possessions and privacy, expose them to constant threats of violence, overcrowd their cell-block, deprive them of meaningful work, and the result is an embittered underclass more intent on getting even with society than contributing to it. There is a better way to deal with crime and punishment in America. Americans pay too much money for prisons to fail so...
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Truth Knowledge And Opinion
925 wordsWHAT IS TRUTH, KNOWLEDGE, OPINION AND WHY IS EXTREME SKEPTICISM? What is Truth, Knowledge, Opinion and why Extreme Skepticism is Self Contradictory? Truth is simply the mind corresponding with reality, knowledge is having the truth and knowing that you have it and understanding why it is true, Opinion is having an hypothesis but not being entirely sure that your idea is true and extreme skepticism is self contradictory because skeptics say that there is truth that there is no truth. By doing thi...
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Quantum Mechanics Truth Value
1,498 wordster>Sam Vaknin's Psychology, Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites The debate between realism and anti-realism is, at least, a century old. Does Science describe the real world or are its theories true only within a certain conceptual framework? Is science only instrumental or empirically adequate or is there more to it than that? Jose Ortega y Glasses said (in an unrelated exchange) that all ideas stem from pre-rational beliefs. William James concurr...
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1,463 wordsI. Socrates The most interesting and influential thinker in the fifth century was Socrates, whose dedication to careful reasoning transformed the entire enterprise. Since he sought genuine knowledge rather than mere victory over an opponent, He familiarized himself with the rhetoric and dialectics of the Sophists, the speculations of the Login philosophers, and the general culture of Periclean Athens. Socrates employed the same logical tricks developed by the Sophists to a new purpose, the pursu...
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Piss Christ Paradoxes Of Aesthetics
1,371 words... s that we rightfully hold dear... (51) On the other hand, they cannot deny that the symbolic effect of blasphemy is in fact entirely mediated by the cultural and contextual reception of the offending image, which end up constructing the image in the minds of its readers as either 'work of art', 'act of blasphemy', 'tedious self-indulgence' or any number of interpretations, all finally equally valid in an era of liberal capitalism: This notion of "the image itself" is a major misunderstanding...
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Sun Will Rise Cause And Effect
1,079 wordsThe goal of any philosopher is to find what can only be referred to as truth. Truth is the undeniable, that which can be relied upon in any circumstances, obviously the one thing in life that has real meaning. Unfortunately, truth is quite elusive, as philosophers have been going at the question since Socrates, and no one has produced a definitive answer yet. In the course of my years of reading about the subject, I have accepted only a few concepts as being valid, and I would like to share them...
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Theories Of Synchronic Part 1
1,694 wordsTheories of Synchronic Justification Absolutely everybody wants to know more than he knows. In order to do this he tries to obtain new knowledge from the sources or other people who really have it. Why is it so, why knowledge is so important for us? Lets imagine that we are present in the court where a case is considering. Mrs. Black says that Mr. White stole the money in her flat. The lawyer asks her if she is sure about it and she answered: I know that he stole the money, I saw him take the mo...
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Sources Of Knowledge Source Of Knowledge
1,700 words... nature and scope of justification and knowledge, " Here Audi studies the specific nature of scientific, moral, and religious knowledge. Robert Audi is a representative of fallibility and he argues that some or even all claims to knowledge can be mistaken. Audi defines two different kinds of beliefs: perceptual and inferential. An example of the perceptual is I hear chirping outside the window. An example of an inferential belief is, Birds are outside the window because I hear chirping. These...
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Is Justified True Belief Knowledge Part 1
1,509 wordsIs Justified True Belief Knowledge? What is knowledge? Can we as a whole actually be certain of our knowledge? If so, how? Are we not all based upon illusions and misconceptions, which in actuality create our society today? Knowledge is supported and evidenced by faith or by the 'arrogance of religion'. Faith is supported by psychological beliefs that have little or no proven evidence. By simply believing and having this faith, a person creates a rationale for accepting ideas and happenings. Tru...
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Cogito Ergo Sum Existence
1,477 wordsDescartes Meditations Descartes? ? Cogito Ergo Sum? (I am, I exist) argument is a complex one. In many ways, he constructs a convincing argument for the existence of the self, and for the process of the thinking being, the essence of that self. In this meditation on his philosophy, Descartes on numerous attempts tries to convince both the readers, as well as himself, of his theory that we must reject all of our present ideas and beliefs and start from nothing. He believes that the only thing tha...
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Cogito Ergo Sum Descartes Argument
1,454 wordsDescartes Meditations Descartes Cogito Ergo Sum (I am, I exist) argument is a complex one. In many ways, he constructs a convincing argument for the existence of the self, and for the process of the thinking being, the essence of that self. In this meditation on his philosophy, Descartes on numerous attempts tries to convince both the readers, as well as himself, of his theory that we must reject all of our present ideas and beliefs and start from nothing. He believes that the only thing that ha...
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957 wordsDescartes believed that Descartes Descartes Descartes believed that we should ask what it would mean to know about reality, and to examine what reality meant. He claims that unless we know first whether our belief itself is justified we cant know. To determine whether our beliefs are justified, we have to be able to trace them back to a statement, belief, or proposition that cannot be doubted. Like many other philosophers the only true and believable facts are mathematical. But if achieved, such...
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Half Full One Thing
215 wordsThe mind, which has grasped a right theory of knowledge, and has experienced it, that mind is on the road to certainty the only kind of certainty that is open to the consciousness soul because it has begun to cross the threshold between the objective and subjective worlds. Our perceptions and memory are only reliable to the point of how we judge. We see from our own perception and memory. What the mind perceives is realty. Your life can be greatly affected by the way you think. One thing about p...
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2,162 wordsJohn Stuart Mill was one of the great Utilitarian philosophers of the nineteenth century, along with his father, James Mill and Jeremy Bentham. They set out the original strands of utilitarianism and Mill was able to adapt it and smooth away some of its rough edges, coming as he did after his father and Bentham's major works expounding the new philosophy. Mill was influential both with the governments of the day and beyond, with his profound debates on individuality and liberty still having rele...
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1,230 wordsPlato's Theory of Knowledge is very interesting. He expresses this theory with three approaches: his allegory of The Cave, his metaphor of the Divided Line and his doctrine The Forms. Each theory is interconnected; one could not be without the other. Here we will explore how one relates to the other. In The Cave, Plato describes a vision of shackled prisoners seated in a dark cave facing the wall. Chained also by their necks, the prisoners can only look forward and see only shadows, These shadow...
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Cambridge Cambridge University Fear Of The Unknown
1,365 wordsAs the last of William Shakespeare? s four great tragedies, Macbeth is a play based more on character than deed. Set in feudal Scotland, the play deftly develops each of the main characters, molding their traits and qualities into an intricate masterpiece surrounding Macbeth, the central character. The play is a journey along the life of Macbeth, capturing him at the apex of his career and following him until his just demise. What causes his sudden deterioration? How does this? worthy gentleman?...
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