If history is cloudy than societies values and beliefs are shaken, this is not say that human life can be told in a simple way because we cannot escape our own complexity but we can escape deceit, structuralism and degenerated cultural determinism. We can escape unconsciousness and be able to look at life humbly looking for truth and objectivity. ...
Dom, the main character of Inception, escapes the futile world of dreams and learns to overcome his guilt. ... In Limbo, when Dom comes to find Fischer, the camera zooms in on Dom's face as he tells his projection of Mal about his guilt for performing inception on her and how he cannot escape it (Nolan 02:02:28). ...
Just when he is about to completely escape from all of his aversions of the earthly world, losing himself in imagination and being catapulted freely into the sky, he is gently brought back down to earth. ... Both Hawthorne and Frost impart the idea upon the reader that our imagination should not replace, but rather enhance our realities, as our dreams are meant to offer a temporary escape from the conventional world. ...
The relationship between Socrates and Martin Luther King The similarities between Martin Luther King and Socrates are so close that it's hard to imagine that either could have come up with their ideas alone. I believe as King quoted Socrates with, " it was necessary to create a tension in the mi...
Culture Shock In the article "Overcoming Culture Shock", Erick Liljenstope comments not only on the concept of "Tico Time" which refers to the way we Costa Ricans relate to time, but also on our perception of space. In the search for a successful encounter with our culture, he recognizes that th...
The course of the history of philosophy shows how the philosophies developed through the years with the paradigm shifts; from the escape of the natural philosophers from the primitive thinking of believing in myths until the rise of existentialism. ...
When the mind and body are at equilibrium with stimulating forces, we are in a relaxed state. Relaxation is comprised of refreshing tranquility, achieved by removing the accumulated tensions of life. Many studies confirm that this balance in life is good for the body as well as the mind. We can achi...
It seems that Jane Eyre has an introverted personality, because she is happiest when alone, "With Bewick on my knee, I was then happy: happy at least in my way." However, if Jane was not surrounded by people who were so cruel to her she might not be happiest alone. It seems that Jane wishes to esca...
During the last meeting of class we were led through a scattered discussion of the various philosophers and philosophies discussed throughout the year. If we are to find a common problem that offers any sort of unity to what we have been studying, it must be that each philosopher wants to discover ...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Eolian Harp" uses the concept of a musical instrument to represent imagery of the creative mind. An Eolian harp, or more commonly Aeolian harp named after the Greek god Aeolus, the god of the wind, is a musical instrument intended to be played by the wind. It is easy t...
When we enter our house after a long day at work or a summer's vacation, we never think twice about how our physical environment plays an extremely significant role in our lives. The size of the house, the colors of the walls, the arrangement of the furniture, and the surrounding neighborhood seem ...
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein explores many aspects of the conscious and unconscious mind. Shelley uses light and dark throughout the novel to symbolize the duality of the mind, a representation of Victor's conscious and unconscious mind. Victor's conscious behavior is clouded by his unconscious rep...
Socrates, in standing by what he believes in instead of looking at the individual matter of the court's ignorance, and playing it safe in order to leave with his head in tact, stands before the angrier high statused people of Athens and proudly stands by his principles, leaving no way of escaping from the matter of death at hand, yet showing the world how dear his values are to him. ...
Psychology, the study of human nature and behavior, has come a long way. In the nineteenth century, much of what was passed for psychological practice was based on guesswork. Contributions by many researchers and thinkers gave birth to the modern science of psychology. The objective of psychology...
Mankind's" history was dominated by violence, whether its political war, domestic violence, social violence or personal violence, violence had abided in our culture visibly and invisibly. In a general accepted point of view, violence and its implements on the body is a cognitive immor...
