1. Conformity or Individualism
No longer does history give objective information on the essential events of life but instead it provides any person with the opportunity to share his/her ideals and perspectives leaving the truth within a limited view. ... And society is submitted to the various opinions of the dominating minorities that only pretend to give themselves credit by deceiving the masses. ... Windschuttle fairly discovers this and attempts to give the world more conscience by acknowledging the problem and doing something to solve it. ...
She uses the phrase, "It rests on the head" (Line 3) to create an image about the location of our mind being inside our skull and then immediately follows this with the phrase, "like a bird's nest, woven of twigs and tinsels" (Line 4) to give an overall physical description of the mind itself. ... For example, the phrase "blowing into the leaves" (Line 9) is part of sentence that continues in the next line, "of books with moonlit opossums" (Line 10) but by giving a line break between the two parts, she leaves the first phrase open to different int...
Summary of Kant Kant commences his critique with a description of science as a pure path (to truth presumably) and continues that logic has followed that path to completion. He then distinguishes logic as being abstract and reason more realistic. He also seems to be bridging rationalism and empiri...
Art also has meaning to society as a whole; art gives individuals the opportunity to express themselves and provides entertainment and inspiration to people. ... The connection and inspiration art gives to everyone is different and makes that person who they are. However, art also builds society and brings people together through the entertainment art provides, giving the people within the society a common connection to something. ...
David Smith gives many examples of the benefits of the unconscious mind in chapter 4 of Why We Lie. Starting with problem solving, he expresses that our minds can sometimes have issues with trying to find the answer to something and that if we just leave it alone for a little while and give our conscious mind a break, our unconscious will take hold of the problem and solve it for us (81-84). ... Smith gives an example of "confabulation across saccades," which are distorted memories of an image. ...
If the object of love is to have the good forever, the function of love is "giving birth in beauty both in body and in mind." (206b) Diotima begins her explanation of how "all human beings are pregnant in body and in mind" (206c) by discussing the concrete, physical pregnancy of the body. ... This implies the existence of conceptual children as well as physical ones, and Diotima gives an example of the former by noting man's love for honor, his desire that his name ring down through the ages "it is immortality they are in love with." (208c-e) Just as the pregnancy of a man's body i...
It is frequently seen as giving an unthinking perspective of human thought, and has not made sufficient note of feelings and how they interface with mental processes. ... Models such as the information processing approach have been extensively used to explain in detail the mental processing, this has helped to explain various mental processes, unlike other branches of psychology this isn't solely based on several assumptions and observations, also giving this approach an extra advantage. ... This approach of cognition also extensively uses rather scientifically experimental methods, this ...
Because of how we live, true reality is not obvious to most of us. However, we mistake what we see and hear for reality and truth. This is the basic premise for Plato's Allegory of the Cave, in which prisoners sit in a cave, chained down, watching images cast on the wall in front of them. They accep...
Imagination is what gives the mind life, what allows the mind to express itself and escape the dullness that the mind would otherwise be confined to. ... By giving the wind a medium through which it can express itself, Coleridge has made a connection between the mind and the imagination. ... Allowing the imaginative thoughts to flow like wind gives us the possibility to be able to materialize artful and appealing byproducts, the same way a chord has potential to make a note, but when you awaken the potential, it can play more a symphony....
After the explanations of Lyotard's account the question whether it sufficiently explains what art is will be entertained, and it will be shown that his account is both by nature incapable of giving a sufficient explanation, than the idea that perhaps the request of a "sufficient" explanation is out of the question will be entertained. ... That in philosophy one should not meddle with things that one couldn't explain since that would be dangerously close to "poetry", as Carnap puts it, that is something that can give no definitive answers. ... To conclude, I beli...
The ability to be creative dies off in the classroom when the students submit their work for the teacher's scrutiny; thus not allowing the students to discuss and question one another, giving them the opportunity to open their minds and think for themselves rather than being "containers," according to Freire. ... This suggests that the teachers are giving their students a false perception of the world. ... To be human in a learning world, the students must engage but the teachers never give them that opportunity. ...
Our imagination is meant to be a source of inspiration in our actual world, to give us something to aspire to in the tangible world. ... A typical passport gives us the privilege to visit a foreign land, to travel and explore, to discover all the things we could never have believed had we not seen it with our own eyes. ...
Robert brings on this sexual transformation and helps to give her the ability to see a different side of her femininity. ... The ocean lets her make her own choices and brings her in further and further because it gives her freedom and solitude: "The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude- (636). ...
Most investigators agree on the core psychopathological feature of depression: a severe alteration in emotional tone that gives a negative coloring to many aspects of the person's thoughts. ... Of course I would have to read up on some more material to give my complete statement of the article, but for now I"m convinced. ...
The Cartesian mental state is what gives us the power to strip the world of function. ... This gives rise to ethical egoism, where "good"" is just an individual satisfying as many of his or her desires as possible, compatible with some agreement that we will sacrifice some satisfaction for the sake of safety and consideration for other people, as in a social contract with society. ...
However, many things can be the catalyst to the release of endorphins; UV light has been proven to trigger the same reactions as many, "club drugs," in regards to endorphins (The efficacy of light therapy); intense anaerobic exercise, such as heavy weight lifting and sprinting, will release endorphins giving the, "runner's high," dietary triggers are light to moderate consumption of alcohol and the capsaicin in hot peppers. ... Norepinephrine is similar to serotonin in it's sensitivity to feeling of self worth and gives a similar feeling. ... So while the combination ...
"The psychological Laboratory at Leipsic" The article, "The psychological Laboratory at Leipsic", by James McKeen Cattell, describes the laboratory and the processes of experimentation. Psychology is different from other sciences, and philosophy, in that it uses experimentation to try and figure o...
In the passage from the novel Alias Grace by Margret Atwood, the author uses many narrative techniques to convey the feelings and thoughts of the main character Grace Mark. Atwood uses a great mixture of metaphors, similes and motifs to describe what is happening to Grace and her point of view throu...
The pattern of light that is hitting the retina gives us visualization, but the retina alone cannot explain the sensation of smell, touch, taste, and hearing (Kosslyn, 2006). ... The top-down and the bottom-up analysis are complimentary and use local signals to give depth to the area of an image. ... According to McLeod (2007) Gibson attempted to give pilots training in depth perception during the Second World War, and this work led him to the view that our perceptions of surfaces was more important than depth/space perception. ...
This short story Harrison Bergeron is a satire of the USA today. The USA is implementing laws like affirmative action, which they are hoping to erase racism, and essentially, make everyone equal. This is the same for women's rights groups, gay rights groups and all other group that are looking for...
Psyche combines various aspects of initial contradictions and is a special type of causal relationships, managing personal principle that directs human behavior and life-giving family. ... - Asks K.A.Helvetsiy. - Do consider it, as they did ancient and early church fathers, the extremely thin and liberated matter and the electric fire that gives life to us? ...
" The Meditator finds that he cannot clearly differentiate between his dreaming and waking states, which gives him reason to doubt all of his senses, even under optimal conditions. ... This gives him reason to doubt any and all beliefs that he has come to know through his senses. ...
" 'How very little trouble it can give you to understand the motive of other people's actions.' ... Perhaps she tried to prevent the dance by answering Henry that Isabella does not wish to dance, which gives her a moral sense of what is accepted in social relations, and what is not. ...