How far is it possible to reconstruct the thought of the historical Socrates? ... Therefore how is it that he has come to be so widely known even today? It is only through the works of others that we can hope to learn more about Socrates, and it is through the work of others that we must try to reconstruct the thought of Socrates as far as possible. ... Aristophanes gives examples of some of the ludicrous things that the sophists, including Socrates, think about (although whether what he says is true or not is another matter), such as trying to work out how many of it's own feet a...

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I have just finished reading the article "How to steal $65 Billion" and am amazed still how easy it is to have your personal information stolen, I knew that you have to be careful but I thought technology was strong enough these days that you didn't have to worry as much about security but I was wrong. ... As I was reading the article I was relating it to myself and how I can decrease my chances of this happening to me. It changed the way I think of some of my personal habits about mail and personal paperwork. I have a paper shredder and after I read this article, it made me realize how i...

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The Place Where Changed My Life What forms the people we will become? I think that one of the significant elements is the places where we have lived or visited. ... I discovered who I am, and how I think of myself there. ... We could climb the trees like monkeys, and even jump from tree to tree at some spots. ... At that time, I thought how lucky he is because my parents would not allow me to climb trees when I was a little girl. ...

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We are responsible only for how we choose to respond. ... Self-discipline and motivation can effect permanent change in your self-image and your capacity for joy. ... Imagine its color and texture and even its scent. ... We must learn how to incorporate personal satisfaction in to our life. ... Scientific studies have shown that physical exercise can actually block out mental and emotional thoughts. ...

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Success is a number of things resulting in the various levels of adventures on which we embark, but can be bring it to life. Sure, we can, we could turn a person, place, thing, or idea into something that is a living thing that is part of the success we achieved. ... What we do with that research determines how we choose to bring it to life. Learning the background on the topic and how it may affect you and/or a situation can make it a living indication of what is to come. ... It is one thing to think of something and daydream of all the ways it can greatly influence your life, but it is truly...

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Right now we can see how even though Rodia is a murderer, within the no feelings of kindness. ... The bars are very popular places in this novel, with this we can see how alcohol is seeking refuge all the characters of Crime and Punishment. ... We think there is nothing that can save and yet we see as one of the workers comes and pleads guilty of the murder of the old. ... Again we can see how important it is to Rodia Sonia. ... Raskolnikov how to see and feel things can be so different in two points of the novel we might believe they are two different people that are being described. ...

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Johnny never even thought about killing that Soc, but the Soc had thought about killing Johnny, because he had jumped Johnny before. ... That was the only time I can think of that I saw him without that defeated, suspicous look in his eyes." (page 92) we can see Johnny overcoming all of these obstacles to save all of these children less than half his age that are burning alive at the fault of him and Pony. ... All of these restrictions are put upon teens under the age of eighteen, but they can still be executed or put into federal prison without so much as a second thought. ... After the Soc ...

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No good thought can produce bad things and no evil thought can produce good things. ... Even acts classified as spontaneous have to have had a thought to begin them. ... We can think of our minds like that of a garden. ... We are placed in these circumstances to learn how to deal with them. ... When something unfortunate happens to the ones we love, we can choose how this will affect our lives. ...

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This book has taught me that the thought process before the action can and will truly change the reaction. Furthermore, I've learned that the way that we think can affect us not only on the outside but the inside as well. ... By digging deep into to our inner selves we realize that our thoughts and actions pave the way for how our lives and life experiences will be. ... I can argue that the author is correct in saying "Change of diet will not help a man who will not change his thoughts.... My take on Chapter Four is how we apply the thoughts we've planted into our minds and thei...

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Although, we believe in whatever is visible to us and what we can sense, we cannot rely on our senses either because, they are imperfect and are based on how we as an individual's see things not how they truly are. ... They can only see the light of the fire behind them and the shadows of people passing by the fire and they think this is the reality, or this is how the world is, (Plato 211). ... We are chained by our thoughts and we only see what we want to see regardless of knowing about the truth, we are not even trying to look at thing from another perspective. ... Reality is not what ...

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It would be hard to even think about what a healthy personality is like. ... Ellis says that what we think is directly correlated to what we feel. ... They all have to do with how we perceive ourselves and how we feel about ourselves. ... This is all the traits we think we should be full of. ... If we think we are not up to par with ourselves it can lower self esteem. ...

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This is how be comes up with the idea that we do not have thoughts for ourselves and that anything that we believe or perceive to be "real" is actually a dream implanted in our heads by an evil-demon. ... Everything we think is a sense experience by our bodies is only a predetermined thought implanted by an evil demon that controls your mind. ... The wax changes shape, color, smell, sound, but yet we still identify it as wax. How can this be? ... In other words how can something be assumed a forgery when there is no original to start off with? ...

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He uses to the phrase, "intellectual technologies," a term coined by sociologist Daniel Bell, to explain how certain pieces of technology can affect the way the mind works. ... Carr cleverly says that we used to think of our brains as, "working like clockwork," and now we think of our brains as, "working like computers." Through this witty analogy we can relate to how people think in these terms. ... Carr isn't organizing an anti-internet movement, nor does he even state whether the changes are good or bad. He just wants us to think about it, and reflect on t...

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Today we have a unique opportunity to have a conversation with the founder of the psychoanalytic thought, the most frequently cited psychologist of the 20th century, and one of the great geniuses in human history whose name stands in a raw with those of Darwin and Einstein - Sigmund Freud. ... Today we can look at them from the perspective of the decades passed and evaluate Freud's ideas after they have been tested by time, the harshest judge of all. ... There is a saying that " what we see in others reflects how we see ourselves". ... The magnitude of brutality involved in these...

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The word change can encompass many different ideals and notions. Change can simply be defined as a transformation. However what becomes an interesting matter of discussion is how a change can come about. ... Nick is just an example of how language can summons change. ... Nick was able to go beyond himself and make realizations he never even thought of. ...

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This information made me think about my own perceptions of situations and why I think the way that I do. ... Nowadays I think of school as still somewhat boring, but I have learned to appreciate and apply what I learn so I can become successful in life. ... Even though I still have stereotypes of certain people, they have changed over time as well. I always thought of football players as being big dumb jocks because that is how they were shown in the television shows and cartoons I watched. ... Focusing on improving perception is a great thing that people do, but can be difficult. ...

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I was recently faced with answering the question of whether or not I thought this tragedy would permanently change our outlook on the world. ... As you think back to the events of Pearl Harbor, the various wars, and more recently the Oklahoma City bombing, it seems we have gotten through them all and life went on. ... However, I can see how it would impact the way that people may think for awhile. ... There is even a teddy bear drive going on in our town to go to the victims. ... I now believe it will, and already has, influenced our outlook greatly and changed the way we look at and p...

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I thought that in general the movie was awesome and it was a great movie to watch in class. ... People can be very ignorant and naive when talking about mental illnesses. Some people even think it is cool to make fun of people that are suffering from mental illnesses. ... I thought Russell Crowe did an amazing job as John Nash and really helped us to see how his life was. The movie has totally changed my views on schizophrenia and mental illnesses in general. ...

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How can that change though? The only way it can change is if an individual wants it to change. ... I couldn't think of something that would make me act obnoxiously, but instead I thought about how someone I hated would act, and I became him. ... We always feel as though people should like us, and so we act how we think others want us to act. ... Feelings can be changed, but doing so unnaturally is lying. ...

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His thoughts changed from being alone for bliss, and discovering he needed others to achieve that bliss. ... From these two stories readers can take away the importance of change and its effects. ... American education is seeing what they think we need versus what we actually need. ... People learn messages that can apply to their daily lives. ... People learn how others see the world. ...

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He watches her, follows her, thinks about her, and even proceeds to buy her a gift. ... For example, Joyce shows the reader just how preoccupied the mind of the narrator is- "I could not call my wandering thoughts together. ... His thoughts force him to lose interest and sort of manipulate his behavior. ... How can the narrator even begin to realize his folly if he does not see it? ... We must not be blind to these kinds of things. ...

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Sometimes the fastest way to attain the feeling of self-fulfillment is by simply changing how we think. Changing how we think and our perspectives on life makes it much easier to become fulfilled. ... Paul definitely changed how he thought the most but, Brutus, Dean, and Harry, the other three guards on The Green Mile were also changed. ... Where John cures his wife of her cancer, which really changed how Hal thought. ... Thinking in a different way can definitely change how we view things. ...

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One reason is that Descartes believes in the mind and how it can think and obtain knowledge by us thinking. ... After Descartes determines that he does exist, he ponders the question about how he thinks. ... Descartes would inquire that even though the mind is separate from the body according to him, the mind still functions due to the fact that we exist and we have the knowledge that we can think and do other things at the same time. ... Secondly, Descartes has successfully proven that he exists thus proving that God exists and gives us thoughts inside our heads, but with sense perception we ...

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Epistemology is the subfield of philosophy concerned with the concept of knowledge, how we learn, and what we have the ability to learn. ... Meaning we have ideas before we are even born and that when we are born, we are born with the intention of acquiring truth and knowledge. ... He then comes to realize he can not only think; but he can comprehend, wish, imagine, and sense.Descartes' conclusion that our intellect and thoughts are our source of knowledge opposed to our senses and imagination can be explained through his experience with wax. ... He knows that it is the same piece of wax...

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You no longer know any limitations and you can think faster than the speed of light. ... Based on the statements these thinkers, we can determine, or theorize using free thought, that man must have faith in reason in order to control their own fate, or, in Kant's legalistic language, participate in self-government. ... Blind obedience is problem we face even today. ... However, this brings another argument to light: How can you acknowledge an unexplainable passion in the enlightenment realm of thought? ... Enlightenment thinking has changed the world. ...

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