As soon as we attach emotions, feelings, thoughts, associations, etc then we change the reality into our perception. ... Are objects or even our thoughts an illusion? ... How do we know the science is true? ... Strangely, if this scientific theory is true we cannot prove it, because we can never perceive anything directly, so we do not know how and from where the experience came into our minds. ... This gives epistemology, the methodical study of what we can know and how we can know it. ...

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Platonic thought has shaped much of the western world. ... This is an illustration of how the soul uses the bodies (Phaedo, p. 37-38). ... Plato thought that we were created in parts- part of us being truth and the rest being nothing. ... In a twinkling of an eye we will be changed. None of us know for sure what we will be changed to, but we can have the confidence that God has prepared a better body for us. ...

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We can see this through the character Hamlet. ... We can tell this by the way his inclination differs all through the play. ... This is the reason soliloquies are so important, on the grounds that a character can express his most inward thoughts without judgment from individual characters in the play. ... Hamlet did not think that his uncle was as a great king as his father. ... When he says, "Now to my word I have sworn it" (Act I, scene 5), he is letting the audience know that he will avenge his father's death, which puts the audience to think, how he will achieve retributio...

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Under the anthropological problem we have the problem of Reality, Nature of Reality, Appearance and Reality, Change and Permanence, Space and Time, Causality, Freedom and Determinism and the Mind-Body problem. ... CARTESIAN DUALISM While the great philosophical distinction between mind and body in western thought can be traced to the Greeks, it is to the seminal work of René Descartes, French mathematician, philosopher, and physiologist, that we owe the first systematic account of the mind/body relationship. ... He (Descartes) thought that if true knowledge is to be attained then we mu...

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We must be at the top of our condition to understand any thing rightly." - Ralph Waldo Emerson A Condensation of Its Context Toward the end of his notebook, "Naturalist," Ralph Waldo Emerson entered sentence (dated 1853) that marks a symbolic vision of nature familiar to his readers and, in more recent years, of concern to his ecologically minded critics: "He is the richest who has most use for nature as raw material of tropes and symbols with which to describe his life." (2) One can see why the tradition of reading Emerson's nature writing and environmental aesthetics in sharp contrast...

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A psychoanalytic treatment demonstrates how these unconscious factors affect current relationships and patterns of behavior, traces them back to their historical origins, shows how they have changed over time and helps the individual to deal better with the reality of adult life. ... But the desire for pleasure never truly disappears, even when it is sublimated into something else. ... Because it contains repressed desires, things that our conscious mind is not supposed to want, and is not even supposed to know about, nobody can get to his or her unconscious just by thinking about it directly....

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This further reflects the narrow mindedness of the men, restricting the woman's freedom from within their minds even. ... She raises the position of women as creatures who can stand the heat! ... Tom thinks that the woman should ask them over. ... Tom thinks that this woman is doing what she is doing to get some attention. ... He thinks that she is a cheap woman, just because she is the way she is. ...

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When we sleep, we do much more than just "rest our weary bones"; we tap into our subconscious mind (Ullman and Zimmerman 1979). ... You must understand that the subconscious can only talk in a language that the conscious can understand, therefore it uses imagery. ... The answer to this question is even more puzzling. ... A newborn child's sleep can consist of as high as 50% REM type sleep (Davidmann, 1998). ... Thoughts are not physical in nature, we can't touch and see them but in order for them to occur the brain must go through chemical and hormonal changes, dreams are the same in...

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