Nasro Hassan Reading Response 5 1. According to Singer speciesism is the unjustified attitudes and bias towards the interest of members of one’s species or against those members of another species. Singer believes that the basis of equality is if a being can suffer. If a being can suffer than it should have some moral worth. Therefore animals are beings because they can suffer. 2. According to Kant only rational beings are moral‚ animals are not rational so they have no moral worth. We only have
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Cartesian Skepticism to Existentialism The nature of our reality and existence has been a topic of debate since at least the ancient Greeks. Do we exist? Why do we exist? Does it even matter? These are questions I will attempt to address thoroughly. Answers may not be comfortable or satisfactory‚ but it’s better to rip that band-aid off now than continue blindly in the dark. Rationalism and Empiricism have both attempted to prove existence‚ but at their most extremes they fall apart. Using
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My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.” (Brainy Quote). This idea that he putting forward is that people aren’t actually happy with anything. Life just leads you to a dead end and there isn’t any true satisfaction and gratification before one dies. The reason is because if one lives an aesthetic life‚ they will never obtain all of the material items or money they desire‚ and if they live an ideal ethical life they will compromise some happiness
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INTFILO Rationalist believe in Apriori. Apriori comes before sense experience. EMPIRICISM – Senses (Page 191) 1. JOHN LOCKE – TABULA RASA = BLANK STATE Notebook Mind begins with clear state We use our senses to find out about the world Sense data or qualities World existing outside of us Primary qualities: Scientific characteristics of an object Substrata – what truly exists / reality a. HINDU MYSTIC – praying and sitting on a bed of nails What supports the Earth? A white elephant What supports
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Nietzsche’s ’Thus Spoke Zarathustra’ isbook stylized in a similar fashion to the New Testament‚ separated into four parts that deal with different topics under a general theme‚ Nietzsche’s concept of the eternal recurrence. It deals with a plethora of interesting topics and concepts‚ the most infamous being the ’idea of the eternal recurrence of the same’‚ that ’God is dead’ and man as species must aspire to become the ’Ubermensch’‚ otherwise known as the overman or superman. The overman‚ as described
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that the narrator may not be 100% reliable. When studying the narrator‚ it becomes clear that there is an obvious contrast between our narrator’s personality and the job he has chosen. He mentions reading novels by Camus‚ a French philosopher and the writer of “The Myth of Sisyphus”. He reads French philosophy but has a job that requires absolutely no mental activity. Further more he describes how he listens to Joy Division to “[compensate] for the lack on meaning in the coming shift” (p. 2‚ ll
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device to make certain common fundamental traits that were present in the works of a number of dramatists’. Esslin saw in the works of these playwrights as artistic co-relation to Albert Camus’ philosophy that life is inherently without meaning as is described in his work ‘The Myth of Sisyphus’. In this essay Camus has described the situation of the human beings as one out of harmony with its surroundings. The Theatre of the Absurd‚ today‚ can be considered as a designation for particular
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My Personal Search for a Meaningful Existence I am the representative embodiment of my nihilistic culture. I am narcissistic‚ insatiable‚ petty‚ apathetic and I am above all an emotional invalid. Yet‚ up until very recently‚ I was not consciously aware that I was guilty of having any of these wholly pejorative attributes‚ because I had unconsciously suppressed my inherent will to attain a meaningful existence‚ in favor of the comfort and security that complacency and futility provide. There
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Innocence Lost My Kinsman‚ Major Molineux and Young Goodman Brown present Nathaniel Hawthorne’s belief in the universality of sin. These works provide numerous perspectives into the nature of the human condition and the individual’s role within it. Hawthorne fictionalizes a world where communion with man is essential for spiritual satisfaction. The main characters of these stories face moral dilemmas through their pursuit of human communion. Whether the problems are moral‚ psychological
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Free enterprise is the current system used to deal with businesses in the United States government. It is defined as‚ “an economy that allows private businesses the freedom to organize and operate competitively for a profit without government interference‚ regulation‚ or subsidy” (“Free”) by the Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History. It is an ideology which many government officials agree with‚ especially Republicans. However‚ this system makes it too easy for one company to have a monopoly
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