Aleshia Ledbetter WR 121‚ 9:30am April 7‚ 2011 Summary of “Protecting Freedom of Expression on the Campus” In “Protecting Freedom of Expression on the Campus”‚ the author‚ Derek Bok shows how expressing yourself falls under the First Amendment‚ whether it is on a private college campus or public college campus. He further explains that just because it is protected by law does not mean that it is “right‚ proper‚ or civil. Bok goes on to show how censoring freedom of speech would cause people
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The Declaration of Arbroath‚ possibly one of the most famous historical documents of its time‚ written in the name of the whole of The Community of the Realm of Scotland and fundamental to the unfolding of events in its aftermath. It was a famously eloquent political document in the form of a letter to Pope John XXII in April‚ 1320. It written by the Barons and The Peoples of Scotland asking him to recognise Scotland’s historical claim of independence‚ a plea for acknowledgement of right of the people
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The English language is nobody’s special property‚ it is the property of the imagination‚ it is the property of the language itself. For poet Derek Walcott the beauty of the English language lies in every single word he weaves together. His poems “a lesson for this Sunday” and “conqueror” both explore the resurrecting of a culture and combating the preconceptions in it. The detrimental damage on the colonised is often a turning point of change and the creation of a hybrid identity. This new culture
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Derek Walcott Essay I agree with the fact that Walcott uses poetry to explore themes of ethnicity‚ cultural chauvinism and political inequality. However‚ these aren’t the only themes we find in his poetry. He also makes use of themes such as life and death and religion. Sea Canes is one of the poems which includes the themes mentioned above. In Sea Canes the poet is found observing a landscape in which he can see sea canes and animals‚ all of this in a miserable atmosphere; “Half of my friends
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Bundle Theory Derek Parfit’s views on personal identity and the Ego and Bundle Theory are all summarized in his article “Divided Minds and the Nature of Persons”. In his article‚ Parfit explains the distinction between Ego theory and Bundle theory and provides several arguments against Ego Theory. Although it proves to be very difficult to believe the Bundle Theory‚ Parfit’s critique is convincing and well thought out. In order to defend the Bundle Theory of personal identity Parfit begins to describe
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to mind the object’s inherent properties. In The Unimportance of Identity‚ Derek Parfit thoroughly examines Hume’s bundle theory‚ testing it with various imaginary scenarios from ethical‚ moral and identity standpoints. Ultimately‚ Parfit disagrees with Hume’s more absolute interpretation of the conceptual schemes‚ arguing that there is no possible adequate critique of personal identity‚ citing the cognitive
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Moore’s Open Question Argument (OQA)‚ Peter Railton attempts to show under non-analytic naturalism‚ it is possible for normative properties to be reducible to natural properties without running into Moore’s OQA. However‚ this move met an objection by Derek Parfit‚ known as the Triviality Objection. In this essay‚ I will attempt to show that Parfit’s Triviality Objection does not succeed in proving that Non-Analytical Naturalism is incoherent by disagreeing with the view that once reduction is made‚ identity
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Derek Parfit writes about the topic of what persons are and what their existence over time consists of. He is motivated to explore this subject because of his fascination with split-brain patients and their ability to see a different color with each eye and‚ after processing this information in separate hemispheres‚ their left and right hands write down the different ‘seen’ color simultaneously.1 There is no communication between the brain hemispheres about what color they’ve witnessed and therefore
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what makes you. Thomas Reid on the other hand believes memory is proof that we have existed but it is what makes you. Reid says that we are simply things that exists through time and having no memory of events does not mean you didn’t exist. 2) Derek Parfit’s philosophical outlook on life begins with that there is no you as identity is not
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Reductionism argues that persons are nothing over and above the existence of certain mental/physical states. It is this positions that is endorsed by Derek Parfit in arguing that personal identity is nothing more than this stripped down definition. According to such an account‚ persons are not irreducible states of consciousness like many of us seems to intuitively think but instead‚ can be broken down into their individual parts. In this essay‚ I shall argue that Parfit’s account is wrong in how
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