asserts that human nature is complex‚ as it is comprised of two contradictory forces- rationality and irrationality. He acknowledges that while order and logic are crucial in a functioning society‚ they can also be stifling. Likewise‚ while embracing sensuality‚ which can offer release and freedom‚ it too can be destructive. Euripides’ tragic play thus explores whether there is space for this irrationality in a well structured and ordered society. While the playwright does not come to a conclusion‚ he
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stage to intensify this passionate conflict between these two periods and also compares it to the romanticism period whereby Jim Hunter speaks of romanticism challenging the assumptions of the enlightenment and some what reversing them so that irrationality is promoted over rationality and the following of the heart is promoted over the head. Alison E Weatley‚ another Academic analysing Tom Stoppards Arcadia‚ discusses the human desire to control or order nature and how human nature is shown to
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Very Old Man with Enormous Wings‚ Márquez uses satire to criticize the Church and its extremely literal interpretations of the Bible and the closemindedness of society towards the unknown. Through both critiques‚ Márquez aims to point out the irrationality of pre-conceived social notions and discrimination based on these conceptions. Most of the critiques aimed at the Church are embodied in Father Gonzaga’s initial reactions to the angel. “[Father Gonzaga] said good morning to him in Latin
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attachments are not necessarily true with regards to all walks of life. Physical enhancements‚ specifically‚ the use of aesthetic surgery in adolescence‚ create an unnecessary risk devised from psychological delusions. Social sublimation‚ philosophical irrationality‚ and emotional immaturity are the roots that live up to this heavy risk. Real enhancement comes from reflecting on the true values of life that reach beyond physical attachments. To begin‚ adolescents who fall into the pit
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realize who they are. This does not always have to be a negative aspect‚ but when taken to great lengths‚ this can be this can be extremely harmful to a person. This could be called bestowed love‚ which‚ although unique‚ can be irrational. This irrationality can destroy one’s emotions. This is why love is feared and
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Feb. 2014. Ahlers‚ Mike M. "TSA Removing ’virtual Strip Search ’ Body Scanners." CNN. Cable News Network‚ 19 Jan. 2013. Web. 04 Mar. 2014. Byman‚ Daniel. "Why Drones Work." Global. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 20 Mar. 2014. Friedersdorf‚ Conor. "The Irrationality of Giving Up This Much Liberty to Fight Terror." The Atlantic. Atlantic Media Company‚ 10 June 2013. Web. 26 Feb. 2014. Gertz‚ Bill. "Washington Free Beacon." Washington Free Beacon Pentagon Drone Strikes to Remain Indispensable Weapon Against
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our ways of thinking and acting‚ and willingness to foster criticality in others”. (Wikipedia‚ 2011) Some consider critical thinking to be an unnatural act because naturally people are determined to preserve their beliefs‚ even to the point of irrationality. We tend to discard evidence that conflicts with our beliefs and to attack those who offer such evidence (Carroll‚ 2011). It can even be broken down systematically into 35 dimensions based on affective‚ cognitive macro abilities‚ and cognitive
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Sheep‚ as a method of separating his fictional androids from the human protagonists. This dichotomy emphasizes the role of empathy in creating the human identity. However‚ empathy is‚ merely a characteristic of the irrational and it is this innate irrationality of human beings‚ not just empathy‚ that truly separates them as alive. By struggling to come to terms with the violation of an identity‚ by blurring the lines between good and evil‚ humans in the novel segregate themselves from constructed beings
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VISIONS OF SOCIETY: The Bureaucratization of Society 43 The McDonaldization of Society GEORGE RITZER The success of fast food chains is used by Ritzer as a metaphor for some general trends characterizing contemporary American society.We have become a nation driven by concerns for rationality‚ speed‚ and efficiency that are so well illustrated by the McDonalds’ style of operation. Food‚ packaging‚ and service are designed to move quickly and cheaply through and out of these restaurants‚ giving customers
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As a play portraying the deliberations of a jury in a murder trial‚ Twelve Angry Men is naturally concerned with the idea of justice. Yet the play does not represent either the American criminal justice system or the abstract concept of justice as simple or clear. A simple representation of the criminal justice system might be named Twelve Serious Men‚ and portray those men as diligently‚ rationally‚ and single-mindedly going through the evidence until they uncover the facts that reveal what actually
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