“Why can’t we have those curves and arches that express feeling in design? What is wrong with them? Why has everything got to be vertical‚ straight‚ unbending‚ only at right angles - and functional?” ¾Charles‚ Prince of Wales. (Quotes) Three years ago I was studying high school in Los Angeles‚ and during vacation I travelled around and explored the city. I still remember out of all the locations that I have toured‚ Walt Disney Concert Hall probably is the one that stands out most in my memory
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many ways‚ we are simply faceless numbers to modern society‚ not individuals with feelings and emotions and dreams. W.H. Auden‚ a well-known English poet and dramatist‚ discusses this important theme in his poem "An Unknown Soldier." Auden‚ being a modernist‚ is concerned with this modern idea of people losing their identities in the face of the changing‚ technological world. In the poem "An Unknown Soldier‚" Auden speaks of the dangers of modern society to the individual including anonymity‚ conformity
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Question Excerpt From Architectural History 01 Q.1) | Founder of the Bauhaus School of Art. | | | A. | Alvar Aalto | B. | Eero Saarinen | C. | Walter Gropius | D. | Le Corbusier | Q.2) | What architectural term is termed to be free from any historical style? | | | A. | Renaissance | B. | Eclecticism | C. | Art Noveau | D. | Baroque | Q.3) | The architect of Chrysler building in N.Y. | | | A. | Erich Mendelsohn | B. | Welton Becket |
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in the fields of ethics‚ morality‚ aesthetics‚ and value. Some forms of idealism‚ like that of Berkeley‚ are often contrasted with materialism. Some idealists‚ like Spinoza‚ are monists as opposed to dualist‚ again like Descartes‚ or pluralist ontologies. Plato is called an idealist because of his theory of Forms or doctrine of Ideas‚ which are "ideal" in the dictionary sense. Most interpreters‚ ancient and modern‚ hold that Plato does not describe the Forms as being in any mind‚ instead he describes
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3.7.2 Knowing what it is like‚ Van Gulick optimistic’s point of view Multiple realization implies that any given creature with a brain suitable to interact with the world has a very rich mental life‚ and should have conscious experience. According to Nagel “… fundamentally an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something chat it is like to be that organism something it is like for the organism. We may call this the subjective character of experience” (Nagel‚ 1974/2002‚
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Conserving this dead language‚ man can only speak in devalued‚ hollow words or in negations. In a world view where becoming is unintelligible‚ and the categories of “being” and “non-being”‚ or non-existence‚ form a mutually exclusive exhaustive ontology under which may be subsumed all existing entities‚ the
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God – “a being than which no greater being can be conceived.” (Anselm) Anselm understands the relationship with existence and reference it can be seen in his argument makes a reliable point of God’s existence without connecting him directly to an ontology theory. He explains the difference between "existence in the understanding" and "existence in reality". Anselm says when something exists in a person’s understanding it just means that the person has the general notion of the thing. Anselm also says
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Andrew Baker Corey Miller Phil-P 100 September 16‚ 2014 God’s existence The issue that I shall be addressing is whether a certain objection to a theistic explanation of God’s existence can be sustained. In this paper‚ the objection in question is advanced mostly by naturalists‚ and the thrust of it is that theists cannot provide a satisfactory account of God’s existence based on causality because occasional philosophical questions arise concerning the truth of the premises. After carefully setting
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Abstract and Referential Ontology: Descartes Versus Spinoza on the Existence of God. The concept of God is central to the development of Cartesian and Spinozan philosophy. Although both philosophers employ an ontological argument for the existence and necessity of God the specific nature of God differs greatly with each account. While Descartes suggests a Judeo-Christian concept of God‚ Spinoza argues a more monistic deity similar to that of the Hindu tradition. The most significant difference
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Jim Jarmusch is one of the prominent post-modernist directors whose works produced a profound impression on the audience and often evoked quite controversial emotions. His films are very original and convey the authentic message of the author‚ but the director often chooses such means of conveying his ideas that his works are perceived in different way by different people. In fact‚ some people enjoy his films and believe they are genius‚ while‚ on the other hand‚ there are people who do not really
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