Prompt #1: Does it matter that you can not really touch anything? How does this make you feel? If you could touch something‚ what would you touch? How do you think it would feel? I don’t think it matters that I can not really touch anything because I can feel it either way. Now that I’ve learned this it makes me question. I say this because we as humans have the sense of touch but we really don’t so I honestly makes me feel confused. If I could touch something I would touch a wall. I think it will
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1. Method of Doubt Throughout Meditation One in The Meditation of the First Philosophy‚ Descartes reflects on a number of falsehoods he has believed throughout his life. He does this to create a system in order to clarify whether they are true or false‚ so that he can build a basic structure from which future knowledge can be based. This approach is called Method of Doubt. Doubt is defined as a feeling of uncertainty. Descartes opens Mediation One by stating that if he wants to establish information
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DESCARTES’ GOD Do we need a watchmaker god or the Christian God and how is it related to living a good life? The subject of god has always fascinated me‚ and I love to read how others interpret their personal gods. It is also interesting to see how people prioritize their gods in their life and what importance they give their gods. I believe that the Christian God is the true God and exactly what we need to live a good life. We need to have a goal and an end‚ which is eternal happiness with
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Existence of God The truth behind the existence of god. As a flesh and blood we seem to aspire to be ultitmley immortal‚ we have created stories guidelines ways in which we our able to become immortal. Christins call it jesus others call it alla or buddua. Does this make one better then the other or is just a set of rules that we all follow just so mankind can prosper. Is faith a trait that is leared or is it a proptey that we our all born with the ability to believe . The questions we have this
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Conceptual Frameworks In chapter 1 some of the sections that mainly stood out to me were the concept of identity‚ dominant and subordinate groups‚ and the concept of privilege. The readings in this chapter took me through several steps as I read. I first thought about identity and how I view myself. Then I thought on how others view me. Identity then led into dominant and subordinate groups. The way I identify myself places me in a dominant or subordinate group
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The Hollow of the three hills Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story begins on a paradox. He writes ‘’in those strange old times…’’ yet the time period hasn’t been specified at all. This can be seen as a deliberate attempt at vagueness. Hawthorne is trying to distort the reader’s sense of time as most successful gothic stories take place in haunted settings outside specific time periods. The rest of the paragraph has been devoted to the description of the setting. The Hollow is a place of dark magic
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Introduction: It is‚ precisely‚ in the modern art gallery of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City‚ that Jackson Pollock’s painting‚ Number 28‚ 1950 hangs. On a wall of its own‚ neither too big nor too small‚ it would seem completely normal in relation to the art surrounding it. But the painting has an interesting quality; to some‚ it appears as a vague‚ brown‚ mess of paint‚ to others‚ as a mystical movement of color contained on a canvas. The techniques that Pollock utilizes to create
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Ben Stone Philosophy Final 12/14/15 1. Descartes’ Method of Doubt basically means to doubt absolutely everything that one could not be absolutely certain of. He has this method because you have all these thoughts in your head that you doubt and are not completely certain about and since you doubt all these things you also doubt your existence but since you doubt your existence‚ this means you have consciousness and actually do exist. Your beliefs are all connected in a foundation of knowledge and
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SOUL The question of the truth and knowledge of soul and its peculiarity in form is a highly debated issue in philosophy. Does the soul exist? How can one find their souls? Since the soul is not physical‚ can we connect with it? Numerous theories of nature and existence of the soul have come up as an attack on the belief in its existence after death. In his Republic‚ Plato argues that the soul consists of three basic energies which animate human beings: Reason‚ Emotion‚ and Appetite. Reason is
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Plato vs. Freud on Metaphysics Plato and Freud have made great strides in their respective fields of study. Both men have made a lasting impact on the way we now as humans view the world that we live in. Plato and Freud have similarities in views that they share but they also have some differences metaphysically. Plato believes that what is ultimately real are ideas‚ he believes that images are imperfect representations of the perfect concepts. While Freud believes what is physically real is by
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