Finding Balance Between Imagination and Reality The true state of reality is accepting and having knowledges of things as they actually exist. Reality includes everything that is and has been‚ whether it is evident or coherent. Most people become prisoners of reality and begin to build their own perception of what it is or should be. The chances of forming mental images and creating a one-sided version of one’s truth is seen daily. Imagination influences the way we process things mentally. It impacts
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In Chapter 10‚ Nous instructs Nature‚ Urania and Physis on what is to be the nature of Man. This creation of man marks the culmination of the creation of the cosmos. Man‚ according to Nous‚ is to be made in the image of the divine and thus will have a variation of Nous’s wisdom. He will be a composition of both the finite and the infinite. His mind will allow him to participate in the divine; however‚ since his body is made up of the elements his body will be finite. Because‚ mind and body are of
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Plato’s Cave is a story about a group of people and their perceived reality. In this story‚ there are many people that have been chained to a wall of the caves for their entire lives. All they can see is a blank wall that has shadows projected on it. These shadows are the prisoners’ reality because that is the only thing that they see. There is one prisoner that is freed and learns what true reality it. The Cave‚ a novel by Jose Saramago‚ is a tale about a society where the Center controls many aspects
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Maturity isn’t something you can just explain in a definition and expect everyone to fit into that category. Although it’s not age based‚ it is something that everyone is unique in‚ with no one on the same maturity level as the person next to them. Gina Barreca discusses this in her article “Maturity is Getting it Done‚ No Whining.” Another article “Critical Convictions: On Maturity” by Donald Vroon states the same topic through very similar ideas. Vroon says “age is no guarantee of maturity. Many
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Julian’s ability to describe the vastness of God seems to be unmatched by any save for those who utilize apophatic theology. While her perception that we must know our smallness and “to nought everything that is made in order to have God who is unmade‚” does echoes the enigmatic and paradoxical writings of Pseudo-Dionysius‚ and her embrace of the limitations of mankind’s ability to comprehend God’s vast love echoes The Cloud of Unknowing; she never dips into apophatic descriptions of the divine.
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Ever wondered about your existence? Or what came first‚ the chicken or the egg? Although a plethora of philosophical arguments for God’s existence has been proposed by Christian‚ Jewish and secular writers‚ their arguments have limited rational thoughts to sufficiently prove God’s existence. In actuality‚ there is no level of rationality that is able to ascertain who or what is readily described as the ‘Alpha’ being due to our finite human knowledge. We are stuck in a mess of enigmas‚ contradictions
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From the beginning‚ humanity has been conflicted with the question: is there a God? Morality and spirituality have always been intertwined. However‚ there have been those who question the existence of a higher power. The article “ Atheist Activists Targeting Children With ‘Good Without a God’ Campaign” by Heather Clark presents two opposing views on religion as presented by different campaigns. The “Good Without a God” campaign presents the belief that morality can exist without the notion of religion
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In Harry Frankfort’s book On Bullshit‚ he discusses what he deems is bullshit and what is not bullshit. He concludes that bullshit is just a way to accomplish someone’s personal goals. In addition‚ when a person is bullshitting he or she has no consideration for whether what he or she is saying is actually the truth. Essentially‚ indifference is the essence of bullshit. That being said‚ Frankfort proposes that sincerity is bullshit because it does not rely on the truth. Yet‚ I disagree. Sincerity
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In the second meditation of his Meditations on First Philosophy‚ Rene Descartes argues that it is possible to doubt the existence of the body‚ while it is impossible to doubt the mind. Following this logic‚ the mind must exist while the body may simply be a product of elaborate deception. He comes to this conclusion through relentlessly doubting every aspect of his existence while simultaneously assuming the presence of a “very powerful and very cunning” deceiver who “ever employs his ingenuity of
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In René Descartes Meditations on first Philosophy‚ he goes through a process of elimination of concepts he has formed up in his mind‚ to come to conclude whether he is a living thing. Descartes at a point in his meditation comes to say‚ that he is a living thing due to his ability to think. In his Meditations on first Philosophy‚ he says that he is precisely nothing but a thinking thing. In this paper I will be explaining how Descartes came to formulate his conclusion of his existence being so‚ owing
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