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    that you have just made was the best possible decision for you to make? An agent ’s relationship between responsibility and his decisions in life are affected by the alternative choices that were not taken as well as the choices that were made. Thomas Nagel believes that an agent ’s autonomy is always being threatened by the possibility of a viewpoint that is more objective than his own. His view on responsibility is such that in order to place responsibility on an agent‚ sufficient reflection about

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    unless we changed our structure. And even then‚ we would not be able to explain what is it about being a bat by being a bat ourselves. As noted by Nagel (436): ‘I want to know what it is like for a bat to be a bat. Yet if I try to imagine this‚ I am restricted to the resources of my own mind‚ and those resources are inadequate to the task. I cannot perform it either by imagining additions to my present

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    Marrying Absurd

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    Joan Didion’s essay “Marrying Absurd” is a comical review of Las Vegas and its wedding business. It gives the reader a more in depth look at the things they always expected were happening in Nevada but were never concerned enough about to do the research. While I already knew most of the information in the essay‚ Didion presented it in such an entertaining‚ sarcastic manner that I was never bored. Without coming right out and saying just what she thought of the industry she told us exactly how

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    3) According to Nagel‚ Functionalism is the view that the brain is a physical substance but all its conscious states are not just physical states. It consists of mental processes as well. On the other hand‚ Dualism states that we consist of a body and a soul and the mental life takes place in our soul. Functionalism is a form of dualism because the core idea behind functionalism is that there are dual aspects of the brain as it is concerned with only the functional states of the brain. It solves

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    Camus view of the world was seen to have centred on life‚ the meaning and values of existence‚ and how absurd it all was. The view of the absurd was a man ’s futile search for meaning‚ unity and clarity in the face of an unintelligible world devoid of God‚ eternal truths and values. Which then implies that there is an absence of any reasons to live there being no predefined purpose to the world or universe. To which the answer seems to be suicide‚ to remove yourself from a world that is decidedly

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    Moral Luck, Nagel

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    Moral Luck Through Moral Luck‚ Nagel discusses the problem of moral luck and the conflict that arises between the common practice and intuition that most of society believes in regarding morality. Throughout his essay‚ Nagel defines intuition and the phenomenon of moral luck and claims that‚ despite having this intuition‚ people often make moral judgments about people based on factors that are beyond their control (for example‚ a drunk driver who kills a child). Nagel claims that the problem of moral

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    2. Sexual bodies between nature and culture: a dualistic conception Morgan’s account filter out and problematize what he considers the most radical aspects of the analysis of Goldman and Nagel. Respectively regarding their approaches‚ in Morgan’s account sexual desire is not reduced to the unmediated bodily pleasure neither its is over-intellectualized by complex intentional and communicative inter-relation of the partners’ experiences. I argue that even if Morgan clearly gives more credit to the

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    Meursault: The Absurd Hero

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    is given value even though that value itself doesn’t exist. Realizing this a person can find purpose through his meaningless. That is being the absurd hero accepting the world as it is‚ meaningless and still finding happiness through that. Meursault‚ the protagonist of The Stranger written by Albert Camus is the epitome of the absurd hero. The absurd hero is defined as a person that has knowledge of decay‚ fulfillment of happiness‚ and rebuke

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    A country with absurd laws

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    A Country With Absurd Laws A shocking new law In January 2014 a new law was signed by the president of Nigeria with no announcement. According to the law‚ all same-sex marriages‚ gay groups and public show of same-sex affection is forbidden. The law also affects those who assist gay people‚ which means that this law will endanger the HIV programs in Nigeria. A fact that is worth mentioning is that Nigeria runs second in the number of people suffering with HIV and that is 3.4 million people.

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    Absurd Person Singular

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    ‘Beware: the kingdom of the Hopcroft is at hand’. Explain‚ with close reference to Absurd Person Singular‚ why Ayckbourn should deliver this warning about the rise of Sidney and Jane. Absurd Person Singular is staged in three successive Christmases. The three Christmases show the change in status of the Hopcrofts. The Hopcrofts move up the social ladder each Christmas;‚ starting in Act 1‚ whenre they are at the bottom‚ through to Act 3 whenre everyone is dancing to their tune. The Hopcrofts are

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