have never seen before. What are you to think? What really is the meaning of love? It is just a word? Does it really have a meaning? This was one of the chapters (“The Meaning of Words”) that stood out to me in the book What Does It All Mean by Thomas Nagel. So what does this word really mean? To me the word means a lot more than just any other word. It is a very
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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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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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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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do not have firsthand knowledge of what it is like to be that person‚ species‚ nationality‚ height or weight. Thomas Nagel uses an example very similar to this in his dualist view proposing that there is a gap between all the elements‚ descriptions and rules that are part of our concept of something‚ and the complete understanding by experiencing the sensations of being something. Nagel uses an example of being a bat as an example to show the difference between being and knowing about a bat. In
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The concern Nagel is bringing up early in his book is the problem of the existence of an External World. The problem simply states that the world outside of our mind does not exist and we are living in a dream from which we cannot wake up. As humans we are innately curious and that I one of the reasons that we why question the existence of an External World‚ simply because we are inquisitive beings. However there is a deeper reasoning. We take a lot of concepts from granted in our world. All of our
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Collaborative Nursing Degree Program Sexual perversions are difficult to define because sexual desire is a subjective experience. Nagel (1969) explains that understanding sexual desire is the prerequisite to understanding sexual perversions. According to Nagel‚ attraction leads to sexual desire when one finds a desirable characteristic in another. As such‚ Nagel explains that people are attracted to people‚ not features; therefore‚ transferring a feature from one individual to another leads to
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Nagel and Epicurus have conflicting views on whether to fear death or not. Although Nagel and Epicurus agree that life is good they have three main arguments in which their view upon death differs which are: “what you don’t know can’t hurt you”‚ “who suffers?” and asymmetry”. This paper will focus on those three reasons and explain both philosopher’s views. The first argument the philosopher’s opinion contrast in is “what you don’t know can’t hurt you”. Epicurus believes in egotistic hedonism which
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After reading Thomas Nagel’s essay‚ it made sense to question if death was evil. Initially‚ I never thought of death as being evil. I saw death as something that is inevitable and necessary. Within my Christian beliefs‚ death is really only the beginning‚ but Nagel made it clear that he defines death in his essay as permanent regardless of his beliefs‚ so I will do the same. According to Nagel‚ if to die is considered evil then to live must be good. He goes on saying how this notion causes certain
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