Z106722 Thursday‚ April 16‚ 2009 Philosophy 322 Paper1 Rene Descartes: Account of Mind and Body In examining Rene Descartes’ philosophy on the mind-body distinction‚ it is clear that his theory has several problems. In order to illustrate these problems it is necessary to reconstruct his theory. After this‚ one can then show the particular disadvantages that these problems create. Finally‚ one can imagine the possible responses Descartes might have developed to overcome these problems.
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Individuation is the process of transformation‚ where the collective and personal unconscious is expressed through dreams‚ active imagination and free association. This idea was perpetuated by Carl Jung. Through recorded ideas and the exploration of deeper self‚ and this includes the daily battles‚ interpersonal circumstances and situations‚ which might include both the positive and the negative‚ self is able to recognise incongruity and discrepancy that might lead to dysfunctionality. Careful observation
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Reflection of Five Minds for the Future The concepts and arguments about Gardner’s five minds enriched me a lot‚ and made me think further about the capabilities and skills people should equipped with to handle the new world in the future individually and cooperatively. As a master student‚ I feel that subjects in commerce will cultivate my cognition and interpersonal skills by developing disciplined‚ synthesizing‚ creating‚ respectful‚ and ethical minds. In a few years time‚ when I become a business
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Lubna Rehman Freud’s Dream Interpretation in the Light of Islamic Dream Ideas Questions about dreams‚ about why do we have them and what do they mean are questions that have been a subject of debate for centuries. On the one hand we have scientists who believe that we dream for physiological reasons alone and that dreams are essentially mental nonsense devoid of psychological meaning: "A tale told by an idiot‚ full of sound and fury‚ signifying nothing." The idea that dreams are nothing more
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stage is children recognize not only myself but also separate from myself. By watching other people‚ I recognize my identity. Freud: human cannot control perfectly by themselves because of sexual drives‚ the Oedipus complex‚ and the unconscious. We fit our unconscious by our dream We categorize deviant subject‚ especially about sex‚ and try to explain people. Commoditizing subjectivity means people try to get benefits (exchangeability) by using their subjectivities (socially relevant feature). How
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Freud’s essay‚ “The Uncanny”‚ merges aesthetics and psychoanalysis to determine what the uncanny is. He determines that aesthetics usually refers to positive emotions and things of beauty but the uncanny is the opposite. In Freud’s opinion‚ the uncanny is ‘…that class of the frightening which leads back to what is known of old and long familiar…’ (I‚ 5). This directly contradicts the only other paper that studied the uncanny by Ernst Jentsch which concluded that the uncanny was the fear of the unfamiliar
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Sigmund Freud was a Psychoanalyst who believed the personality is made up of three parts: ID: This is the part of the personality that is instinctive and follows the needs of the body i.e a baby crying for feeding because they need to be fed‚ no matter how tiring or annoying the caregiver may be. Ego: This is the ‘planning’ part of a personality‚ the part that works out what is needed and how to get it. A child waiting to be given a biscuit rather than just taking one for example‚ has worked out
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like you to allow your unconscious mind to choose one hand... and I don’t know how the mind will know... but just let the unconscious mind decide on a hand... don’t try to choose or assist in any way.... just let it happen naturally.... and you can be curious as to which hand it will be... and when your mind has chosen one hand I would like you to signal by raising a finger or a thumb of that hand‚ to show that the hand has been chosen.... so in your own time‚ now‚ let your mind choose one hand or the
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Evaluate Freud’s psychodynamic theory. The godfather of psychology .as he has often been termed. Perhaps he was in his time. Sigmund Freud. Born in Freiberg‚ Morovia‚ to a poor family in the year 1856. His mother was 21 at the time of his birth‚ his father was 20 years her senior. Attitudes towards sex and women were very different at this time. Sex was very much taboo‚ women were treated as second class and children had no rights. Extreme double standards were normal‚ rich men would happily
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My book of choice was 5 Minds for the Future. This book talks about the important role that the mind plays in our future. According to Gardner (2008)‚ by learning new ways and recognizing how to think‚ we attain more achievement in the professional and business worlds. In this book‚ the author describes the minds he believes we should develop in the future; the disciplinary mind‚ the synthesizing mind‚ the creating mind‚ the respectful mind‚ and the ethical mind (Gardner‚ 2008). The author also talks
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