................................................46 B. SELF−CONSCIOUSNESS(1)......................................................................................................................60 IV. THE TRUTH WHICH CONSCIOUS CERTAINTY OF SELF REALIZES ..............................60 THE TRUTH WHICH CONSCIOUS CERTAINTY OF SELF REALIZES ....................................60 A. INDEPENDENCE AND DEPENDENCE OF SELF−CONSCIOUSNESS..................................64 LORDSHIP AND BONDAGE ............
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quote which Christof made in the movie “The Truman Show” depicts the narrow-mindedness of the human brain the inability to search for the truth. Humans get used to the idea of a particular habit of living‚ which disables them from reaching the ultimate truth. Therefore‚ reality is the achievement of the questioning of the world around us to find the perfect truth which should be accepted‚ to live without the conflict that our world presents itself with. In numerous situations in life‚ people confirm
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show different moral values; there are no general moral values that everyone in the world shares‚ and no one should push their own moral judgments onto another person’s or cultures beliefs that are different from their own. The truth or falsity of moral judgments is not universal. In the movie‚ The Island‚ Dr. Merrick believes that what he is doing is morally acceptable because he
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false‚ E is doubtful * If E is false‚ A is doubtful 3. Law of Sub-Alternation a) States that the truth of the universal carries or implies the truth of the particular but not vice versa. * If A is true‚ I is true * If E is true‚ O is true * If I is true‚ A is doubtful * If O is true‚ E is doubtful b) States that the falsity of the particular carries or implies the falsity of the universal but not vice versa. * If I is false‚ A is false * If O is false‚ E is false * If A is false‚
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the implication that no two objects have all of their properties in common; as such an implication suggests that perfect duplicates cannot exist. Perhaps the most famous opponent of the Identity of Indiscernibles is Max Black‚ who argued against the truth of this principle in his essay “The Identity of Indiscernibles” by postulating a world in which two exactly similar spheres (perfect duplicates) could exist. In this paper‚ I shall argue against the Identity of Indiscernibles by defending Black’s claim
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Dionysus’ Mirror: Valerie Nguyen Reflections on Becoming “Truths” Wed. 3-4 – Phil. 184 and “the World” as Becoming Edoardo Zavarella In The Will to Power‚ an expansive and stylistically convoluted accumulation of Nietzsche’s private reflections‚ we encounter the following train of thought‚ symbolically embedded within a passage that
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Classical Rationality as the Basis of Utopism and its Criticism from the Viewpoints of Language and Experience The constant return to utopian projects of re-organizing society testifies that utopism is deeply rooted in the structure of the Classical episteme. In this case to break with utopian line of thinking means to uncover and eliminate all the presuppositions which inevitably lead to the transformation of social ideals into utopias. If we approach the problem of utopism from this point of
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really right or wrong (truths differ from person to person) A situation has to be rational in order to be justified. Impartiality and Moral Reasoning * Contrasting Ideas * Subjectivism is weaker than a justified reason. Good reasons for a position Appealing to feelings with observance Impartial reasoning = objective reasoning Certain roles should be objective Kant on Lying It is never right to lie to a person. Kant worked to make universal laws of ethics Kant’s
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In Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding‚ David Hume argues that what we consider to be causal relations are simply associations made out of habit and hold no necessity of truth. Though he acknowledges that philosophy did not yet have the tools to place necessity on causal relations‚ in the Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics‚ Immanuel Kant argues that it is possible to do so. By reworking the frame of metaphysics‚ introducing synthetic‚ a priori knowledge‚ Kant avoids coming to Hume’s skeptical
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Negative Impacts of Postmodernism Having its roots in the Renaissance and the Enlightenment‚ modernism was the era of universal truth which was objectively understood and interpreted by humankind. Postmodernism‚ the period starting around 1950’s to present‚ rejects this notion of an objective and universal truth. Instead the postmodernist view of meaning is ambiguous and truth is relative to an individual or a group. Furthermore‚ postmodernism rejects the validity of grand narratives‚ such as
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