Broward College Plato’s Allegory of the cave Soto‚ Jorge #j11029782 Professor Kimber 11/14/12 We often wonder if reality is as real as it seems‚ and if we are part of a world that is real or fictional. Everyday before our eyes‚ we expose ourselves to objects; those whom we have comprised ideas of universal design. Take a bus for example‚ to see it pass by once‚ twice‚ or three times a day is no surprise to us. Similarly‚ we live with those things all the time‚ whether it’s
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A Salesman’s Deception Hulga Hopewell was a thirty-two year old woman who still lived at home with her mother‚ Mrs. Hopewell. She did not enjoy her mother’s company nor did she enjoy the company of the neighbor‚ Mrs. Freeman‚ or Mrs. Freeman’s two daughters‚ Glynese and Carramae. In her mind‚ Hulga referred to them frequently as Glycerin and Caramel. She did find joy in the company of a young man named Manley Pointer‚ though‚ who taught Hulga that he was not the boy he seemed to be and that she
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Animism ________________________________________ by Alan G. Hefner and Virgilio Guimaraes The term animism is derived from the Latin word anima meaning breath or soul. The belief of animism is probably one of man’s oldest beliefs‚ with its origin most likely dating to the Paleolithic age. From its earliest beginnings it was a belief that a soul or spirit existed in every object‚ even if it was inanimate. In a future state this soul or spirit would exist as part of an immaterial soul. The spirit
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Chapter 8 Controversies and Discussions 2 Definition of hallucination Aleman‚ A.‚ & De Haan‚ E.H.F. (1998). On redefining hallucination. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry‚ 68‚ 656-658. Chapter 8 In his interesting and thought-provoking article “Toward a new definition of hallucination”‚ Liester (1998) proposed a revised definition of the concept of hallucination. Taking the widely applied DSM-IV definition as a starting point‚ Liester argued that there are important shortcomings
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Emptiness as a human condition is a sense of generalized boredom‚ social alienation and apathy. Feelings of emptiness often accompanydysthymia‚[1] depression‚ loneliness‚ despair‚ or other mental/emotional disorders such as borderline personality disorder. A sense of emptiness is also part of a natural process of grief‚ as resulting of separation‚[disambiguation needed ] death of a loved one‚ or other significant changes. However‚ the particular meanings of “emptiness” vary with the particular context
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“It is pointless to deny the logical necessity of the existence of God.” First of all‚ we must ask: is the existence of God an analytic statement‚ or is it synthetic. An analytic statement is one which is impossible to think of as false. For example‚ a triangle having three internal angles which total 180 degrees is an analytic statement because it it impossible to think of a triangle in any other way. This therefore means that the proposition is logically necessary and it would be incoherent
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During the chapter fate‚ sophie gets three questions from the philosopher‚ the chapter attempts to assume them by saying everything in life is predetermined‚ then it talks about how a doctor and a philosopher began looking for naturalistic explanations for events that occurred in life‚ I think this quote was put in this chapter because all three of those religions are the same‚ they prey to the same god. To me this quote means if you can’t learn from the past your doomed to be stuck in it. He who
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What is Reality? What is reality? Everyone has his own opinion about this question. Einstein has mentioned that “Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas.” (Einstein‚ p1) This is why people always hold onto what they believe is reality‚ and this finally lead to the formation of a mind-set. In my opinion‚ seeking reality means choosing perception and giving up prejudice instead of what we can accept. The film called The Truman show‚ which stars Jim Carrey‚ tells the story of a man to the whole
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For Descartes‚ you cannot be sure of one’s existence or its reality so first you must doubt it. But as we see through his work Meditations on First Philosophy‚ we are presented by his loosening grip on his own sanity since he had continued to doubt and never accepting to believe in other realities but only is certain of his own existence. Descartes gave the awareness that to doubt is to know and to know is to doubt. He had known that he exists because he can think‚ and he cannot doubt that he can
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Descartes reminisces on what he knows is certain. He opens this review by first being doubtful of all bodies‚ but absolutely certain of his existence since he needs existence to think and doubt. Therefore‚ if he is anything‚ it is that he is a “thinking thing” with all these capabilities to help him make sense of the world. Descartes thus is certain that he is a “thinking thing” with the ability to will‚ understand and imagine in addition to doubt. He states that this is a clear and distinct perception
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