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- 5801: The Question of an Answer: What It Is To Be Human
- ... one side. Each side is separate, yet each are essential to forming one total piece of paper. (Beal lecture 1996) Taking into consideration all of this information, I am now able to create my own personal philosophy as to what it is to be human. It is a very difficult task indeed, to sit and think solely about what comprises my human presence. To do so, one must consider values, ethics ...
- 5802: Transcendentalism: The Philosophy of the Mind
- ... universe?" Immanuel Kant was one of the major Transcendentalists of his time. One of the major questions he asked was, "What is knowledge, and how is it possible?" Transcendentalists believe that one really only knows personal experiences, and that one can not know the universe which exists. Kant came to the conclusion that there are two universes, one of experience, called the "Phenomenal Universe", and the other the "Noumenal Universe", the ...
- 5803: To What Extent Does the Nature of Language Illuminate Our Understanding of the Relation Between Knowledge of Ourselves and Knowledge of Others?
- ... a manner that is only meaningful to ourselves. Wittgenstein says that “..a wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it is not part of the mechanism.”1 The idea of a uniquely personal language is not relevant here and so will not be discussed further. Language is a system of symbols which represent thoughts, perceptions and a multitude of other mental events. Although the meaning of a given ...
- 5804: The Symposium: A Philosophers Guide to Love
- ... as the pathway to enlightenment love was still a concept that was not understood and unknown. Though many of the guidelines and characteristics of love are wise, some may not apply to modern society. The writing serves as a pamphlet that depicts some of the guidelines of love as the philosophers of Plato's time saw them. The intervention of the God's in the orations of the philosophers can be ...
- 5805: Alexander Ghram Bell
- ... again. Alexander Graham Bell was not trying to invent the telephone, he was just trying to help out people in need. Young Alexander Graham Bell, Aleck as his family knew him, took to reading and writing at a precociously young age. Bell family lore told of his insistence upon mailing a letter to a family friend well before he had grasped any understanding of the alphabet. As he matured, Aleck displayed ...
- 5806: Betrand Russell: The Problems of Philosophy
- ... He is advocating that you be very careful of the supposedly obvious, or of anything that is accepted as fact simply because it is repeated regularly - truisms and mantras should be subjected to your own personal scrutiny before you accept them. The "imprisonment" referred to in the second line is the loss of mental freedom, a result of both holding the prejudices discussed in detail above, and of the lack of ...
- 5807: Authur Miller
- ... the true-life dramatic special about the experiences of an all-woman orchestra in a Nazi concentration camp. The show itself received the Emmy for an Outstanding Drama Special, and Miller received one for Outstanding Writing. Vanessa Redgrave won as Outstanding Actress, and Jane Alexander, as Outstanding Supporting Actress. In addition to his novels, Miller has written two books of reportage: In Russia and Chinese Encounters, both accompanied by photographs by ...
- 5808: Dworkin's Belief of Preferential Treatment
- ... consciousness, but increased it by making people think more about how many spaces are reserved for their particular race. Instead, people should think of what their chances are of getting something on account of their personal knowledge over someone else's, not even considering their race as a factor. This is evident in a black's point of view of getting into the medical school of the University of California at ...
- 5809: The Disproof (and proof) of Everything
- ... it. So, for anyone interested, this paper was written by Toby Hudon, or, for anyone who has a modem, General Lee D. Mented. I hope you had fun reading it, cause it was sure fun writing it.
- 5810: Sigmund Freud
- ... In "Traumdeutung"/"The interpretation of dreams" published in 1900, freud inveiled the dream as a disguised fulfillment of repressed wishes. Within the European culture and civilization was a sensational dsclosure of Freud's (sometimes also personal) fight for self-realization and truth. With his thoughts, Frued not only influenced psychology but also modern time's conception ofthe world. His principles advanced the technique of psychoanalysis, with himself as his first patient ...
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