An Inconvenient Truth

What is religion? Spirituality? Religion is defined as the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods. Spirituality is defined as the quality of being concerned with the human spirit or soul as opposed to material or physical things. For many individuals, religion and spirituality are intimately connected, but for some they are so connected that they become indistinguishable from one another. My purpose is to personally distinguish the two, and…

Pennies in the Dollar Umbrella and blue. A red jacket to complete the picture. A status that is given and received and proceeds to gain shouts and claps of applause and squawks of birds overhead laugh at our joy for something so small, recognition from others that we are worth their attention. And we wonder why we are dissatisfied with lies we inhale like so many pastries: a promise of a happier ending in the story we tell ourselves, to convince ourselves, and we believe everything. Everything…

Though most of Plato's Republic is dedicated to finding ultimate truth via the Forms and establishing the utopia Kallipolis, Plato also explores the importance of falsehood and deception as necessary to constructing an ideal city. Through Socrates, Plato explains the difference between his concept of a true or pure falsehood and of a noble falsehood or a “falsehood of words”: I simply mean that to be false to one's soul about the things are, to be ignorant and to have and hold falsehood there,…

Most would say that it's best to lie sometimes for the sake of others and their feelings ,but others would argue that it's best to speak the truth always. I agree that it's best to tell the truth all the time. When a person is honest, it strengthens their relationship with others and lets people know that they have someone who will always tell them the truth instead of what they would want to hear. In short stories like “The Open Window’’ by Saki, “ the Cask of Amontillado’’ and” The Scarlet…

When it comes to the discussion “Can You Be Good Without God?,” one controversial issue has been you don’t need God to be good. On one hand, people that believe in a religion follow their moral values. That argues with people that don’t have any religion, like atheist that believe they can be good without God. On the other hand, atheists have no belief in any God and believe that they can be good no matter what. That contends to people that think being good with God is following their moral…

For example, imagine the people sheltering Anne Frank and her family told the Nazi’s the truth and said “Hey there in here, come get them.” Anne Frank’s life would have ended much sooner if this happened. So if someone's lives in jeopardy are you gonna throw them out there with honesty or protect them with a lie. This just shows how much lying…

The concept knowledge varies from philosopher to philosopher and reader to reader. Some philosophers have said that knowledge can not be obtained by man. Others have said that all knowledge already exists in men. There are even some philosophers that have said that we can never be certain of what exists and therefore the search for knowledge is continuous. The philosophies of Plato state that because the soul is immortal, man has all knowledge. However, Sextus Empiricus does not agree with this.…

Introduction The purposes of this paper are providing an overview, the extent of application, and the testability of theory of planned behavior (TPB) throughout an analysis and critique. Icek Ajzen is a theorist who developed this theory (Werner, 2004). The scope and purpose of this theory are prediction and explanation human behavior in specific contexts (Ajzen, 1991). The main concepts of TPB concentrated on behavior beliefs, normative beliefs, control beliefs, attitude toward the behavior…

On that spot in very truth, there was and there had long been growing poisonous tooth of bodily pain” (Hawthorne 111). Since Hester does not want to reveal who Pearl’s father is, it affects Dimmesdale even after seven years, “She had witness the intense misery beneath which…

Humanity is not perfect, and this is especially apparent in literature; many authors will utilize their protagonist’s imperfections and illusions in order to highlight the theme of their work. In Oedipus Rex, the protagonist, Oedipus, spends the entire story attempting to flee from his fate given to him by the oracle. By doing this, however, he unknowingly causes the prophecy to be fulfilled. In The Revelation, Mrs. Turpin’s arrogant and judgmental nature causes her to get labeled as an old wart…