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Interpersonal relationships are the connections and feelings between two or more people (O’Hair, Wiemann, Mullin, & Teven, 2014, P. 182). A good form of communication is vital to maintain various relationships. Furthermore, it is important to keep in mind that people communicate differently with others depending on their relationship; for example, individuals interact with their family members differently than the way that they would interact with friends or significant others. For this focus,…

In this paper, I will be arguing the meaning of a pragmatic paradox, Husserl’s theory of time-consciousness, whether there are a pragmatic paradoxes in the view of time and in the statement “I do not exist”. The relation of time has repercussion on how we understand how a conscious mind works. I will argue that there is no pragmatic paradox with the idea of time as the current model of physics proves time does not flow; however, there is a pragmatic paradox with the statement “I do not exist”,…

According to Oxford dictionary, the Mind is the element of a person that enables them to be aware of the world and their experiences, to think and to feel. It is the faculty of consciousness and thought. While the body is the physical structure (internal and external) of a person. When it says the mind helps a person to feel, the feeling it is talking about are the emotional feelings. As we know, the body also helps one to feel the environment and the physical pain. So how is the mind and the…

If the world you lived in wasn’t real, how would you know? In this paper, I will be discussing Descartes’s line of reasoning while attempt to prove the uncertainty of many ordinary beliefs using his universal or Cartesian doubt, in Descartes’s book Meditations on First Philosophy. Dubbed the “Father of Modern Philosophy”, Descartes was a philosopher in Sweden who taught others philosophy, and was also a huge advocate for mathematics, specifically geometry. He doubts everything that his senses…

Depression: It means being continually sad or unhappy. It is usually accompanied by lethargy and loss of appetite and sleep disturbances. The patient normally withdraws from his friends and becomes less social. Seligman (1973), said depression psychiatry "cold”, because of its diagnostic frequency. It is usually easy to see when someone is depressed What Are the Main Causes of Depression? Depression can occur due to a variety of reasons such as: • Abuse: Misuse, Past physical, sexual, or…

2. The problem with Cartesian skepticism is that there is not enough evidence to prove that the world around us is always false. Descartes is trying to prove his point off of logic instead of actual evidence. Descartes is putting too much faith on the mind over the physical world. When he explains an evil being manipulating our thoughts and senses he still cannot prove that the evil being actually exists. So Descartes is still going off of assumptions to prove his theory. He tries to resolve…

René Descartes first builds up his position in Meditations on First Philosophy by starting with pushing aside all that we know and learned as it was based on the empiricist thinking, that our beliefs are to be based on our sense experience, which is the perceived foundation of how everyone thinks. This way of thinking, according to Descartes, should be abandon as it is a defective way to do so when learning. Even thinking by numbers and figures are not a good foundation when gaining knowledge in…

Jonbenets Ramsey is one of the most well-known victims and devastating unsolved case in American history. Jonbenets was a beautiful little girl with her whole life ahead of her, a pageant queen, who had her life taken away on Christmas. JonBenets body was found in the basement of her home in Boulder Colorado, December 26th, 1996, after her mother had not seen her in her bed that morning and found a ransom note demanding $118,000 for Jonbenets to come home safely. She had suffered a skull…

I have been developing my worldview for the past 22 years. Every single day I expand my worldview by reading, listening, watching, exploring, and learning. Although I have been expanding my worldview since I was born I have been narrowing down and focusing on my worldview when I entered college. Taking Core IX has helped me stabilize my current worldview. As we study Christian Humanism I find myself aligning more with these values. A Christian Humanist recognizes the inherent dignity in every…

Honore de Balzac’s ending to Peré Goriot is astonishingly effective as it confirms that moving up the social ladder takes priority over all other aspects of life. The author’s effectiveness with this theme is furthered through the use of motifs and descriptive language with the purpose of aiding the readers development as to what the conflict is, why it is inescapable, and how it affects the character’s lives. The first chapter establishes a motif in the form of a metaphor that is the root of…