Class consciousness

In The Personal and the Collective Unconscious, Carl Jung details a variety of encounters with his patients in order to forward his psychoanalytic theory of the unconscious. Jung argues that the unconscious exists as a space of ongoing psychic activity outside of rational will and human agency; the unconscious will inevitably produce symbolic images separate from contingently formulated thoughts and feelings. In synthesizing the messy overlap of polarized symbols present in the personal…

basically in the form of dialogue. The playwright Bernard Shaw's “The Flower Girl” is a classic in the history of English literature. It tells the story of how the professor trained a poor flower girl and eventually made it acceptable to the upper class. The playful humor of the play not only demonstrated the superb language writing ability of the playwright Bernard Shaw, but also demonstrated the careful portrayal and in-depth observation of different sections of the British society at that…

Fate: Discussing the Extent and Purpose of Free Will in Oedipus One of the most multisided philosophical debates can be sparked simply by asking "Are we free?" It's a question that we've been grappling for thousands of years. Sophocles uses Oedipus to ask questions about fate, free will, and how they can possibly exist together. In ancient Greek, the word for fate was Moira, defined by Homer as an impersonal power and sometimes makes its functions interchangeable with those of the Olympian gods.…

Dualism, which is described on page 94, “holds that what exists is either physical or mental (“spiritual”); some things, such as a human person, have both a physical component (a physical body) and a mental component (a mind).” Descartes was an incredibly important figure in history and is said to have begun the age of modern philosophy (page 96). He created the famous phrase of “I think, therefore I am” when he was looking for “a measure of certainty that escapes even the most incredible and…

INTRODUCTION: Artificial intelligence (AI, also machine intelligence, MI) is intelligence exhibited by machines, rather than humans or other animals (natural intelligence, NI). In computer science, the field of AI research defines itself as the study of "intelligent agents": any device that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chance of success at some goal. Colloquially, the term "artificial intelligence" is applied when a machine mimics "cognitive" functions that…

However objectivity keeps on being an elusive objective at the down to earth level. Indeed one school of thought demonstrates that aggregate objectivity is a hallucination which can never be accomplished. Since all research is guided by specific perspectives and perspectives include subjectivity. The fundamental perspectives ought to be clarified. Further he felt that subjectivity creeps in at different stages over the span of sociological research. The exceptionally decision of topic is…

What’s so special about being human? What makes us different from robots and other animals? These philosophical questions are by no doubt seemingly difficult to answer. Of course, the answer may differ for every individual, for it is a question that depends on one’s standard of being ‘human’. For instance, one might consider organisms that are merely biologically human as human, while others might accept organisms that have certain human characteristics as human. However, from the three…

To Be Alive Is To Be Dead Have you ever met the opposite of a zombie? You probably have, a zombie is a being that is dead but quite alive. The opposite of that is a person that is alive but quite dead. Most humans operate like robots and don’t know what's going on around them, they haven't found their purpose or realization of the purpose of life. An epiphany can bring some enlightenment or free those who are alive but “dead”. In James Joyce Dubliners there are many examples of people being…

Mind Control Imagine having the most private part of yourself being controlled by someone else; your thoughts, emotions and movements. Such act is referred to mind controlling or brainwashing. This performance can occur on volunteers or on people who are not expecting it. Mind control is a realistic idea that could very well take place in the future. With the help of technology and unbelievable devices, this may be able happen sooner that anyone could expect. Mind control takes over the ability…

Cavendish addresses the issue of knowledge and dualism in this selection from her work. In this passage she is responding to Descartes dualism and the divide between animal and human consciousness. Descartes is a very strong dualist who believes in human exceptionalism, where humans are the only species who can use the mind, proposing a fundamental difference between the mind and matter. Descartes believes that animals are matter and therefore mechanical beings. This idea of human exceptionalism…