Class consciousness

himself a lot and has a few obscure discussions of the construct of human consciousness. It seems to me he refers to a variety of different consciousness’s in his work which leads me to believe he was making a lot this up to sound smarter than other people. I can’t tell if he is referring to two types of consciousness or one conscious that has two modes that can be sorted as either the pre-reflective or the reflective consciousness. Although it does appear clear to me that he does distinguish…

In the beginning of the early 17th century, consciousness had became full center in thinking about the mind and how it works. From the mid-17th through the late 19th century, consciousness had become considered necessary or definitive of the mind. Consciousness means the state or quality of awareness, or of being aware of an external object or something within oneself. René Descartes defined the belief of thought (pensée),Pensee means a though or reflection, this is a poetic from of an epigram…

There are certain beliefs humans like to hold, such as the idea of free will, and that our individual experiences matter in making us who we are. Rorty’s theory leaves us guessing about what he may say to such a critique. Are all sensations that are the same in the physical world identical? For example if S sees a blue jay and S’ sees that same bluejay, are those mental events identical? Do these mental states make us human? Can our live always be categorized by mere thoughts and sensations?…

Personal identity is the concept in which you develop your own sense of self over time. In a philosophical sense, personal identity theory is asking yourself, who am I, why do I exist? These questions have been thought of and discussed throughout history by philosophers who have searched for the answer about the actions and nature of the human being. The philosophy of personal identity has addressed the matter of the human beings existence and how we exist throughout time. When you ask yourself…

Philosophers and psychologists have long debated the nature of emotions. Although they are a universal experience, emotions become very difficult to define. They involve bodily sensations and certain behaviours yet they are much more sophisticated than brute feeling such as hunger and thirst as they also involve a cognitive aspect. Emotions can generally defined by cognitive, behavioural and physiological reactions to some external stimulus, therefore we know that emotions are a combination of…

The alaya-vijnana can be boiled down to our stored-consciousness, which stores and preserves information from our life experiences (Shun 'ei 29). In my mind, this can be defined by what we consider a person 's character. In life, people latch onto experiences from others, and interactions with others, as well…

events that occurred in our waking state. Freud challenged this when he used the following statement, “like a cheap material always available and put to use whenever needed” this was used to explain how memories that happened during the waking part of the day and physical sensations while in the unconscious were not to be fully blamed for the cause of dreams, but rather they were elements in part of the dreams that were just there to be used by the psyche whenever determining the meaning of the…

A material thing,which is defined as something that has matter, cannot be moved by an immaterial thing, which is defined as something that does not have matter. The reasoning behind this is the laws of physics which do not allow something without matter to move something with matter. The body, which is a material substance, is moved by the mind, which is an immaterial substance. The reasoning behind this is the argument proposed by Descartes, known as Cartesian dualism, which claims that the…

In a world obsessed with knowledge we are ignorant about so many things, but is that actually a bad thing? I don’t think so. Think about death. Our death is the one thing that we are completely ignorant about. We have no idea when the moment will come when we cease to exist. Even people who have a terminal illness and have three months to live don’t even know the exact moment they will die. In our ignorance we can continue to live and embrace what we have. If we knew how we would die we would…

superego takes control and changes his perspective drastically. He realizes that if he gives in to intimacy, he will rob the young girl of her innocence. Holden’s psyche has become so compromised with the complexities of Allie’s death that he cannot bare the idea of taking someone’s innocence. He swells up with guilt and refuses to have sexual intercourse with this young prostitute in order to preserve her innocence. From a Freudian perspective, Holden was deprived of his own innocence after…