Class consciousness

René Descartes was a modern philosopher and was dualist. He wrote The Mediations of First Philosophy in 1641. In his arguments he expresses his believes of two substances, which are Res Cogitans and Res Extensa. He will also, give you arguments about how he concluded that god existed, and will use god in his argument to show how it is possible for corporeal things to exist, as well as introduce you the mind and body problem. Descartes will at one-point doubt everything, even his existence, which…

This week’s material on self-authorship is probably my favorite of all of the theories we have talked about so far. I just find this to be the most important job we have as student affairs professionals. The biggest challenges that I see today in my work with students is that they struggle with taking on responsibility and following through on their own actions. They often look for others to give them direction instead of taking charge of their own future. Kegan’s use of orders to describe the…

In a highly developed country, technology can be all around us, but one day it “seemed” like technology was taking over. A man who is running and yelling all throughout the cities states that technology is ruining his family and now they were after him to have dominion over his mind, but is this really happening or is he over-reacting? This is how many who oppose technology seem to view technology’s use. When people make big accusations against technology it can be a big blow to a lot of people,…

Psychoanalysis, Humanism, and Trait Personality are all theories of personality that we possess. Psychoanalysis is defined as someone investigating the interaction of the conscious and unconscious mind and bringing repressed fears and conflicts into the conscious mind. Alfonso’s personality is influenced by psychoanalysis. Humanism is the study of a whole person which includes their uniqueness, creativity, and their values. Alfonso’s personality is possessed by humanism because of the lack of…

The meaning is just what it states, our minds are social; the way in which our minds function is based on the aspect of being social. The way that we think and process the world around us is dependent upon the way in which we have been influenced by others. From our birth and throughout our life people have colonized our mind; our mind in colonized based on certain people and without certain people our mind will break down. In some ways we are aware of this colonization and how people impact…

In her article “Unconscious” Francoise Meltzer defines the unconscious as “the idea that an individual has within him activities of which he is not aware” (147). In this article Meltzer visits conceptions of the unconscious from the views of many people, one of the being Freud. To Freud the unconscious is understood rhetorically through unintended lapses in memory, slips of the tongue, puns and dreams, analogies, metaphors, anecdotes. Freud breaks down the unconscious into three types: the…

The ‘Animal Ways’ are still strong due to ‘Habitual consciousness’. The ’Human Ways’ are still weak and the ‘uncharted territory’. CONTENTMENT & TRUE HAPPINESS “CANNOT BE FOUND IN ‘Animal Ways’, and CAN be found only in the opposite – The ‘Human Ways’ of Existence.” HUMAN MENTALITY DEVELOPMENT is “…INTENTION…

Philosophy sheds light on many themes, one of the issues philosophy contends is the understanding how mind and body are related. Rene Descartes, a father of philosophical ideology devised “The Argument from Introspection” to attempt to answer such question. The argument from introspection explains that the mind and body are two entirely separate states and therefore cannot be identical to one another. Descartes’ rationale behind the argument is that the body is separable because it can be…

to the book, there are four approaches to defining death: irreversible loss of flow of vital fluids, irreversible loss of the soul from the body, irreversible loss of the capacity for bodily integration, and irreversible loss of the capacity of consciousness of social interaction. These four basic approaches to defining death are the basic stepping stones in knowing death has happened, and the beginning steps for loved ones to move on to acceptance in today’s world. When it comes to irreversible…

virtue but when cherishing it for mere intellectual pride, we fall into even greater darkness. Only when the higher consciousness is obtained one can feel united with all life, because the source of misery, the sense of diversity, is vanished. ‘He who sees all beings in the Self and the Self in all beings, he never turns away from the Self.’ Advaita Vedanta sees non-dual consciousness as the natural state but we have to be careful not tomix the term of oneness with sameness. Objects around us…