Concepts in metaphysics

for it’s painless. You may hear a slight buzzing noise in your ears or other foreign sounds that individuals refer to as astral static. Most beginners pay too much attention to these vibrations and sounds which usually snaps them out of this state. Try to ignore them and stay focused on separating. Starting the Separation Process - Now for the fun part. Your first couple of times you will fail. Most beginners don’t realize just how intense it can feel. Fear combined with not knowing what to…

Cause and Effect – Peer Review In an interview with Petr Munzy, a Law Professor of Law and Logic on human thinking, he speaks of one basic principle that permeates the whole universe. It is the principle of Cause and Effect. He states in his interview that every effect around us must have a cause. For example, you walk in a Forrest, and right there in the middle of the Forrest you see a bench. The bench is the effect, what is the cause? Is it accidental or deliberate? Somebody must have…

To begin the inquiry of the possibility of there being and enduring self, the argument that J. David Velleman holds against the enduring self, will be evaluated. In the beginning of Velleman’s paper, So It Goes, he asserts that the enduring self is an illusion. Velleman is helped by another philosopher, Derek Partif, in establishing his claim that anything enduring seems false in claiming that, “connections of memory do not necessarily trace out the career of a single, enduring object, and they…

“I think, therefore I am.” This is one of the most famous statements by Descartes who believes that this is the one thing about which there is no doubt. This also leads to his assumption that free will is self-evident. If one is capable of doubting the existence of things learned through experience even when some of these may be true, then it is obvious that we have the freedom to disbelieve, thus free will. According to Descartes, the mind and body make up a human being. They are two distinct…

God’s attributes are eternal (P19) His features, also known as attributes, would be absurd that they can end or expire or also commence to anything else other than God’s own purposes. (P20) says God’s existence and his essence are on and the same, which the same attributes of God would better explain why God’s eternal essence at the same time of his existence, to be precise, that itself which starts God’s spirit at the same time institutes his presence. God is neither an existing thing nor an…

Jp36884, Junseong Park Response Berkeley 's Idealism In his book, Principles of Human Knowledge, Berkeley, in Principles: part 1, replies to the claim that, 'all that is real and substantial is banished out of the world. 'He first responds to this by saying, “...instead thereof a chimerical scheme of ideas takes place.” What he is saying here is that idealism does not just banish all out of existence, instead, it replaces all that exists with ideas of those particular things in the outside…

The Significance of Hozier Description Andrew Hozier-Byrne, better known as Hozier, rose to fame in late 2014 with his hit song “Take Me to Church”. Already successful in the United Kingdom, the release of this single made him a well-known name in the United States. Hozier’s music contains rock ‘n’ roll and RnB influences. According to Ehrlich’s (2014) interview from MTV with Hozier, Hozier’s exposure as a child to blues music through his father, a drummer in a blues band, as well as his love…

intuition. Each reason he states a transcendental and metaphysical concept to showcase that space is an a priori intuition. The first reason why Kant believed that space is an a priori intuition is because space is not known through empirical abstraction. In other words, space is not a concept that results from experience, in which Kant refers to as “outward experiences” (Kant B38). The reason why Kant believes that the concept of space cannot derive from experience is because in order to…

Cogito ergo sum is perhaps the birth of the modern philosophical movement for multiple reasons. The famous phrase of Descartes’ when translated means, I think, therefore, I am, and was the first of a series of logical proofs that Descartes made to help prove his own existence. Up until this time, the history of modern philosophy had relied on arguments about or involving God. Descartes is credited with writing ““Meditations” as the rejection of medieval ways of thinking and the invention of the…

considering self-concept. This consideration is the difference between personality and self-concept. Personality is how psychologists see us, while self-concept is how we see ourselves (Trenholm, Jensen & Hambly, 2010). I have always had a strong sense of self-concept throughout my life. At every stage of life I have experienced,so far, I have known who I am and in what image I see myself. Others may have a different opinion about my personality; this has never affected my self-concept. After…