Concepts in metaphysics

but also felt that I was better off without her. Instead of realizing how much of a terrible person I was, I continued with my value and thought that I was such a great person. I rationalized my behavior with my knowledge and it protected the self-concept of who I am, promoting good things about who I am. Because my mind was put into a corner about a hard argument or admitting to myself that I am such a perfect person, I became an angry person who blamed some stupid girl who was nothing but nice…

Johnson supports his argument that our understanding of meaning is debilitatingly limited without accounting for the embodied experience of the world by examining five ways that the body engages in it: biologically, ecologically, phenomenologically, socially and culturally. Positing that the body is actively intrinsic to all these areas of life, Johnson reveals through these levels of functioning the ways that it is ‘more than a lump of pulsating flesh” (275). As I made my own ‘conscious effort…

their skill in using and paying attention to their intuition, new areas of focus will appear. This allows for the expression of new creativity and can lead to new areas of perception for the user, such as mathematicians who create new mathematic concepts to only later work them out and find them true. Techniques that Dr. Vaughan advocate lead one to believe that as counselors promote trust in intuition and individuals used their intuition, that society as a whole would flourish as the sub sets…

A few years ago, I joined the club because my mom and dad had to work, but I have stayed because it has been fun. The club has been nice to me and they gave me new opportunities that I would not be able to do without them. The club has impacted my life by helping me get used to being around others, because before I usually stayed to my self and did things alone. The club also got me to meet new people that later became my friends. The club has helped me become a better person by helping me care…

Often times in life, we tend to take things for granted on a day to day basis. Things that help us so often that we fail to be thankful for. Some of these things are more important than others and they should be. Knowing that we have to breathe to stay alive is probably the easiest example of something we do automatically without even thinking about it. Or for the purposes of this class, we think about the senses we have and the impact of how much different our lives would be if we did not have…

The first time i went to ISS i was in kindergarten. I went to ISS for cutting someone with scissors. When i went to ISS for the first time i was with my best friend alex, and all we did was talk and mess around. But when i started getting older ISS was like torture, and it’s so boring now. All you do is just sit there and be quiet for the rest of the day, no friends, no one to talk to, cameras everywhere, and the teachers watching you 24/7. You can only go to the restroom 3 times a day, and…

The construct of co-rumination refers to the excessive discussion of personal problems or distress in a dyadic pair and is a common coping strategy used among close friends. Co-rumination goes beyond simply conversing with a friend by including some key characteristics (Rose, 2002). Co-rumination is marked by a high frequency of discussing the problems and negative feelings with a friend, and repeatedly returning to the same problems. There is a high amount of speculation within the pair…

In the article “Buy Experiences, Not things” James Hamblin, the author, elucidates how experiences bring more happiness than possessions, because utility of buying anything really starts accruing before even buying it, when people are waiting for an actual experience their moods tend to be much more positive, and people tend to be more generous to others when they’ve just thought about an experiential purchase as opposed to a material one. The first point Hamblin emphasizes is utility of…

The world looks different to me; flowers lack detail, all trees appear to be identical, and the fish in the sea are blurry to me. I was born with a rare eye disorder called Peters’ anomaly. Due to my visual impairment my view of the world, in actuality, is diverse. I might not have excellent vision with my eyes, but I have a different type of vision. I have a vision for innovation and creativity. The simplicity of everyday tasks for the average person is an obstacle for me that I have no option…

Styles make the fights that is what boxing promoters always say when they choose two fighters to encounter each other in the ring. A boxer's repertoire, speed, ferociousness, capability to yield a punch, and persona determines the style. Boxing styles are more instinct than a learned feature. Once someone boxes more and more they will find themselves suiting into one of the four styles swarmer, slugger, boxer, and a boxer-puncher. First, the swarmer is a relentless aggressor with a strong chin…