Consensus reality

People of all ages across the world use social media. As of May 2014, 87 percent of adults used the internet. Seventy-three percent used some kind of social network, and about 64 percent logged in at least once a day (Skiba 199). Several good things can come from using social media, but there are also many bad things that can occur. Connections can be made but lives and relationships can be destroyed just as easily. Social media is not only changing how the world communicates, but it is also…

This was the way Plato brought order to the universe in his own mind. Essentially, he theorized that existence was two tiered. The world humans live in is filled with constant change which we perceive with our senses. However, there is another reality in which exists ideal, everlasting truth. On the word of Plato, the truth we see in this world is subpar in relation to those eternal truths. They are just shadows of the ideal “forms.” Plato established the first school of philosophy, named the…

In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave he argues that there exists a different, immaterial, and intelligible reality. He places this reality above ours and says that we must escape our shackles, like the people in the cave, and find that better reality. Apart from this, he also declares that it is not enough to find the new reality, those who reach it must go back and liberate the other shackled prisoners. This whole process of finding more knowledge is not easy or enjoyable at first. Plato represents…

I define reality as a combination of ideas, perceptions, and views that form the basis of one’s thoughts and actions. It is a collection of what we know to be true. In my life, I know reality through sensory perceptions and my own experiences, learning from the teachings of others, self-reflection and expression of emotion, and intuition or “understanding without knowing” as is described in Lao-tzu’s Tao Te Ching. Using these faculties, I have structured my own version of reality with which I…

Meditations I is written by Descartes. Descartes is a Greek philosopher who wrote Meditations I in 1639. Meditations I is part of a set of six Meditations and the full title of Meditations is actually Indiscernibility Skepticism Meditations on First Philosophy. During the time that Descartes was alive Galileo discovered that Earth was not the center of the universe, and in fact Earth actually rotated around the sun, not the other way around. This made everyone question their former beliefs,…

The Analysis of the Three Poems “My Papa’s Waltz”, “My Father’s Hats” and “Those Winter Sundays” are poems which are real exciting and express the love of fathers towards their kids. In these poems they describe to us the friendship between children and their fathers. The poem “My Papa’s Waltz” explains how a young boy was dancing waltz music with his drunken father. The young son appeared to enjoy having fun with his father while dancing despite the fact that he kept on chafing his ear on his…

The realization of truth can hurt one’s feelings for a short period of time, however, the magnitude of the agony of a lie can hurt oneself in the long run. The denial of truth and reality is used by one’s self-interest to protect and retain their dreams and illusions from being destroyed. The protagonists in the movies “The Matrix” and the “The Truman Show” perceive who they truly are and realize their purpose in life because they choose to discover the truth rather than accepting a delusion.…

Holden of Catcher in the Rye and Junior of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian are distinct personalities in terms of integrating with the society. Holden endeavors to isolate himself from the society; on the other hand, Junior wants to become a part of the society he is living with, while still isolating himself. However, Holden couldn’t achieve not confining himself, whereas Junior turns out to harmonize himself with the society he is a part of. There are various factors…

such opposites as urban and rural, and Western and indigenous. The plots of magical realist works involve issues of borders, mixing, and change. Authors establish these plots to reveal a crucial purpose of magical realism: a more deep and true reality than conventional realist techniques would illustrate. Latin America once had a thriving population of native Aztecs and Incas, but, slowly, as European explorers arrived, the native population had to adjust to the technology and capitalism that…

world in the cave. These shadows are casted by the man who walk pass the hallway carrying objects made of stone and they also make sounds to go along with the objects. These people have to live with this reality their all lives like they would give random names to those objects and in our reality…