Corruption Perceptions Index

Descartes is concerned with the uncertainty of knowledge. When we see, feel, hear, and touch the things around us, we think that they are real. Nevertheless, however real something may seem, Descartes suggests that there is no way we can actually know whether or not it exists (without the help of God). Moreover, there needs to be some kind of proof that our ideas and sense-created images of the world actually depict what exists in reality, if we want to have any certainty of it. Descartes…

In Meditations of First Philosophy, Descartes explains philosophical meditations written over six days. The Second Meditation concerns the nature of the human mind. Descartes argues that the human mind is better known than the body. A major claim of his is his most famous quote “I think, therefore I am,” meaning a thinking thing, such as himself, can exist. In this essay, I will prove that Descartes’ argument in the Second Meditation for his existence as a thinking thing is convincing. First, I…

has always come back to the foundation. The “Dynamic Triangle of Change” introduced by Junius Williams forms the framework of the process an effective and ineffective change agent moves through in order to reform one’s surroundings. Information, perception, and action make up the three elements of this triangle. During this semester, the importance of these elements has been presented inside and outside the classroom. Before seeing the importance of the triangle, understanding of the elements…

However, understanding members’ perception of an organizations ethical environment is important because of its potential influence on its members’ ethical behavior Identified throughout the text are three components that hone in on what makes up the organization’s ethical environment. Those…

of how he cannot be certain of anything. He has reached the conclusion of a clearer understanding of the physical world and how it comes from the use of judgement and reason, as opposed to relying solely on what ‘appears to be the case’ through perception of the senses and use of the imagination. Ultimately, then, I think the true nature of things in the external world are not revealed fully. How do I really know what is for certain? Descartes uses the analogy of wax in which deals with how we…

Descartes believes that the mind and body are separate because people are a rational thinking thing. One needs to think to exist that was the first certainty Descartes came too. Thinking is what makes us exist and the body is simply an extension to that. The body is unnecessary to exist since a person can exist without a leg or an arm but you cannot deceive existence from thinking. Descartes uses the example of the triangle and in class we modified this to say one can imagine a pink triangle…

Space is the way the foreground, middle ground, and the background are treated. For Sesshu, space helps depict the theme better by having negative space between Bodhidharma and Huike. In the foreground, Huike is in his own space and there is no overlapping. Next, in the middle ground, it is Bodhidharma but his space is enclosed by the cave, mimicking his posture. In the background, it is the cave where it overlaps with layers of the rocks sprawling across the page. On the left side, there is…

““Was he different from others?” “Only on the inside. When you looked down his throat you could see the whole universe.”” This was said by Colin and Mary in The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. This quote relates to all of the characters because there is more to them than what you see. They all had their own struggles and ways of happiness that they had to find. They found that by unlocking their hearts and a huge piece of that is the garden. It is what pulled them all together. In The…

Why would a person have feelings for a person only to realize the expectations of the other would just be too unrealistic? Would you find that fact out for yourself or from another person? Both Sammy in “A & P” by James Updike and the narrator in “Araby” by James Joyce find this out, only in altering ways. They are both on this lonely quest to find love with interesting ways to go about it, publicly or privately. The characters in each story provide contrasting opinions to the main character,…

In 1a John flouts the Maxim of Manner. “Is that my computer” looks at first as a relevant question, but what John rather means is to ask why Sherlock is using his computer. John does give a warning to Sherlock that he should not use his computer, though being polite in not stating what he means explicitly. Sherlock in turn answers the question on a literal level, by simply affirming John's question. He even states where his computer is at the given time, to make clear that it couldn't be his…