Dualism

Social identity, the classification and organization of heterogeneous people based on physical characteristics, is perhaps, one of the most prominent abstraction used in modern discourse. The need to belong to a group has increased; though identification has played a role in how we perceive ourselves and those around us, unfortunately at least one group is put at a disadvantage due to the categorized label that society condemns them off. In Charles Cunningham’s article, To Watch the Faces of the…

Descartes Mind and Body Descartes believes in the separation of mind and body. He believes the mind and body are two individual objects. Descartes believes in the substance dualism of our mind and bodies. There are many reasons that support the mind and body could be connected. Before Descartes separates the mind and body he realizes that he exists. Descartes doubts his existence throughout most of his writings. He comes to the realization that he is real through his line “I think therefore I…

doubted. Once the source of truth is found, then one will achieve absolute knowledge. Hume’s thought process is, “I think, therefore I Am.” which states that you can doubt you have a physical body, but cannot doubt you exist, known as Cartesian dualism. Descartes states that your senses deceive you, but there is no doubt that there is a soul in every body. If the brain in in good shape then you have a soul. Descartes tells us that material things have certain assets that make them "material…

I argue Lady Audley’s portrait is crucial to the movement and culmination of Braddon’s novel. Its symbolic implications are multivalent: as Lynette Felber writes, ‘[the portrait] protests the power and authority of the male gaze; it anatomizes fetishistic desire; and it raises questions about the construction of women and their sexuality in Victorian society’. Structurally, the portrait heralds the fate of Lady Audley by revealing her dual nature, by implicating a significant secret, and by…

Between 1960 and 1986, more than 400 000 Dominicans legally emigrated from the Dominican Republic to the United States, especially to New York and new Jersey, and several thousand others, illegally. In the 90 years, they became the second largest Hispanic group in the northeast, which had significant consequences for the Dominicans who emigrated to the United States, their families in the Dominican Republic and the Americans in general. Today, with the Hispanic community as the largest minority…

Communication and rhetoric do not invoke the same meaning, but rather one is a subset category to the other. The vast term of communication takes on rhetoric as a specialized form of the action. This paper will explain the definitions provided and give examples to how each term is to be used accordingly. Communication is an expression in which all people take part, in the hopes to achieve sharing and understanding. Rhetoric is a specialized form of communication that requires a person to develop…

Plato’s doctrine of the Forms finds its roots in his search for true knowledge. For Plato, true knowledge has to be something that is objective, unchanging, and universal. In his observance of the physical world around him he concludes that due to its changing nature, or flux, this true knowledge cannot reside in this reality. In turn, he concludes that to obtain this true knowledge one cannot rely on their senses as they are inadequate. To be unchanging and objective it therefore must reside…

Unpacking Essentialism Essentialism, at the most basic level, is the idea that things have essences that are unique to them and therefore can be defined. Essentialism, then, has been approached from a wide range of disciplines including philosophy, biology, and psychology to discern the essence of various facets of identity to understand what makes us intrinsically human. However, in this massive philosophical quest to understand humanity, essentialism has also been tasked with understanding…

In chapters eleven and twelve of Yuval Noah Harari 's Sapiens, the author begins to discuss the world and all of its different cultures coming together. With the increase in trade, regions begin to vie for power through the creation of empires. These empires begin to control and dominate large areas of land. The domination of these regions increases the empire influence on trading as well as culture. As regions are conquered and new cultures are assimilated into their conqueror 's society, their…

Feminist Ethics challenges us to revise, reformulate and rethink traditional ethics to the extent it devaluates women 's moral interpretations. Among other feminist thinkers that will be discussed in this essay, Alison Jaggar faults traditional ethics for letting women down in many ways. Significantly it shows less concern for women 's as opposed to men 's issues and interests and overvalues culturally masculine attributes such as hierarchy, domination and transcendence. Whilst undervalues…