Dualism

idea that the simplest or most obvious explanation of several competing ones is the one that should be preferred until it is proven wrong”) makes physicalism a very favorable principle, indeed. This is because when physicalism is compared with dualism, its “properties and activities of the mind can be explained by the properties and activities of the body (the brain)” (Lawhead, p.…

1. Materialists have an ontological claim that everything that exists is made of matter. Therefore, having mental states does not indicate that there is something mental; to deny materialism is to say that there exist non-material entities. One way to deny materialism is to say that mind (or ideas/beliefs) are non-material entities. 2. Functionalism claims that mental contents are functional. The negation of it is to say that mental states are defined introspectively instead of…

Aristotle had several notable ideas such as the Golden Mean, reason and logic, and his main interests were based on metaphysics, science, and ethics. For Plato, he came up with ideas such as the Theory of Forms, Platonic Idealism, Realism, and Platonic dualism, and focused his main interests in epistemology, justice, virtue, politics, and education. Focusing on the idea of forms, Plato believed that only Forms are truly real and that objects of sensory perception were copies. Aristotle believed…

In the second half of the 20th century the African-American population managed to pave the way for a proper self-representation after a long period of actual non-representation of non-whiteness, which contradicts the topos of the crazy quilt of humanity (c.f. Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man). Before that time many Caucasians refused to recognise the African culture as it didn't harmonise with the Eurocentric philosophy. From the point of the white master narrative the literary efforts of black…

SPINOZA AND DESCARTES - MIND, BODIES, AND ACTION For Spinoza, the mind and the body are the same substance. In this manner, personality and body are ontologically the same thing, the same reality or substance. The mind is conjoined from the body, and vice versa. He says, " he mind is united to the body because the body is the object of the mind" (Ethics 2, prop 21). The mind and body are not causally related but rather naturally related, so we can 't say that one decides the other. Spinoza…

as a critique of Descartes theory but before we can discuss that any further we must understand what both of these theories entail and then we can deliberate on why John Locke’s idea is superior. Descartes idea of personal identity is based on dualism and the notion that…

The Roman Empire in the Middle Ages is predominantly known for its religious reforms and impact on the history of the religious community as a whole. However most of the standards and ideals that are so strongly relied upon from this era descend from the earlier pre-christian Roman Empire. One of the first major initiatives in the religious aspect of the Roman Empire is the signing of the Edict of Milan by Emperor Constantine the Great in the West and Licinius Augustus in the East. The Edict of…

The book is about an African American man named Rutherford Calhoun who was stowed away on a slave ship. The following passage in the book is stated by Captain Falcon “Conflict,”... “Is what it means to be conscious. Dualism is the bloody structure of the mind. Subject and object perceiver and perceived, self and other- these ancient twins are built into the mind like stem-piece of merchantman” (Johnson, pg. 97-98). The book is about an African American man named Rutherford Calhoun who was stowed…

The presentation’s premise seeks to elaborate on the emergence of a disjunctive identity. Mainly, how identities of national, cultural, and social sources ascribe the body as a disjunctive presence. Philip Osment’s This Island’s Mine (1988) illustrates the embodiment of such forces. The play extends the theme of colonialism to the advent of postcolonial discourses. Postcolonialism, succinctly, refers to the lingering effect of pernicious ideologies affecting conventions of masculinity and…

Deflating queerness Before contesting the conceptual claim, it would be pertinent to clarify the types of value that are considered by Mackie tout court. Subsequently, the following criteria will be used as a guide by which to assess the plausibility of Mackie’s conceptual claim. The following represents what shall be referred to as the Mackiean moral value criterion (MMV) and includes the following options; MMV 1. MV is true of x, regardless of x’s desires, purpose, motivation and reasons…