Existence of God

The Matrix, Plato and Descartes There are several obvious similarities between these three works. In The Matrix, the protagonist Neo is a man who learns that his entire existence has been a lie. He has been living in a computer generated dream world along with the rest of humanity. His perceived reality was not actual, he has been deceived. The Matrix has created a false reality for him. Only once he has been given a pill is he able to awaken from his dream state and enter the ‘real world’…

I. INTRODUCTION Brian Tamanaha notes that in Plato’s dialogue, Minos, Socrates identified weaknesses with each view in turn, the one of state law being that some decisions are unjust, unworthy of law. In my view, law as ‘state law’ offers the most compelling account for the paradox that is defining law. The following arguemnts will be premised upon the concepts of an unjust law still technically existing as law and the weaknesses that Socrates identifies for law as social order and law as…

I. INTRODUCTION In Plato’s dialogue, Minos, Socrates identifies weaknesses with each view of legal philosophy in turn - faulting state law for creating “some decisions [that] are unjust, unworthy of law”; social order as law for “bring[ing] in all of social life,” and; law as just or right for ignoring the way in which “opinions differ.” When viewed through Socrates’ criticism, law as ‘state law’ offers the most compelling account for the paradox that is law’s elusive definition. The following…

does not exist (laysa bi-mawjūdin) in the extra-mental, concrete world. This view, however, was rejected by the fifteenth-century Persian poet and Sufi master in the Akbarian tradition, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Jāmī (d. 1492) of Herat in his Treatise on Existence. In this short essay, I begin by trying to unpack Suhrawardī’s complicated argument concerning wujūd as a being of reason in his aforementioned work, and then explain how Jāmī argued to the contrary to demonstrate that wujūd really exists. I…

Nature: the Clarifier Henry David Thoreau’s Where I Lived, and What I Lived For explains not only the assets but the necessity of living away from other human beings in nature to see the reality of human existence and control the mind as one controls one’s hands. Thoreau seeks to sweep away the “mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition” (Thoreau 280). He juxtaposes the ideas of where he lives and what he lives with while seeking freedom in nature. After Thoreau fully relinquishes…

Utopia: an envisaged place or state of things in which all facets are superlative. But, the question is: Is a perfect world attainable? The futuristic World State is describable as the quintessential world, however it’s only proven to be a dystopia. Although, the year 632 A.F. shows immense advancements in science and technology, the World State uses these advancements in creating a civilization which programs their population with specific traits, and placed in their own specific social caste…

How does a boy fare in a world where everything around him is deceptive and full of lies? Does conform? Does he get lost in it? In “Derealization,” the author David mills answers all of these questions as he introduces the readers what happens to a boy who derails reality to compensate for the uncomfortable truths of life and how one can get lost in it. The author also encompasses literary tools, such as illusion motif, symbolism, formal features, and the theme of things being other than they…

the hyperbox. Because of things that exist in the real world we are able to experience them in consciousness therefore there it is necessary to have them exist in our world and not just in our consciousness. Miranda comes to her questioning the existence of real cats and dogs by first explaining connection nets. The connection net works in a way that once you input signals into it, it is able to produce outputs that are similar or different to it. This multi-layer connection…

According to Jame Marcia, there are four different stages of identity that a person can align themselves with given a certain aspect of their life. The stages are diffusion, foreclosure, moratorium, and achievement. Diffusion is the state of having no clear idea of one’s identity and making no attempt to find it. foreclosure is the state of blindly accepting one’s identity and values that were given in childhood by family and significant others. Moratorium is when the adolescent has a vague or…

The Ruthwell cross is a stone, Anglo-Saxon monument which breaks down and disrupts several different societal and culturally defined binaries and is an example of how one object can exist as multiple things/ideas at once. This essay will focus on the disruption of the narrative of past and present, human and non-human, male and female, and wood and stone. Many different aspects and elements of the cross come into play when doing a diffractive reading of the Ruthwell cross. The cross was created…