Faith and rationality

Immanuel Kant is most notably known as the man whose ideas on morality have greatly shaped the landscape of Ethics. Perhaps most important is his concept of rational humans having inherent dignity, but is this philosophy still true today and if so is it still relevant in a society that has so many more facets in a world far more complex than the time he lived. By introducing and explaining Kant’s concept of inherent dignity and showing how some people or groups of people have been at the both a…

arrived is meant to the highest self-interest and bring the greatest satisfaction to the decision maker. This subjective view of the reasons why individuals make decisions reduces the logicalness of any decision to an individual level. Ultimately, rationality and logicality is reduced to a subjective matter that differs from one individual to another. Such reasoning, has in most cases, been adopted by…

In the early 19th century, women were often thought as inferior to men due to their sentiment and irrationality. However, emerging feminist advocate Mary Wollstonecraft argued that women were not treated as rational beings because men would not allow them to have an education. She believed that women should have equal rights as men to prove that they were rational beings and not prone to sentiment. She wrote many works demonstrating her beliefs in hopes to evoke change for women’s rights.…

Rationality is a term that most people understand as making sensible decisions and choices based on facts and the amount information someone possess in a particular situation. However, in the world of economics and psychology this term can be assumed in two different contrasts. In economics, rationality can be defined as individuals making decisions based on their self-interest as well as maximising their utility. This is also mentioned by Edgeworth (1881 p.16) where he states ‘the first…

Consent is when an individual makes an informed, rational and voluntary decision to engage in sexual activities with another consenting person/s. Making an ‘informed’ decision means that the individual has been made aware of anything that might affect the partner long-term, such as the other person's potential STDs, relationship status (i.e., spouse, partner, etc.) or being lied to about pregnancy potential (i.e., being on birth control, using expired condom, etc.). My definition does not…

sought out a better understanding of their faith and strongly encouraged others to do so as well. This caused some individuals to dismiss their faith altogether, believing that reason and faith could not seamlessly work together. Yet despite these individual’s beliefs, Christianity has overcome this. Furthermore, Christianity has…

People often make bad decisions that makes them regret afterwards. For example, People gamble and lose all of their money, make bets on things that they are not a hundred percent sure of. We can see such examples from people’s life experience and from many movies and various literatures. In the short story “The Bet”, Anton Chekhov wrote about two gentleman who make bet on whether life imprisonment or execution is more moral than the other. The lawyer, who went to prison tried to prove that going…

Positive Impact Last year, I made the decision to run for an executive position in a university society, and was somewhat surprisingly elected for the role. While this has resulted in both positive and negative consequences, it generally has a positive impact in relation to my career aspirations. I wanted to become an executive member of the society so that I could influence the society in the direction I want – I was disappointed in the previous executive team, as the society was not what I…

Joints is a key for tectonic, tectonic is a key for construction. The idea of architecture design in this exhibition will be different. Comparing to typical design strategies, which means analysis programs need or volume operation, this exhibition starting from smallest component, joint, to face the architectural discourse. How to apply or face the joints of architecture will show the difference attitude we face to our spacial design. Tectonic is a way to connect components, is a kind of…

But the cinema of the body implies also a social gest. We see this in how people react to the monk: sometimes with indifference, but other times they stare, try to interact with him, see him as a performer. We are not the only seers in the film, the people in it are voyeurs of something they do and see everyday (walking), but the fact that the monk’s walking is at a different temporality breaks the sensory motor link and affects us: makes us think the unthought. The ceremonialization of the body…