False consciousness

the object and the ideas (example Sun). Sufficiently prove from blind impulse existence of certain things different from himself (senses) convey ideas into his mind and impressed it with their likenesses. If ideas are taken as certain modes of consciousness. God has more objective reality than those finite substances are represented. Manifest by the natural light that there must be as much be reality… What is cannot be produced by what it is not but likewise that which contains in itself more…

takes an overwhelming amount of evidence to do so. For example, the idea, that if two objects of different weights are dropped from the same height, the heavier one will fall faster, is a seemingly obvious truth. However, we could see this is actually false with an overwhelming amount of quantitative evidence gathered from measurements. Determinists have enough evidence to shed doubt into free will, but not enough evidence to overcome the ever persisting notion that free will is real. Just as…

physical means, physical objects, or physical properties. [According to Lousie Antony, physicalism is , “ the doctrine that all concrete objects and phenomena lie within the domain of physics”.] In terms of consciousness, physicalist believes that mental processes humans experience as consciousness can be fully describes via physical processes in the brain and body. However, according to Frank Jackson, physical facts are not the only knowable facts. To contest this idea Jackson develops the…

cooperate in many instances, it does not suggest that they rely on each other for existence. The example of the brain-dead patient may be imperfect, as one cannot prove that the lack of brain activity is equivalent to the absence of consciousness. Should consciousness persist despite an inactive brain, then the idea of dualism might not be so farfetched. Nevertheless, it is difficult to draw the line between partnership and…

René Descartes claimed that we should throw away all of our opinions and beliefs of the world because we can easily be deceived into believing the wrong things. The only claim that we can be sure of is that we exist. He based his argument on the possibility that we could be tricked in three different ways. We can be misled by our senses, our lives could be a very vivid dream, or we could be fooled by an evil demon. In this essay, I will argue that our knowledge of arithmetics and geometry will…

distinguished from being asleep” (Descartes 51), he suggests. With this motion, he questions the authenticity of studies such as astronomy, medicine, and physics, that rely on the analysis of composite things since all of our understandings of these could be false. However, studies like geometry and arithmetics are certain and indisputable because they deal with the simplest variables, which are independent to whether some objects materially exist or not.…

Sigmund Freud was a psychologist who made influential breakthroughs in neurology, psychotherapy, and psychoanalysis. He published many books, one being The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, and went on to give a series of lectures in the United States. Freud produced many theories throughout his career, investigating human behavior and, more specifically, the human mind. These theories created by Freud have caused many to rethink their values,questioning how the mind truly works. Freud, the…

Liberty and confinement in the hauntological Central to the realm of the hauntological within Wide Sargasso Sea is its ability to embrace many truths. As Antoinette asserts to Rochester, “there is always the other side, always” (Rhys 2000, 82). The realm of the hauntological within Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea is both constraining as well as liberating. The hauntological realm allows for the removal of Antoinette from the repressive structures Rochester exercises on her to, in order to discover her…

The Significant Impact of Blindsight Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi once said, “Control of consciousness determines the quality of life.” The idea that we are in control of our own consciousness, whether we are consciously aware of it or not, is a fascinating one; and it is even more fascinating when you take into consideration phenomenon like blindsight. Blindsight, according to Dictionary.com, is “the ability to respond to visual stimuli without having any conscious visual experience; it can occur…

Over the past centuries, the topics of realism and anti-realism have been on ongoing debate amongst philosophers. Both perspectives have been revisited time after time, citing different reasons for the existence of each belief. These two topics belong to the area of philosophy, more specifically, metaphysics. Metaphysics explores the nature of existence, exploring why things exist and how they came to exist in the first place. Philosophers argue that it is the foundation behind philosophy,…