False consciousness

For my first Get Out paper, I have chosen to write about Epistemology. Epistemology is known to be the study of human knowledge. It simply explains how we get it, what it is, whether we have it, or why we don 't. Each philosopher had a different theory about knowledge and how we come about it. Descartes believed that if we wanted to believe in something with a certainty, that we had to first doubt everything that we already know. In other words, we had to simply pretend that everything was…

not everyone is who they seem, which is a part of what the psychoanalytic criticism explores, and Gatsby’s actions and words can be broken down and further analyzed into something deeper. Freud states that although everyone has three levels of consciousness, they operate through their unconscious motives the most. For example, Gatsby’s main motives are shame, grief, denial, and fear. Gatsby’s sumptuous displays of wealth actually showcase a defence…

Spiraling into Savagery Inside every human, there is civilization and there is savagery. The choices that are made by people show others what type of person they are. This is evident in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies as the civilized English boys make terrible choices which show others the savagery within them. As time progresses in the book, the boys begin to lose awareness for the events occurring around them. This loss of awareness shows how after each death occurs, the boys are…

The tale Oates spins is one of mystery and intrigue. Is Arnold Friend a complete stranger with sinister intentions or is he simply a figment of an overactive imagination? From the moment he arrives something is very unnatural about him from his odd hair to his crooked leg. Is it possible that such a villain exists outside the mind of a pubescent youth, or is Connie asleep, and, if so, who is Arnold Friend? This question requires a look at the story, long before we are introduced to the strange…

As I signed up for a class called “Embodied Discourse” I had no idea what to expect; the only information I knew was that I was about to take a Goal 1 course. If someone asked me on week one or even two what “embodied discourse” meant in terms of this course, I believe my response would be something along the lines of: “I don’t know, but we do yoga every day!” As the course progressed, if someone asked that same question, my response transformed more to: “It’s about integrating your mind and…

The artwork evokes the meaning of birth, death, time, human consciousness, baptism and it also links to violas psychological experience as a child. During the beginning of the film a man standing naked near the pool contemplates then decides to leap into the water, this links to when viola jumped into a lake as a child…

Louise Hart once said, “Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.” To be “considered” happy food, shelter, and clothing seem to be the only requirements, what about the desire for attention, companionship, communication, and the feeling of wanting to be understood? Humans never want to be alone so to satisfy desires self-confidence has to be high and happiness tends to be a goal to reach. Through…

Substance dualism is the perspective that both physical substance and mental substance make up the world and exist independently. This philosophy sees the mind and the body as two separate things. As a result, the mind cannot be explained in terms of the brain. Substance dualism can be explained by the separation of pure mind and pure matter. Reductive physicalism is different than substance dualism because they do not include nonphysical stuff. This perspective views the world as made only of…

Ambition is something everyone has. Your ambitions strives and makes you achieve your goals. However, too much ambition can corrupt and destroy a person. Ambition is like a drug, small amounts can make you feel great, but too much can kill you. Shakespeare clearly portrays the negative effects of too much ambition throughout his play The Tragedy of Macbeth. He uses the main character, Macbeth, to show us how excessive amounts of ambition can lead someone to their doom. In the beginning of…

Avicenna in his major work Kitab Al-Najat argues that the human soul is not material. He argues that the rational faculty, namely the soul, does not know through physical organ. In this sense, he can prove that the soul is not inhered in the material body, therefore indicating that the soul is immaterial. Avicenna argued in Kitab Al-Najat that “for there is no organ between the rational faculty and itself, nor does one intervene between it and its organ or between it and the fact that it knows”.…