Half-truth

Once again, I shall address to the court and show that Oedipus is innocent of all charges. Oedipus is a man accused of murdering his own father and incest, however, had he done so with his own free will? Oedipus is a blind old man whom blinded himself in the pure agony of his unbearable reality. I ask to all those whom had been convinced by the attorney general to reconsider and understand where Oedipus stands. Oedipus, the once great king of Thebes was given a cruel and horrible fate from the…

Friedrich Nietzsche strongly opposes the Socratic way of thinking. Socrates wanted to eliminate all remnants of myth and tragedy in modern culture and replace it with an age of reason where the theoretical man has the most power. The theoretical man wishes to reveal all of the world’s secrets before him because he is following Socrates’ belief that “knowledge is virtue”. Nietzsche opposes this idea for two reasons: the elimination of myth and tragedy from the world will make us unfulfilled as a…

reasons can strengthen a social bond. As long as they don’t know the truth, the individual will feel better about the lie. “If you’re at a party and your partner is saying something you disagree with, for example, you might stay quiet, in the name of marital harmony. Many relationships fail when both partners have a disagreement regarding one of the partner’s beliefs. The person being told the lie prefers to hear it than hearing the truth. lying could be a solution when it comes to a failing…

How one defines their own reality speaks loudly of a person’s character. People are always attempting to decipher the riddle of “illusion vs. reality”, but have never come to a consensus on the issue. These opposing ideas stem from the way we distinguish what is real and what is not, which all relies on our own self-perception. In William Shakespeare’s classic tragedy Hamlet, the characters struggle with recognizing the deception that has managed to intertwine itself into their lives. The…

There are puppeteers, who hold up puppets that cast shadows on the wall of the cave. The prisoners are unable to see the actual object, they only see and hear shadows and echoes cast by the real object. Kessler explains, “such men would believe the truth to be nothing else than the shadows of the artifacts” (440), which means they would mistake these shadows as reality. The prisoners would believe the things they see on the wall were real, but in reality know nothing of the real causes of the…

Ich Dene: Sometimes the Legend is Better than the Truth There is much speculation as to the character of Prince Edward, the “Black Prince”. The Prince of Wales and Aquitaine was remembered from “the legend which grew up around the prince [that stemmed] from the spectacular nature of his victories rather than from his character” (Barber 242). There is little information about the prince’s character, besides rhetorical accounts of his life. The prince lived similar to any other royal of the time,…

Christianity is a curious religion. Having the most historically accurate holy book of any religion, and yet the most unbelievable stories mixed in as to be true. I concede that there is a god but whether he is a good god or just one god can never be proven in a million years without him coming down and showing us all. I don't believe christianity is a perfect religion in any stretch of the imagination. I want to talk about psychology, history, and science proving my views on christianity.…

Hume argues that miracles are based purely on experience and that we essentially can’t trust anyone’s judgement because of that. He claims that people are untrustworthy, and because it is impossible to tell whether or not they are making something up or not, we should just assume that they are and we therefore cannot take their word for their experience into consideration when it comes to miracles. A flaw in this argument, however, is that we would have to apply this philosophy to the ideas of…

assumptions made by his contemporaries regarding the classification of identity statements as either contingent or necessary. (Heide, 26 Feb.) Firstly, he renounces the common habit of speaking of necessary truths, those that could not have possibly have been false, as being equivalent to a priori truths, or those knowable without the aid of sensory experience. (Kripke 130) Secondly, he argues for a theory of identity that drastically diverges from others of the time. Kripke offers an…

If a person believes something their whole life, evidence and facts contrary, can’t change their belief. This has proven true for countless people of many different societies. Whether denying global climate change or believing four leaf clovers bring good luck, many people have an instinctive design that makes them steadfast in their comfortable ungrounded beliefs. I witness this ideology firsthand, due to the fact, that my dad is a devout vitamin supplement consumer. He takes about eight…