Hard problem of consciousness

started to find the need for getting back in touch with their religion. Revivalism in the colonies did not form around a hard theology of religious freedom. Nevertheless, the ideas it actually produced and opposed the notion of a single truth or a single church. The social effects of multitudes and new denominations was not, however, a great drive helped to create a “national consciousness”. Additionally, the prime movers of the Great Awakening was Jonathan Edwards, most known for his…

Emancipation of The African Race In one of the most celebrated book of the 20th century, W.E.B Du Bois in is his book ‘The Souls of a Black Folk’ writes that ‘The problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color-line’ (Du Bois, 1903). It is from this book that the reader understands how slavery ravaged Africa and implanted its inhabitants in different parts of the American continent. The premise of the advent and the adverse effects of it to the African continent were based on the…

What is personal identity? What is the “self”? There is a great debate that surrounds this subject in philosophy. So, which philosopher has the right idea? Is it David Hume with his theory of impressions? Or is it John Locke with his theory of consciousness? Both men are famous for their views on the matter, and both pose very interesting ideas. On the surface their views seem quite similar, both men believed our experiences shape us. However, Locke believes that our experiences are what embody…

In 2000, innocence consciousness had the idea that innocent people were convicted in large numbers, this was because of the justice system has more of a problem with exonerating them. There was a need for structural reform to reduce the error of wrongfully convicted innocent people (Zalman & Carranno, 2013).The multiple problems with policy reform are the necessity of organization and representation to get the issues to the…

would like to posit my questions to Marx, Marxists, or Post-Marxist. For the class on Tuesday, one question we discussed was about the differences between money as capital and money as mere money. My own answer to this is that Marx discussed this problem by using two different forms of circulation. First is C-M-C (commodity to money, and then to commodity). In this circulation, money is only money. Since people only sell things that have no use value to themselves for money in order…

was really cool. I worked very hard on it. Mongolian traditional clothing has a really detailed structure so it took a lot of time and patience to build something you can actually wear. I failed and stumbled many times but in the end I succeeded. The moment the dress appeared on stage I was really proud of…

There is no way to isolate the cause of this staggering statistic, but it is easy for children to either condemn themselves or believe they are alone in their obstacle. Although children’s inexperienced thoughts do not completely exemplify false consciousness, one can assume that if left to flourish into adulthood, it very well may be the…

are there to help but, when not used or even overused, can create problems within a patient. Repression, in a nutshell, attempts to keep bad thoughts from entering the conscious mind. The ego is the main force that drives repression. People with depression might have a weak ego causing repression to be less effective and in doing so for example could lead to thoughts of low self worth and even hurting themselves reaching consciousness all spiraling down into depression. Displacement is another…

the five stages in the transtheoretical model: precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, and action. During the precontemplation stage, I went through a process called consciousness rising. According to the book Changing for Good consciousness raising means that you are increasing information about yourself and the problem that you have through observation, confrontations,…

Ta-Nehisi argues that “white supremacy is not a matter of false consciousness, but a force so fundamental to America that it is difficult to imagine the country without it”. White supremacy is the cause of inequality, racism, and discrimination laws, such as Jim Crow laws. With statistics, Coates makes it clear to see that…