Intention

should span the whole globe. It has been said many times that the British Museum has no plans on returning any art work, but that won't stop the people of Athens from continuing their protest. The intentions of Lord Elgin could have been good…

theory has their own method of analysis based in it intrinsically value, in this case the intrinsically value is well-being. This theory have three main features which are: (1) maximize goodness, (2) moral knowledge and (3) assessing actions and intentions. In the first place, Act-Utilitarianism maximize goodness by seeking to produce the greatest ratio of happiness over misery. We must be careful to not misunderstand this feature. Since, maximize goodness it is not predetermined on the number…

soliloquy of the play. Hamlet gets the idea of faking insanity from Horatio's warning when he meets his father's spirit. His declared intention to act strange and odd and to put on such a disposition is not the only indication. When completing with Horatio the arrangements for the play, Hamlet says "I must be idle". This obviously is a declaration of his intention to be foolish. Then later he says to his mother, "I essentially am not in madness, but mad in craft." He assures his mother that…

Jackson and “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner, this assumption proves true. Although they’re two completely different stories with varying themes and purposes, the two pieces do contain similar traits that are necessary to understand the author’s intentions; specifically, both authors decided to purposefully utilize a non-participating narrator, only differing in respect to the narrator’s tone. One similarity that both literary pieces contains is the perspective of the narrator. Faulkner…

Palestinians want is occupied by the Israelis, and they definitely do not want to give anything up. Israel is a Jewish state, but the opposing side has a Muslim and Arab population. Israel is guilty of ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians because the main intention of the Israelis is to push the Palestinians out, not kill them. Ethnic cleansing is described as forcing an unwanted ethnic group out of a society.…

Intentionalism has strong, moderate and weak versions, however in general the theory argues that what constitutes art are the intentions of the artist. In other words, the meaning of any given artwork is what the artist intended the artwork to mean (Davies 2006, pp. 114-116). This, when applied on a larger scale, says that an object is not art if it was not intended as such by the…

prosecutor brings out the question of intention.4[4] Jefferson is accused as a murderer "with the full intention of robbing the old man and then killing him" (6). The money and the whiskey become the evidences of Jefferson's guilty intention through the prosecutor's rhetoric. He urges that Jefferson "stuffed the money into his pockets and celebrated the event by drinking over their still-bleeding bodies" (7). His malicious interpretation of Jefferson's intention reflects and, at the same…

against the wall and wanted it to be removed, whereas, the supporters of Serra thought this was disrespectful to his work and wanted it to remain in the plaza. Nonetheless, the sculpture should not be removed from the plaza because of Serra’s worthy intentions behind the sculpture’s creation. Furthermore,…

only able to do what their programming allows them to do. A computer cannot feel because feeling is a human capability. Artificial intelligence cannot do with intention because artificial intelligence cannot have intention. Intentionalism is a biological feature of living things with authentic brains. The only way a machine could have intention is if it had the brain of a human, and since David’s brian was nowhere near that, his emotional journey towards love could not have…

person or group of people using a special skill or quality to produce a piece that portrays their talent or an idea they may have. One may say that an artist produces a piece of art, but what is an artist? Simply someone who creates art with the intention of creating art. By create, I do not mean “create” in a traditional sense. An artist does not need to physically produce the piece; using pre-made materials, natural materials, etc to create a conceptual idea or physical art…