Intentionality

I have always wondered why God demands our worship. God, who is self-sufficient, does not need the praise of humans. He created people not because He needed them, but because He wanted to create something in His own image to share in the joy of His creation. What I never understood until now is the meaning of praise. Praise “not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment” of God (Piper, p 249). When people praise God, they are expressing their joy in an outward fashion. What they do pleases…

society mirror each other. "His placing the welfare and integrity of the forms of association in which we participate as of greater significance than the regard for self and others stems from the fact that both egoism and altruism are forms of "I" intentionality, which means that any attention to the "we" nature of community is unrecognized in egoistic and altruistic pursuits" (Popp,…

Arguing with a Condescension to the Realm of Reality: Three of the Ideas from Republic that I Disagree with There are different degrees of arrogance. Some people think they're right, and you're wrong. Others think they're right and you're wrong, so they're better than you. Then, there's a special category for just one man, and his subsequent disciples. He thought he was right and the rest of the world was wrong, which meant that everyone else was ignorant, and needed to follow other people…

leadership as exclusionary. For me, being a leader is not necessarily being the loudest voice heard but speaking and acting with intention, taking the time to build connections through empathy and belief in individual worth, and embracing the ordinary. Intentionality is a personality trait that I take a lot of pride in. I strive…

definition of conscientiousness for the human being, that characteristic “involves purposive accessing and deliberative processing of information for selecting constructing regulating, and evaluating courses of action “(Bandura, 2001, p. 3). This intentionality or agentic component, as Bandura refers to, is the choice of a “future course of action to be performed” (Bandura, 2001, p.6). For instance , students are intentionally pursuing a course of action that they hope will result in a better…

help support his theory that society is socially constructed. He explains what point he is trying to make and then he gives an example of them. This, for the most part, helps convincingly support his arguments. Searle (1997) explains collective intentionality by giving the example of an orchestra. He says that it is not by chance that the people in the orchestra just happen in the same location, playing the same songs, at the same time, in the same key. They are there together with the intent of…

Intentionality involves simply a study of meaning in given intentional acts and intentional objects. The crux of this belief is that consciousness is conscious of something. To Husserl, the question of the existence of these acts of consciousness has been bracketed…

She is who retains feminist ideas while also maintaining her relationships, but most importantly her marriage. The Feminist Wife does not buy into the idea that a woman’s sole purpose in life is to search for the man of her dreams in order to live happily ever after. She is aware that this is a socially constructed idea that has been perpetuated in the media and that this notion is not imbedded within nature. She does not believe in the idea that the wife and husband are meant to be. Instead,…

In her essay a part of her argument is that this feminized melodrama, which stemmed from dramaturgy in the American Theatre, appealed to a demographic of people in America (i.e. white women), which wholly illuminates the intentionality in the construction of it. Using this paradigm, I’d like to understand what these film-makers, Jennie Livingston and Marlon Riggs, use their branch of melodrama to say. Correspondingly, what is the voice of the film, and how does this melancholy…

within material substance which, by definition, is extended in space (43). It seems just as incoherent to think of minds in physical space! Mental causation, the dualist would hold, ought to involve mental terms, such as thought, consciousness, and intentionality. Kim 's gun example appears to provide a satisfactory account of causation between two physical objects because it utilizes physical terms and mentions extension and spatial relations, both of which are essential to material bodies. Why…