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    require us to do things that we intuitively think are horrible although they might promote overall happiness. In this paper, I will argue that this objection threatens the success of the utilitarian justification for the state because our moral intuitions play a bigger role in our decisions than we think. Utilitarianism, a form of consequentialism developed in detail by English philosophers Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill, holds that the most correct way for us to live is the way that…

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    Looking at shared knowledge; it is derived from an individual’s personal knowledge. Therefore shared knowledge was first personal knowledge before it became shared knowledge. Shared knowledge is the knowledge that is available to everyone it is knowledge that “we” all know. Personal knowledge is knowledge that is personal to an individual it is knowledge that “I” know. History can only be counted as history because the knowledge of history is shared but if the individual’s knowledge didn’t make…

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    intertwined with prosperity. Eighner's experience in both worlds of living, upon which to criticize and reflect allows him to decisively teach to the audience of true necessity, employ multiple povs unjustified haves and have-nots, and the profound intuition it lends…

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    Nathanial Hawthorne’s “The Birth Mark.” In each of these literary works, it is implied that intellectual knowledge – that is knowledge that comes from the observation of outward, physical appearances – is not what is real. True knowledge comes from intuition and the unseen. Power in each of these literary works is presented as something that is beyond individual will. It rests outside of each person and stems from the collective life experience. In each of the works,…

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    that it was no longer sufficient to merely stand behind my passive, yet well-intentioned words. One is now required to take willful action to change a situation in favor of the morally correct. I have chosen to believe that acting on empathetic intuition over factual reasoning, demonstrating feats that surpass the constricting definition of civil disobedience as part of our civic responsibilities,…

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    Annotated Mona Lisa Essay

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    My selected style is Romanticism, this style is more based on the artist emotion, feelings, and passion. According to the book “The Annotated Mona Lisa” both writers and artist chose emotion and intuition over rational objectivity. Violent scenes, nude scenes, and scenes where there is chaos are some examples of a Romanticism painting. In some of the Romanticism painting’s you could notice the colors are unrestrained, deep, and have rich shades, the techniques used are quick brushstrokes, strong…

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    I feel inspired and motivated after watching this documentary. Food Matters investigates the universe of Orthomolecular Medicine and how it thinks about to conventional Modern Medicine. The documentary starts with discussing how our nourishment ventures numerous miles before getting to its final destination and when we purchase it is no less than a week old. The freshness of our sustenance have radically changed all through time. The nutritionist also talks about the issue of soil and how it…

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    True North – Anna Darlene Edmondson “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him (Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV). Say you were lost in dense-wooded timberland. Probably, your own intuitions of ‘true north’ would misguide you (like my GPS). It’s continuously recalculating … and sadly, I miss appointments. Ugh! Truth is, I depend on technology and believe it’s faultless. Yet, glitches abound with nearly everything man creates. However,…

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    they find truth in things without have solid evidence or reasoning behind it. They believe that if it is truth to them then it must be true because truth lies from within. Humans will interpret the truth how each individual sees it in there out intuition. Humans will know what it the truth because they examine it themselves and arrive at their own opinion of truth. Truth lies within each individual in society and can be found through their own thoughts. In Margaret Fuller’s piece “The Great…

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    Malcolm Gladwell in the third chapter to Outliers, "The Trouble with Geniuses, Part 1", argues that those who have higher IQ (whom those have the higher intelligences than the average IQ standardization bar), are the onlookers for society, "[for] we must look for production of leaders who advance science, art, government, education and social welfare generally.(75)", Lewis Terman said to believe in. Gladwell supports his arguement by demonstrating both examples from given IQ test in the…

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