Reflection on Blink “The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.” This book talks about how our ability make decisions and how our ability to take good decisions should not be dependent on the information or knowledge that we have on the topic. He explains how there is an idea that carefully planned and considered ideas are better and get better results but he says that spontaneous decisions are…
In the following short essay, I define and analyze reflective equilibrium, generally, as well as narrow and wide reflective equilibrium, specifically. I then defend reflective equilibrium from two potential critiques in an attempt to prove that it is a proper ethical method. In general, reflective equilibrium is a method in which an individual works back and forth among their considered judgements, principles, and theoretical considerations about broad or specific cases, revising these…
For example, many people in love credit their intuition as the reason for their success. One person knew that they needed to talk to a particular person, so they did. They didn't question why they should talk to that person, they just knew they had to and followed their gut feeling. For most people, they ended up talking to the person that they would be with for the rest of their life. For others, they talked to someone who knew the person they would be with for the rest of their lives. The…
you fail to plan, then you plan to fail” (Bauml, 2016) and designing effective lesson plans can be extremely challenging. However, by utilizing a grade-level team collaboration approach that incorporates all facets of integrative thinking such are intuition, analysis and creativity as well as adding the use of opposable mind strategies, the task can be much more manageable and valuable in producing greater results from the intended objects of the lesson plan. First, we must define what it means…
the world a better place by saving the last snipe and fighting off the poacher. In today’s society, poaching and killing endangered species is illegal, but people still do it. If this does not change, many animals will go extinct. Another scene of intuition/idealism is when we see Carl and Ellie’s special connection. An example of this was their passion for adventure and travel. They had always wanted to travel to the South African rain forest but never got to go because Ellie got sick and died.…
episode of Survivor, just like it is in our daily lives and workplaces. Decision making, in Survivor, has some similarities to it with our textbook and specifically chapter 10. One of the main concepts of chapter 10 is the ideas of “groupthink” and intuition.…
In his final Remark to Sect. 13 of the Prolegomena, Kant distinguishes his transcendental idealism from the “empirical idealism of Descartes”. His paper intends to briefly account for both of these forms of idealism and subsequently investigate why Kant went to such great lengths to distance himself from Descartes's project. Descartes's “empirical idealism” In 'Meditations on First Philosophy', Descartes argues that the existence of objects in space outside of us cannot be proven by recourse…
judgment). The third one is INFJ (introversion, intuition, feeling, and judgment); the N stands for intuition. The fourth is the INTJ (introversion, intuition, thinking, and judgment). The Fifth is the ISTP (introversion, sensing, thinking, and perception). The sixth is the ISFP (introversion, sensing, feeling, and perception). The Seventh one is the INFP (introversion, Intuition, feeling, and perception). The eighth one is the INTP (introversion, Intuition, thinking, and perception). The…
Romanticism is seen through the ideas of philosophers, through artists and their works, and through poems and novels of the era. The characteristics of Romanticism include a power of nature and the supernatural world, the emphasis on emotion and intuition, the embracing of the value of the individual, as well as the rejection of the eighteenth century rules of criticism. The first characteristic of romanticism includes the power of nature and the supernatural world. Many artists throughout this…
Life with More Meaning Give up conformity and the idea of life, everyone can live without it. Transcendentalism is just that. Transcendentalism is believing that God, ourselves, and the universe are in a relation with nature. Two authors that represent transcendentalism are Ralph Emerson and Henry Thoreau. Ralph Emerson is known as the father of transcendentalism, and is a graduate of Harvard. His first real work is the essay titled Nature. He became a teacher but was kicked out of the school…