Jaegwon Kim

When they eventually get over the overwhelming new freedoms, their lifestyle will be changed dramatically and forever. On the flip side, the people who remain in North Korea continue to follow the rules and regulations of Kim Jung Un, the North Korean Dictator. These rules include only being able to get one of the ten approved haircuts they offer for men. Citizens are not allowed to practice a religion, and the government chooses where you live, similar to Districts in…

The Korean War was a military clash between the Republic of Korea, supported by the United Nations, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, strengthened by the People's Republic of China, with military material guide from the Soviet Union. The war was a significance of the physical division of Korea by an assention of the successful Allies at the finish of the Pacific War toward the end of World War II. ((Boose, Donald W) The inability to hold free races all through the Korean Peninsula…

The future is conquered by mysterious unknowns. In a world that lives in the present, the future's outcome holds the scariest time for change that will shape society either for better or for worse. George Orwell's novel, 1984, portrays a dystopian society managed by a totalitarian government that forces their ideologies on their people in a (mainly) psychological demeanor. Essentially, it is a novel that hints at a pessimistic future that will unravel, given contemporary of society's reliance…

As portrayed in the movie The Interview, North Korea seems like a horrible place full of fake grocery stores and a cruel leader. In reality, North Korea’s situation is much worse. The average North Korean goes through many obstacles every day and has limited access to resources that citizens of other countries would have an abundant amount of access to. Through the continued abuse of human rights, no outside countries seem to believe that they should interfere with how North Korea treats its…

South Korea, July 21st 1950. “I remember the climate of South Korea offset the recruits including me. It was difficult to get used to but we did.” said Frederick leier. Talking about the climate struggles many of soldiers felt when they went to Korea.North Korea and South Korea were at war for the boarders of the country. Frederick Leier (age:17) at the time was defending South Korea from the North Korean troops that entered their boundary lines at the 38th parallel. Many veterans who served…

Korea. In the house, no pictures of family are allowed, only pictures of the leader. In addition to loving their leader, no cell phones or internet allowed. Newspaper and television are controlled by the state. There are books, but they are written by Kim Il Sung (founder of North Korea). Hospital…

Solution focused brief therapy was developed by Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg along with their colleagues in the late 1970s to the early 1980s in Milwaukee, Wisconsin(Solutionfocusednet,2016). As the name suggests Solution focused brief therapy is solution focused, goal directed and future focused (Solutionfocusednet, 2016). The solution focused approached was developed in an inner city outpatient setting where clients were accepted without any prior screening (Solutionfocusednet, 2016).…

In this paper I will be explaining and evaluating Argument 2, on page 36 of Jaegwon Kim's Philosophy of Mind, which supports Cartesian substance dualism. This argument, which I call the argument of transparency, attempts to support the first major tenant of Cartesian substance dualism: There are substances of two fundamentally different kinds in the world, mental substances and material substances—or minds and bodies. The essential nature of a mind is to think, be conscious, and engage in other…

Emergentism Proyash Sarkar Emergentism refers to a wide range of theories—right from dualism to physicalism. We shall see below that the basic contention of emergentism is neutral about the dualism/physicalism debate. Roughly speaking, emergentism about the mental is the claim that the mental is an emergent property of the physical. It arises out of the basal property, i.e. the physical, yet retains its independence, in the sense that it has its independent causal power. Thus the mental has its…