No Definite Answer

Tolstoy admits that during this dark period of this life he considered suicide many times as a possible answer to the pain he was feeling. I felt that Tolstoy was making a claim that due to his loss of faith in religion early on that it in some way made him an expert on the subject. He claimed that death was the defining moment in life and that in knowing…

Skepticism of Other Minds Some would say to justify a belief in other minds one would need to have the ability to view the subjective experience of another person. But I argue that you can’t prove that other consciousness exist, because you can’t see them. And even if in the future we were able to see another person’s subjective experience, we wouldn’t be able to tell that that being was originally conscious to begin with; you would only have the idea that there is a possibility it exists. Many…

community for their tradition. I further explained that I was not necessarily there for faith based conversation, but just to have a conversation of his choice. This was when he began telling me his story and asked questions that I did not have definite answers for. When the conversation started while getting to know me I felt sad for him because he told me through other admissions this was the first where anyone came to talk with him from the Chaplaincy department. I apologized for the…

Theodicy In order to take some type of direction in an attempt to answer this question of why bad things happen to good people we first have to look into the concept of theodicy. In this concept, there is an attempt to prove there is divine goodness regardless of what evil may be in the world. As you can imagine there a various views and ideas on ways to show proof of this idea. The information I will use in an attempt to understand this idea is written in the article Thoedicy? written by…

all things. This must mean that prayer cannot change or determine the future, because what is meant to happen is inevitable and nothing can alter the future. Boethius mentions prayer a few times. He states, “...even those things that do not have a definite and certain outcome can be nevertheless known by the mind of God in its simplicity and loftiness and unboundedness” (167). Although humans are incapable of knowing every outcome of each situation, God knows what is meant to happen because he…

It is human nature to seek answers to the overarching questions of morality and the cause of evil in our world. Unfortunately there are no answers to such questions, only plausible explanations and conjectures. In If this is A Man, Primo Levi posed questions and issues, such as whether morality is absolute or dynamic based on a person’s circumstances. Levi knew that these questions were unanswerable and so chose not to frivolously attempt to provide definite explanations. Instead, Levi…

theory or method of tracking criminality can truly be used without there being lots of discrepancies. I think that the reason that these theories of facial features being indicators of criminality keeps coming up is because their is still no definite answer as to what causes someone to be a criminal. Whether it be their genetic makeup or environmental influences. I think that fact that nothing has been confirmed or discredited causes people to want to still know, and by doing the research and…

When you are posed with the question if human beings are inherently good or bad, you often find yourself floundered to find an answer. It is a fundamental question with no definite answer, only your conception of situations and human beings. People often look for the bad in the world, they point out the negative things instead of the positive because that’s what people want to hear about. The positive things are overlooked, which concludes with people believing that humans are inherently bad.…

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Complex concepts can have a variety of interpretations and are difficult to pinpoint because there is no definite answer. Many people believe that an American is just a U.S. citizen, but it is more complex than that. An American is a U.S. citizen or immigrant who has rights, works hard, and is progressive. To begin with, an American has a constitutional federal republic as its government. This form of government protects certain rights for its citizens. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s speech, “From the…