Ontology

Envision a world where we couldn’t see anybody's physical appearance, no skin, bone or organ. What would we see internally beneath the barriers of flesh and cell? Would we see an ego different from ourselves or a substance exactly the same? How can we know the answer to this question when we can’t even assess the differences because we are so attached to our own egos. In Homer’s, The Odyssey, Odysseus embarks on a journey from the city of Troy, back to his home in Ithaca. Odysseus consistently…

In a world filled with lies and illusions, reality is continually concealed with appearance. Reality is the state of things as they truly are; this includes everything that is and has been, without any hidden truths. It is the opposite of appearance which is the state of things as they seem and not their authentic form. Most things appear to be a certain way when in truth, they are different. It blinds people into thinking that things are different from their actual reality, making them…

Like the space Derrida speaks of in his notion of text, Quentin’s section draws us into a space where there are no boundaries between the real and the fictive, the present and the past, and the external world and the internal world of mind. Derrida’s reading of Blanchot’s “La folie du jour” reveals how the text eclipses the clear divisions between what comes before and what after and what is in the text and what outside, by the narrative’s self-repeating process. Incidentally, Derrida argues…

Descartes’s dualism was a critical development in the philosophy of minds. The goal of this paper will be examining this theory, its strengths, and its weaknesses. First, we will summarize Descartes’s classical dualism, which will be the version of dualism referred to throughout the rest of the paper. Second, we will examine several arguments in favor of classical dualism. The third segment of this essay will discuss some of the challenges and counter arguments to dualism. Then, concluding with…

One can only access the viewpoint of another from within one’s own horizon. This relationship between ‘one’ and ‘the other’ which, in Gadamer’s philosophy makes understanding possible, is what has been examined by other philosophers as well. Emmanuel Levinas considered this relationship known by him as ‘the face-to-face’ relationship, as “the heart of life [that] is found not in knowing yourself but in your relation to the Other.” (Theory for Performance Studies, Philip Auslander, p. 129) The…

In order to understand the mechanical character of Descartes’ physiology it is necessary to establish, firstly, that he considers the human body as a material substance, different from the soul, though connected with it. This distinction has been called classically ‘dualism’. In his Meditations, Descartes argues that the meditator recognizes herself as a thinking substance: ‘But what am I? A thing that thinks. What is that? A thing that doubts, understands, affirms, denies, is willing, is…

Larkin and Eliot vary in their view on time. For Eliot, time is ceaselessly present from the spiritual point of view. Through time, time is conquered .But Larkin believes that changes are predictable in time’s domain and the past is past and is never to be regained, “time and time over. “To the constant flux of time, man is in thrall and a victim” (Larkin, CP).So time is not an abstract idea but has “eroding agents” to bring out ill-effects in life. So time conquers man in its eternal flux.…

In Till We Have Faces, a novel, C. S. Lewis addresses multiple different themes, one of these being the nature of faith and doubt. Characters throughout this book are struggling with the existence of the gods, and their relationship with humans. C.S. Lewis expands upon this struggle by creating different situations showing the readers that faith’s nature provides comfort and spiritual wisdom while doubt leads to manipulation and denial. While writing this novel, C. S. Lewis used the Bible to…

People have a belief that the pyramid with the eye symbolizes the illuminati. But is that true? The truth is the pyramid doesn’t mean the illuminati. The illuminati is just a theory to scare people but it actually means strength and duration. The pyramid with the eye above it haves good meanings to it. The 13 steps on the pyramid means the 13 colonies and they put the eye to symbolize that god is always watching. The pyramid was designed by William Barton. William had the idea to add thirteen…

Before St. Thomas Aquinas gave an answer to the question whether God exists in things, he, in I.7, answered that God is limitless. The characteristic of limitless things is to exist with an unending amount everywhere in everything . Then he asks about God’s existence in things, I.8.1-4. He is trying to answer the questions: Is God in all things, Is God everywhere, Is God everywhere by essence, power, and presence, and Does it belong to God alone to be everywhere? These questions and their…