Philosophical concepts

Copy Principle: Prompt One David Hume, in the book, “An Enquiry of Human Understanding,” denies the thought that ideas are innate or come from within us. Instead, he claims that all ideas, when they are first experienced are derived or duplicated from simple impressions or world experiences. This is known as Hume’s Copy Principle. To prove his hypothesis, Hume divides his argument into two sections. One being that complex ideas can be broken down into simple ideas and followed back to their…

René Descartes first builds up his position in Meditations on First Philosophy by starting with pushing aside all that we know and learned as it was based on the empiricist thinking, that our beliefs are to be based on our sense experience, which is the perceived foundation of how everyone thinks. This way of thinking, according to Descartes, should be abandon as it is a defective way to do so when learning. Even thinking by numbers and figures are not a good foundation when gaining knowledge in…

Since the beginning of America, immigrants have played a key role in building American industry, economy, and society. Bringing cultures from across the globe, immigrants were and are essential to building the America of today. However, each immigrant is faced with the challenge of assimilating into American culture and specific communities within that culture. A community is a group of people who share common interests, ideas, traits, or circumstances, and ultimately accept all members of the…

In the History of Love, Leopold Gursky’s self-identity is lost and the cause of his sense of non-existence is due to all of the losses he has encountered in his life and with every loss he becomes less sure of his existence, resulting in his invisibility in the world. Krauss uses the motif of invisibility and self-identity to show how one can become invisible if he/she loses what makes them who they are, causing them to lose sense of themselves and their self-identities altogether, resulting in…

The play “Trifles” was written by playwright and actress, Susan Glaspell, and was first performed by the Provincetown Players at the Wharf Theatre in Provincetown, Massachusetts, on August 8, 1916. The setting of the play is in the house of Mr. and Mrs. Wright and opens with three men and two women entering it. There is uncompleted housework everywhere and it is obvious that someone left in a hurry or was taken unexpectedly. Among the three men are one of Mr. Wright’s neighbors, Mr. Hale, the…

possible by its capacity to have secrets and all human interaction involves what you know about the others as well as what you don’t know or that which remains a secret. Mead analyses his theory of the social self-dimension, which includes the concepts of the “self”, “me” and “I”. He stated the human-self can distinguish between the self and body. The…

An individual’s perception is made up of stacked lenses that alter the truth, which summarizes their own slice of reality. These lenses are experiences, and they can have major consequences to one’s quality of life. The experiences one buys and commoditize for status elude them the farthest away from the truth, and are the most spoiling for their character. Our money driven society feeds these illusions to individuals with a bias that they do not necessarily understand and purposefully…

Insecurities and the lack of confidence are more destructive than they may seem at first glance; they both gradually rot away at individual’s sense of self, and poison their thoughts and emotions with negativity. However harmful and seemingly uncontrollable these states may be, constant perseverance can render them harmless. In A Separate Peace by John Knowles, Gene overcomes his overpowering insecurities, smallness of self, and jealousy in a deadly struggle against his own twisted human nature…

Buy Experiences, Not Things James Hamblin’s article”Buy Experience, Not things” elucidates how instead of buying something to make people happy, experiences are what contributes to true happiness because people cherish moment to moment memories, they live in anticipation, and they are less likely to measure the value of their experiences by comparing them to those of others. Given the evidence, Hamblin first uses the point that happiness can be true by cherishing moment-to moment memories.…

LIFE BEFORE PROTANDIM JIM’S TESITMONY Let me begin at June 28th, 2013 (my first heart attack) and I’ll expedite my life to March 9th, 2015 (my second heart attack). Going on 30 years I contracted this horrible disease called Diabetes; 12 years ago I had a stroke in my right optical cord – leaving me partially blind; and 6 years ago I began having seizures after learning I deal with Epilepsy. Around that same time, I found myself to deal with Sleep Apnea. I still deal with an equilibrium issue…