Philosophical realism

mindset to that of Pococuranté, turning away from rhetoric in their attempt to find happiness, or at least contentment” (Thomas 66). When Candide’s meeting with Pococurante shows him the value of realism over rhetoric, he begins the process of true conversion to realism. Thomas wisely equates realism to happiness, which is the same conclusion Candide ultimately draws in this scene. In the same meeting, Pococurante declares that “regardless of the praises lavished upon them, [Raphael’s…

how men and women in society are organized in a way to bring about justice, equality, and progress is the essence of the modern evolution (Dorsey 2011). Immanuel Kant wrote that the human mind evolves through three stages, which are abstract (philosophical), fictitious (religious), and scientific (categorical imperative), as a result of analysis that is critical, rationalistic, and analytic (Galleguillos 2014). Kantianism philosophy began the combination of metaphysics and positivism in the…

then, is real in that it influences action. It is absurd, then, to assert that an abstract principle like justice does not exist while at the same time admitting that it influences people; its influence is proof of its existence. Beyond this philosophical proof for the existence of justice, Athens’ own cries for justice further demonstrate the relevance and importance of questions of justice between those of unequal…

details of the library. ”The Aleph” written by the same writer also has no change, this short story also talk about the worldview that the Aleph is the universal. These two short stories are philosophical novels between the unreal and reality. “House taken over” which written by Julio Cortazar also uses the realism way to creative a fictional imagination world. “The Continuity of Parks” written by Julio Cortazar influences the judgment of unreal and reality, and it is also the transition from…

moral standpoint. Machiavelli begins to delve into the specific types of armed forces and which should be employed by a ruler. Although the specific advice is firmly applicable to his specific point in time, similar to Clausewitz’s On War, the philosophical choices between mercenary and native forces are important. Machiavelli opposed mercenary forces because they are disloyal…

Jean Piaget was born on the ninth august 1896 in Switzerland. Piaget studied biology at Neuchatel University, graduating at the age of twenty, earning a PhD in the study of the mollusc two years afterwards (Davenport, 1994). In 1920, Piaget contributed to the standardisation of intelligence test procedures where he noticed that five-year old children seemed to give similar wrong answers to certain questions. This led to Piaget’s belief that “children are not just ‘little adults’ in the way they…

In its ability to both challenge and confront previous conventions of the Hollywood war film genre, Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket (1987) is a provocative and philosophical cinematic experience. Starring R. Lee Ermey as the diabolical Sergeant Hartman, Vincent D’Onofrio as the childlike and naïve private Lawrence or “Gomer Pyle” and Matthew Modine as the sarcastic Private Davis or “Joker”; the film portrays the gruelling experience of the Vietnam war through the perspective of new U.S…

that while the empirical world exists in space and time, things in themselves are neither spatial nor temporal. Transcendental idealism has wide-ranging consequences. On the positive side, Kant takes transcendental idealism to entail an “empirical realism,” according to which humans have direct epistemic access to the natural, physical world and can even have a priori cognition of basic features of all possible experienceable objects. On the negative side, Kant argues that we cannot have…

responsibility. That is why the strategy should be a key issue to define critical success factors. The point of this article is to describe the impact of culture on the strategic preferences in international markets. Zhang (2002) states that cultural realism could be described through the history of heroes of Chinese literature, where he compares mythological heroes with those who really existed in history. In his opinion virtue and violence could be ideal instruments of ancient Chinese…

A Brief Synopses/ Introduction In the Ted Talks video Optical Illusion, Beau Lotto started his presentation with a game of two panels (a white panel and a black panel) containing colored dots. By engaging the audience to identify the colors that where exactly the same on both panels, he explained that the purpose of the game was for the audience to see the world as it is. Next, Beau Lotto describes why color is important and how we use color to make sense of sensory information. First, he uses…