Pragmatism

Machiavellian is a term that the greater population associates with deceit, manipulation, and hunger for power. In contrast, the word Socratic illustrates a nature that is reliant on aconstant questioning of society to bring about knowledge that the entire world should understand. Niccolo Machiavelli gives his definition of what a successful ruler would look like in his renowned work, The Prince and readers can infer Socrates notions towards leadership in Plato’s works, Apology and Crito.…

Thomas Jefferson, a crucial American leader, set the standard of America as a nation politically, economically, and socially. He helped contribute the United States of America to be an independent nation by counting the two party system, land purchases and explorations, the establishment of religious freedom, and the foundation of the Declaration of Independence. “The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.” Jefferson once said that he believed our liberty is extracted from God…

IST, Science, and Beliefs Dennett now proceeds to place IST within cognitive science. He believes that IST could lead to some unification amongst the sciences, due to its ability to properly sort a number of thorny philosophical issues (such as if the system really has beliefs). By example, he notes how intentional systems regard beliefs. IST states that beliefs serve no purpose unless those beliefs are mostly true. A system containing many false beliefs fails to even be conceivable. An…

Teaching has always been my calling. Ever since my first week of kindergarten, I knew that teaching would be my chosen path. There is something about the feeling of standing in front of a classroom and educating those who would later lead the way in the future that satisfies me. In this paper, I will discuss what I have learned about the community and culture of my host school and how that has shaped my beginning identity as a teacher by referring to my reflective first field experience…

Ralph Waldo Emerson’s The Poet remains one of the most influential works in American Critical Theory. It is an essay so finely wrought and intricately layered that it borders at times on unapproachable, not because of the difficulty of its theory (though this is a serious work of high academia), but because of its vast spread. Arguments are dislocated across the work, conclusions are divorced from their premises by pages. Yet the work never strays to the ecstatic fervor of Nature and is salvaged…

Step 1-Meyers-Briggs Personality ENTJ Extraversion From the results of the Meyers-Briggs Personality test it stated that I was “moderately more preferable to being an extrovert than being an introvert by a margin of 33%” (Jung Typology Test; http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp, 1998). The people who demonstrate personalities of being an extravert are more inclined to be dealing with the world on the outside of their persona than dealing with the world inside their being, or an…

Machiavelli's Approach to order through the lens of Disorder: The Modern World in Terms of Chaos and Order Order and disorder are two terms used to describe two different dimensions of life. They are totally opposite to each other in terms of meaning. Also, sometimes one of them becomes the cause for the emergence of the other one. Disorder, according to Cambridge Dictionary, is “a state of untidiness or lack of organization” (cambrdige). This means that anything that doesn’t have an order or…

money, you will be happier, you can literally buy happiness to yourself. How about religion and spirituality? Having faith in something or someone? That can potentially make people happy. What about the concept of leisure time value, freedom, or pragmatism, the idea of self-policing? There are so much more values and traits…

Over the course of history, various developments took place which led to the formation of sociology. The Enlightenment was a period of philosophical enquiry starting around the sixteenth century with the rise of the scientific method. Before this society and the nature of reality had largely been governed by the teachings of the church and was under state control. The enlightenment was based on rationalist principles, values of empiricism and the belief that the world could be better understood…

Roman civilization.” Both More and Machiavelli reflect Renaissance humanism through their use of classical sources and how they use these sources in their efforts to suggest reform within society. The Prince reflects Renaissance humanism through Machiavelli’s various examples of princes from the classical era wise and unwise conduct. The Prince also reflects humanism as Machiavelli was writing during a period when humanism was the dominant intellectual force of the era. The dominance of…