Presupposition

Consider the possibility that the cognizant part of a bat is the same than the awareness of a person. Why must we stick to Nagels presupposition that being a bat is not the same as being a human. This does not imply that a bat 's insight is on a similar level of a human or that bats can think at all or that bats can even have an indistinguishable encounters from a man. I am trying to say…

Part of this chapter focuses on the non-Christian and their relation to their own presuppositions and the real world. This is described using two poles to describe the unbelieving mind and heart, which are the “dilemma pole” and the “diversion pole”. The former pole “expresses the logic of the fact that the more consistent people are to their…

“Nature is the national past, the basis of the national identity, an infinite source of moral regeneration, and guarantee of the democratic constitution,” (Opie 199). The picturesque and sublime aesthetic approaches to landscapes became foundational in American culture. America in its entirety is a melting pot, the culmination of other cultures into one country. However, Europeans were among the first to develop and colonize North America. Consequently, many European artists, poets, writers, and…

Is the use of Prozac a psychiatric issue or a deeper existential problem? The above analyzed authors (except obviously Elliott) take it as a psychiatric phenomenon. They all take for granted the following presupposition: whenever one gets alienated from ones true self, feels inauthentic, not satisfied with herself or her life or she wants to fulfill herself or have a better life, she ought to change this condition. The question then becomes whether Prozac or psychofarmaceuticals in general are…

My ideology provides a deeper look into the lens of Parker Palmer what I discern is that, the realities of the manner is, we cannot have peace on this earth without the components of conflict futhrrmore, we must develop an intimate relationship with conflict to grasp the full understanding as to, why it occurred.[1] Palmer illustrates the reality that a dysfunctional system and conflict can not be supported by peacemaking solutions.[2] We must face the conflict head on and engage integrity and…

nonreligious man and how those variations relate to the ideas within sacred space and profane space. Eliade defines a nonreligious man as one “who rejects the sacrality of the world, who accepts a profane existence, divested of all religious presuppositions” (Eliade 23). In doing so, these types of man live in a world that preserves profane space, one of no importance: a world that is shapeless and unstructured with an unlimited number of “neutral places” accessible (Eliade 24). In…

phenomenologists in physics. Atomist Boltzmann (1900)’s guide to discovery argument asserts that phenomenology is inferior to atomism in physics because the presupposition of atoms provides a guide to discovering new equations that could capture physical phenomena more accurately (as cited in Chemero, 2000). In comparison, phenomenological physic excludes presuppositions of the underlying structure of beings, making it a fact-dependent and ad hoc approach that provides no guide to discovery…

our living God who triumphs bravely over the death. From this light, we could understand that this faith is not experiential or emotional, rather God makes us understandable to believe through our mind. Thus, Calvin explains this supernatural presupposition of faith like this ‘our faith is not real unless it enables us to stand calmly in the presence of God.’ God made us to be able to confess He is our Lord and He is God who defeats the death, and we can repent our original sin based on God’s…

America especially has struggles with reconciling “All men are created equal” with the injustice that has been done in the past, and how it still affects us today. Racism begins with a prejudice presupposition that ones racial/ethnic group is of a lower stature than ones own race. Which justifies the acts of oppression and feelings of superiority, and though we now longer have institutional racism, the system and aftermath of it are still felt, and propagated today, thus furthering the need for…

A.J. Ayer is an emotivist, which is a non-cognitivist meta-ethical position which classifies all ethical statements as meaningless displays of emotion. Meta-ethics, not to be confused with normative ethics, is meant to establish whether morality truly exists, and not which particular ethical statements are true. According to Ayer, there are no such things as genuine ethical judgements, rather, all ethical judgments are distinguished as pseudo-judgements (i.e. judgements that sound like they make…