Rationality

Often, we as people, are faced with a difficult question: is it morally right or morally wrong to eat meat. Alastair Norcross discusses this in his article, “Puppies, Pigs, and People: Eating Meat and Marginal Cases.” In this article Norcross tells the story of Fred, a man who lost the ability to taste chocolate due to a car accident. He sets up twenty-six cages of puppies, and leads them to live stress induced lives. This is because when the puppies are under stress, they produce a hormone…

Firstly, the historiography of the subject will be examined. The initial idea that large shifts in attitudes towards the supernatural resulting from the Reformation were presented by Max Weber in his work The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Weber argued that the Reformation was part of some great process, where Protestantism rejected sacramental magic and instead brought about a rationalisation and intellectualisation of the world where incorporeal forces no longer existed in…

Introduction Deontology and Utilitarianism are ethical theories that classify what a moral action is and what makes that action moral. Using these theories, one can be assisted in deciding whether they are committing moral or immoral actions. Looking at Absolute poverty in third world countries, it is hard to determine whether we have a moral obligation to help lessen the suffering occurring there. However, by using the two ethical theories given by Mill and Kant as aids, it is clear that…

Satire Within Monty Python and the Holy Grail The film Monty Python and the Holy Grail tells the story of King Arthur of Camelot who gathers his knights of the Round Table and leads them on a quest to find the Holy Grail. The knights eventually find the castle that houses the Holy Grail, but once there, they are stopped by French soldiers and the police. In the scene “Witch Village,” a mob of villagers has captured a woman and has dressed her up like a witch. The villagers are convinced that she…

Roosevelt and Lindbergh’s views were on opposite end of the debate. Kennedy views were more in the middle. Lindbergh was very short sighted. He failed to see that eventually the U.S. would have to face Hitler’s war machine and the axis powers were gaining strength with each passing day. They gained labor and resources as they conquered new territory. If invaded, Americans might face millions of troops, planes, and tanks make in Asia, Africa, Europe, and Australia. It made sense to help…

Victorian Decadence In, “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” by Robert Louis Stevenson consists of Victorian Decadence or Fin de Siècle aspects throughout the story. One aspect of Victorian Decadence is the anti-Romantic belief in original sin and in the fallen man and nature. The omnipresence of evil, lack of health, balance, innocence, and the grotesque can belong with the first aspect, also. An example in “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” would be Mr. Utter son’s interest in the fallen man…

where children care for children and they learn social skills from their siblings (Lamb, Sternberg, Hwang, & Broberg, 1992). Ben’s children living in the wilderness put them in a unique position to only understand their own social behaviors and cues among each other. Another common practice in Cameroon is that at an age as young as three years old children start to assume domestic chores, taking care of the animals and fetching fire wood (Lamb, Sternberg, Hwang, & Broberg, 1992). Ben starts…

Shakespeare’s use of ambiguity causes Othello’s climax to be ambiguous. The protagonist determines what the climax is, which is debatable because either Othello or Iago can be the protagonist. Although there is ambiguity regarding the climax, Shakespeare provides salient evidence for the climax. When Iago is the protagonist, he manipulates Othello until he finally causes Othello’s catastrophe. Othello and Iago are in open opposition when Iago asks him, regarding Cassio and Desdemona, “What if I…

The journey of the free man symbolizes education and the acquisition of knowledge that allows one to break through the barriers of ignorance and finally reach the light(s) of rationality and intellect. Plato’s allegory of the cave and Descartes’ systematic skepticism are intrinsically very much alike. Their concern for the deceptive nature of sense perception and the outside world is exemplified by Plato’s emphasis on the sense…

The_Donald is one of Reddit’s most infamous and controversial subreddits, a representation of rampant hatred and bigotry to some and serving as a bastion against globalism and postmodernism to others. Difficulty arises when describing it, as depending on your political ideology, prominent news source, and familiarity with internet culture, it can be many different things. The dominant view on Reddit, spearheaded by subreddits such as MarchAgainstTrump and r/esist, rests upon the rejection of…