Reason

they feel that they are above the person whom they are speaking about. According to the quote, George said it himself, he felt “God damn smart,” George was so selfish to Lennie, he didn’t even care how hurt Lennie will be later on. I feel as if,the reason why George talks about Lennie is because,…

Plato was one of the illustrious students of Socrates and as a sophist he wrote beautiful dialogues that were and have been admired by many scholars and people of all works of life. As a matter of fact, Platonic dialogues express his insightful philosophical views and teachings on different doctrines and concepts. It is quite evident from Plato’s writings that he presented his arguments in a conversational structure, thus enabling him to examine each concept and doctrine from different angles or…

In society, there always seems to be a need for humanity; for the ability for one human being to have compassion for another. Time and time again, forces have been trying to take that away from the people in order to establish a sense of order and control. Humans were created with the capacity to care because it helps establish what is right and what is wrong. There have been times when this “human trait” has been manipulated in order to serve an agenda and when that happens, terror, and the…

In Once Upon a Time on Anatolia, a film directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, we see many motifs that indicate true human nature. Viewers are moved by the realness of the characters and how they can relate to us. From men being distracted by women, to showing the basic human instinct of self-preservation, this film shows us that no matter where you come from, everyone is similar. This movie expresses many aspects of human emotion and human nature, some more outright than others. One of the…

In continuing his explanation, Tinder points to one of the masters of this mode of thinking: Thomas Hobbes. According to Hobbesian philosophy, human life is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short” and ones essence is that of eternal war against all others (Tinder 27). Hobbes breaks his understanding of human nature down further by explaining that there is a psychological and ontological level of estrangement (Tinder 27-28). The psychological level of ones estrangement exists because all…

Session three to six mainly discuss four steps about how people receive information, re-produce and process information and use this information to make decisions. The four steps refer to recognize humanity, self-identity, sense-making and decision-making, arranging from inner to outside, from general to specific. They are running independently, instead, different layers interconnect with each other, they jointly form a successive progress of dealing with information around people. Furthermore,…

In Plotinus’s first ennead, On Beauty, he attempts to define the true meaning of and discover the origin of beauty. What exactly is the source of beauty? How is it that such different things can all be considered to be beautiful? What is it that makes a human being beautiful, and how is it defined? Through an analysis of past claims of understanding beauty, Plotinus offers up his own unique view on what exactly, if anything, defines it. Plotinus first calls attention to the diversity among…

science class. It have been proven that the world is round and not flat. We used to think the Earth is flat and that is because we didn’t have anything to tell us it wasn’t. People assumed it was because when you are on Earth it seems flat. That is one reason people still think it is flat, but that is very childish in my opinion. We have satellite imagery that shows the Earth is a sphere and not a disk. We are not the center of the universe, we are one of the few planets that supports life, but…

The author of “In Defense of Superstitions,” believes that should not be absolutely debased because it fulfills a cultural function and is related between science and religion. Since science looks for rational, factual explanations and religion seeks answers through the higher power, superstition is in between those two categories. Both show a common human concern with the supernatural and the desire to understand and influence it. The author believes that not all superstitions are silly. The…

The ease of acquiring knowledge in this digital age one ponders whether that further develops or hinders the art of human thinking. There appears to be an overreliance on other sources than our own knowledge with an automatic go to google as a preference rather than thinking for yourself and a reluctance to problem solve or in creating the knowledge Beslisle (2006, p.58) defines digital knowledge as a new condition of knowledge which can be processed and transformed by technological tools.…