Reason

People take risks daily; going out of their comfort zones, because they believe in their heart what can be. How will ‘first’ times ever come to be if everyone always hides away their confidence, due to the mocking of others. In history, the main reason you’d have any rights were if you were a straight, white male. Over the years, people of all races, genders, and sexualities have gained confidence; steering them to earn the rights everyone has today. Without the will, and positive mind, there’s…

Joseph's mindset or feelings do not change he still has some major changes occurring. Such as when he lives with the protagonist, he is idolized by the "people tired of tyranny" as the protagonist calls them. (Hess 252) He is idolized for the sole reason he had been kept prisoner for so long. this makes Pierre Joseph upset “Come, bear with me. I am angered by such savagery. As for the honor those men meant to give me, you must see my point: they would have cheered a roasted pig as heartily…

whatever we do is from and for a reason. Wood formulates this as follows: It ought to be utterly uncontroversial that whatever we do, we should act for reasons, and therefore from a reason. It is a virtual tautology to say that what we should do is the same as whatever there are the best (or at least good enough) reasons to do, and that we should do it for (or from) those reasons. In the light of this paragraph, the P1 might be unfolded into two sub-propositions: first, reason is the source of…

There are two big problems, the first problem is we fail to master nature because of the human condition. It is indicated that we hold back because we are weak. The second problem is some people allow emotion to dominate their reason. Descartes explained that the problem is people have been misled and deceived by superstition for example like religion with irrationality, tradition, and authority for example like church. As a result, Descartes explained that too often what people…

What is love? Most people ask this question, but there is never a right answer. Some people say love is blind, some say love is pure, and some say love is an unconditional commitment to an imperfect person. Love can be express in many ways, but true love cannot be explain through words. This was proven by the characters in the play “Twelfth Night” by William Shakespeare. “Twelfth Night” is the story of Viola a shipwrecked survivor who disguise herself as a man named Cesario, for protection and…

understanding the situations. Also, it implies that all outside forces are ineffective in trying to persuade the real actual conscience of a person. This agrees with the idea of rationalism, which is defined as the belief that "we have to rely on reason itself as the basis for determining whether our opinions are justified true beliefs." It's clear that this is what Harper Lee had in mind when she wrote her novel To Kill A Mockingbird. This has correlation with the ideas of philosopher Spinoza,…

“Rationalism is the belief that at least some knowledge about reality can be acquired through reason, independently of sense experience.”. Rationalism was a philosophical movement that appeared around 500 BC and is often described as one of the most important theories of philosophy. It consist of three main basic claims: The Intuition/Deduction Thesis, The Innate Knowledge Thesis and the The Innate Concept Thesis. For a philosopher to claim himself as a rationalist, he has to apply at least one…

realm between reason and emotion and how they can either influence eachother, contradict one another, or both. Hamlet seems to be repeadtly driven by emotion, like when he says to Horatio he will follow the ghost, “Why, what should be the fear?/I do not set my life at a pin 's fee;/And for my soul, what can it do to that,/Being a thing immortal as itself?/It waves me forth again: I 'll follow it.” While it seems that Hamlet is attempting to be logical and is explaining the reasons why he should…

1) Compare the role of human reason in Oedipus the King with its role in Plato’s Crito Although providing similar framework and subject matter, Oedipus the King and Plato’s Crito explore the influence of the enchanted and disenchanted Greek world differently. This allows for a deep exploration of the role of human reasoning within the two texts. Both text’s as a whole generally explore the same main points of Greek reasoning, yet key differences among the themes of the disenchanted and…

theoretical wisdom is the superior of the two intellectual virtues: “It is, therefore, clear, that wisdom must be the most precise and perfect form of knowledge” (Aristotle Ethics, pg. 156). Wisdom is used in this section refers to theoretical wisdom. One reason Aristotle believes theoretical wisdom is of higher importance than practical wisdom is its relation to the divine. As mentioned earlier, Aristotle believes theoretical wisdom is concerned with things that are by nature more divine…