Sojourner Truth

that people perceive as important… used by people attempting to make sense or to manage risk” (241). Rumors are created to satisfy the emotional wants and needs of a specific group of people and because of these wants and needs, people reject certain truths and facts that contradict their ideology and worldview. Belief and anxiety have a direct relationship to rumor transmission due to a person 's wants and needs, propaganda, ideology, bias assimilation, and cognitive dissonance. In Pezzo and…

Having Jack as the narrator in the novel Room brings a juvenile point of view to the text that is avant-garde. Meaning that his point of view is innovative. It can be seen as controversial, where he is restricted as an observer, because his mind is not fully developed yet, and he is still learning. One might confuse this as unreliable. But the fact that Jack is an inexperienced individual in his setting, it is the tension in this that makes both him as the narrator and the story more compelling.…

fall into the seat of nihilism. Nihilism is a philosophy that is described as “no absolute truth, no absolute judgments, because there is no objective reality in which such absolutes could be rooted” (Hauser 7). Furthermore, this belief lies far away from Christianity, which then does follow a straight path to a final destination in the kingdom of God. I believe that a Christian who follows this path of truth could never practice nihilism. 2. Kreeft argues that we need apologetics. What are they…

Aesthetics have come to have a different meaning to me since I first enrolled in the class. I have come to think of the advancements we have made on the topic mind-blowing. I think every philosophy we have looked at has held a truth. Schiller says it is nature that equipped man with the ability to move from what is real to what is not. Nature provided man with two senses to help them create; sight and hearing. Once someone can enjoy sight he is aesthetically free. The power of sight gives…

validity of perspectivism in relation to the conception of ideas. Nietzsche’s perspectivist point of view provides diversity in the understanding of religious practices. Plato’s notion of the Forms and the idea of a “God” as the source of “universal truths” cannot be valid, especially due to the variety of religious beliefs that exist in the world. Surely, many of these religious points of view reveal similarities of ethics and moral values, but the differing perspectives on the identity of the…

Writing Assignment #1- option 1 Plato, a well-known 4th century philosopher, explored and dissected what a perfect society truly is. His findings were that a society either contains the concept of justiceness or it does not. This concept of justiceness is a way of keeping order and harmony within the society. In order to conceive such a society, Plato suggests that there must be a division of labor that maintains the economic functions. Plato proposes that each division has a virtue that…

you’re being tested. Mill believes that lying is the worst one could do. He sees lying as a weakness because it shows that you are unable to tell the truth. One lie can create a series of actions in which another lie will be needed to cover for the original lie. At that point it would be an endless stream of lies to cover just one lie up when the truth could have been told originally. Also, cheating on a test would be anti of some higher pleasures, which Mill focuses heavily on. Pleasures such…

Shadows and Truth Plato uses the visual of the cave to help people realize how their senses deceive them and give them a belief system but not knowledge. The images seen on the walls of the cave look like and sound like anything that performers want to portray. This isn’t knowledge. This is a gimmick used by people of authority to control, and maintain people to their liking. It’s an enticing of the senses. So what happens when we look beyond the shadows? The description of the cave and…

some if they haven’t seen it or experienced than it either isn 't real or it never happened, once again it circles back to subjectivity or objectivity. Are you willing to say something is certain or absolute just because someone tells you that “the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images, that is certain” or do you take on blind faith and the fact that you haven 't experienced anything else before (Plato 3). Is that all life and knowledge can be what is set right in front…

In Michael Huemer’s essay, “The Lure of Radical Skepticism,” he expands on the idea that ‘we cannot know anything,’ by outlining four different arguments supporting the claim. (Huemer 47-57) René Descartes holds the opposite opinion, which he discusses in ‘Meditations One and Two.’ While there is validity to both sides of the argument, Huemer’s essay proves to be more reliable after dissecting Descartes’ concepts of existence. Huemer proposes that no one can know anything about the external…