Truth or Dare?

The confrontation against otherness, that is to say with someone who is different from us, places us instinctively in a situation of intolerance because acknowledging that someone else is right would be lived as a kind of humiliation since it would mean that I'm wrong. However, it also appears obvious to defend tolerance as a result of the mistakes from the different wars of religion. It is in this perspective that John Locke wrote his Letter on Tolerance, and I am going to try to analyse it.…

himself admits to have learn about it only from his study: For although I know not Love indeed Nor know how he pays his folk their hire, Yet full oft it happens in books I read Of his miracles and his cruel ire. There I read he will be lord and sire; I dare only say, his strokes being sore, ‘God save such a lord!’ I’ll say no more. (Chaucer 8-12) Because of this, he opts to read Cicero’s Somnium Scipionis; a tale which describes the experience of Scipio as he encounters his grandfather and…

foot correspond with the soul of a being? Both, in fact, are not organic in nature. One is composed of meat and bone, the other is what our purpose resides in. Furthermore, that statement is proved to be untrue. Arthur: What is truth? Genevieve: Good God. Arthur: Isn’t truth just a figment of our imagination of which entitlement rests its thieving head. Or is it a flowering meadow of which justice blooms it flower in the face of a conspiring sun who beams down rays of facts of reality and…

believe everyone deserves a second chance. The story in The Crucible is completely different. A bunch of teenage girls who didn’t want to get in trouble listened to their conscience and lied about what really happened. Now if they had had told the truth, the nine-teen people who were executed would have been save. I’m a teenage girl, and I know how it feels to be doing something I’m not supposed to do and be tempted to lie, and I have fallen into the depths of temptation and felt the wrath of…

political propaganda. In reducing the amount of sources, the people have no other opinions presented to them than the ones that the government wants them to have. The perpetuation of false histories is atrocious. One country may believe one historical truth while another country only ever knew the exact opposite. With the censorship of one perspective of…

Possibly because the world contains billions and billions of minds that perceive events uniquely and incapable of fathoming anyone else’s reality but their own. Whatever the case might be, it is becoming noticeably more difficult to tell apart the truth from a convincing front. The world is getting increasingly more commercialized, deceptive and self centric. However, this is not a new development in the modern world as…

Tom and Gatsby are both dishonest and deeply flawed men who commit consistent shows of indiscretions. For example, Tom condemns Daisy’s affair, but does not have the decency to be discreet about his own. Gatsby’s shady business dealings with Wolfsheim and illicit ways of acquiring wealth can, without a doubt, compare to Tom’s unscrupulous character. Both Tom and Gatsby lie and cheat, but Tom does it for the sole purpose of self-indulgence, while Gatsby does what he does in pursuance of his…

senses of reality, seeing, hearing, feeling, and tasting are all to mislead one from discovering the true reality. This truth will explain that reality can’t be good because…

The reason that they were able to do this might be that their "chains" weren't as strong as those of the southerners. The Yankees weren't totally immersed in the slave culture, which made it easier for them to look beyond the "shadows" to the real truth. This conflict between the epistemological methods of the north and the south arguably caused the civil war. If both sides held a similar epistemological view then the civil war wouldn't have taken place. It seems impossible, however, for…

the abstract question of reality. In contrast, the aim of modern science has been, by employing the scientific method, to establish reality beyond any doubt. As a result, the public commonly accepts scientific findings and theories as undisputable truths. However, the certainty of modern science is misleading and continues to leave the question of reality open for…