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Cause And Effect Matters Of Fact
1,359 wordsHumes thoughts on metaphysics, more specifically causality, had a major impact on Kant. Although Kant disagreed with many aspects of Humes account, by writing a whole discourse devoted to it, it is obvious that it influenced him greatly. The main disagreement was, for Hume causality was analytic and for Kant it was synthetic. In the Prolegomena, Kant tries to solve some of Humes errors, and at the same time remove his skepticism. In Book I, Part III, 1 of the Treatise, Hume distinguishes two gro...
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Piss Christ Paradoxes Of Aesthetics
1,371 words... s that we rightfully hold dear... (51) On the other hand, they cannot deny that the symbolic effect of blasphemy is in fact entirely mediated by the cultural and contextual reception of the offending image, which end up constructing the image in the minds of its readers as either 'work of art', 'act of blasphemy', 'tedious self-indulgence' or any number of interpretations, all finally equally valid in an era of liberal capitalism: This notion of "the image itself" is a major misunderstanding...
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Rivers Have Begun Flow In Their Present Courses Species
2,554 words... he destruction of the animals of which the remains are now so curiously preserved, has been something of sudden and instantaneous operation. Of this, however, we do not think that the proof is quite satisfactory; and though the thing may be true in some instances, we believe that in far the greater number it cannot be admitted. The rhinoceros, of which the skeleton with some parts of the muscles and the hide, was found near the banks of the Lena, must no doubt have been frozen soon after its...
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Pleasure And Pain Primary And Secondary
2,151 words... f the operations of bodies on us (sensation) or the observation of the workings of our own minds (reflection). In a famous passage (II, XI, 17), Locke compares the mind to a "dark room" (in the Latin, "camera obscura") with only a narrow inlet. Ideas are analogous to the images projected onto the back of the room. Locke classified the various simple ideas according to the following scheme. Those that come to the mind by one sense only, such as color or odor. Those that come in to the mind by...
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Undertakes All Efforts Spike Lee
1,573 wordsSpike Lee Introduction Spike Lee is a well-known American film director, script writer and actor. His real name is Sheldon Jackson; however, as far back as his school years he decided to take a pseudonym Spike). Spike Lee is an indisputable leader of African-American cinema culture of 1980 - 1990 s. Critics often call him a black Woody Allen both for the formal resemblance (despite the color of skin, they do have much in common), as well as for their adherence to the same theme, with the only ex...
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Suzanne Jill Levine Susan Bassnett Andre Lefevere Language
1,867 wordsIdeology and translation When, in conjunction with mimesis, we speak of ideology and translation, terms drawn from the social realm on the one hand and the linguistic on the other, we need to keep in mind that the binding power of ideology lies in its ability to confirm the identity of a community and that translatability presumes identity between languages. This explains the regularity with which the concepts of mimesis and representation appear in definitions of ideology. Theodor Adorno define...
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Essay Concerning Human Understanding Secondary Qualities
1,261 wordsLocke's Theory on Primary and Secondary Qualities Locke is interested in the role of experience in the search for knowledge. He is an empiricist. He believes that our senses are the only basis for knowledge. He sees the human mind as white paper, void of all characters without any ideas prior to experience. (pg. 104) In order to understand Locke's conception of primary and secondary qualities we must focus on five key points. First, I will examine what ideas are and how they are caused by qualit...
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Cause And Effect Distinct Ideas
2,063 wordsWhat Came First: The Chicken or the Egg? David Hume moves through a logical progression of the ideas behind cause and effect. He critically analyzes the reasons behind those generally accepted ideas. Though the relation of cause and effect seems to be completely logical and based on common sense, he discusses our impressions and ideas and why they are believed. Humes progression, starting with his initial definition of cause, to his final conclusion in his doctrine on causality. As a result, it ...
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Teddy Bear Political Correctness
1,413 wordsPolitical Correctness: Essay submitted by Joshua Lewis The University of Southern California: The Teddy Bear Massacre Like so many other traditions, the burning of the bruin was put on the chopping block recently. The long running University of Southern California spirit activity consisted of throwing a large stuffed bear in a bon fire the night before the football game against their rival, the University of California at Los Angeles. The Black Student Union and other student organizations recen...
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Native Americans Political Correctness
1,366 wordsLike so many other traditions, the burning of the bruin was put on the chopping block recently. The long running University of Southern California spirit activity consisted of throwing a large stuffed bear in a bon fire the night before the football game against their rival, the University of California at Los Angeles. The Black Student Union and other student organizations recently questioned the event. Their concern was that the event too closely resembled past lynching of African Americans in...
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