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Deep Throat First Person
5,031 wordsWHAT DOES MYSTICISM HAVE TO TEACH US ABOUT CONSCIOUSNESS? Revised version of the paper delivered to "Towards a Science of Consciousness 1996 (Tucson II) April 1996 [Draft for Tucson II Conference Proceedings] Revised version appears in JCS, 5, No. 2 (1998), pp. 185 - 201 Robert K. C. Forman, Program in Religion, Hunter College, CUNY, 695 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10021, USA. Email: In this article I would like to bring the findings of my somewhat unusual but increasingly accepted field mysticism...
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Identity Theory Mental States
1,703 wordsThe framework of choice for the contemporary philosophers of mind is physicalism, a position that integrates the study of mind within the 'scientific' human knowledge regulated by the laws of matter and energy. In this paper, I will provide arguments that support the incompatibility between two different theories of mind, namely mind-brain identity theory (IT) and folk psychology (FP) on logical grounds. The first part of the essay will familiarize the reader with the basic concepts, definitions...
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Ode To Indolence Impossible To Separate Keats
555 wordsAlthough the atmosphere being created here is much different to the one used in Ode to Psyche, it is the sensations and feelings that are being highlighted through the use of alliteration. Another technique used by Keats to create a sensuous mood to his poetry and to show emotions is the repeated use of ternary structure. In Ode to a Nightingale ternary structure appears a number of times with the weariness, the fever and the fret and the grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild. However, it ...
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Brothers And Sisters Cycle Of Life
1,138 wordsWhitman Sung of Sensuality Walt Whitman was at once more sensual in his imagery than any of his contemporaries. He dared to mention sensations of skin, eyes, ears and sexual organs, a things which was just not done during his time. Certainly he talks of love and sexuality too, but even his sensual imagery was often shocking to people of his time. (Encarta Encyclopedia 2006) Whitman is reputed to have been a closet homosexual, but when I read these poems I felt that he might even have been a litt...
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Belle Dame Sans Merci Ode To A Nightingale
1,451 wordsEnglish Literature Outline Introduction. Prelude to Lyrical Ballads. Wordsworth's main points. The Romantic Era and Wordsworth. John Keats. His Poetry and the Prelude. Le Belle Dame sans Merci reflects the ideas of the Prelude. Emotions in Keats poetry. Use of alliteration. Use of ternary structure. Personification. The role of Beauty in Keats poetry. Art is beautiful. Thoughts and feelings cannot be separated. 6. Conclusion. Wordsworth's monumental poetic legacy rests on a large number of impor...
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Book Was Written Picture Of Dorian Gray
3,943 wordsThe soul is thought to be an immaterial entity coexisting with our bodies which is credited with the faculties of thought, action, and emotion. It is the part of our body which is believed to live on after the body dies. In Oscar Wilde's, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the main character, Dorian Gray, destroys the innocence of his soul and becomes corrupt. He becomes corrupt by failing to live a life of virtue but of sin. The main reason for his transformation can be attributed mostly to a portrait...
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Jean Jacques Rousseau History Of England
2,885 wordsDavid David Hume Humes Life David Hume was the son of a minor Scottish landowner. His family wanted him to become a lawyer, but he felt an insurmountable resistance to everything but philosophy and learning. Mr. Hume attended Edinburgh University, and in 1734 he moved to a French town called La Fleche to pursue philosophy. He later returned to Britain and began his literary career. As Hume built up his reputation, he gained more and more political power. Humes Philosophy HUMES WRITINGS In 1742, ...
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Mri Scans Panic Attacks
2,465 wordsDoes Claustrophobia Cause People To Deviate From Does Claustrophobia Cause People To Deviate From Confined Areas Does Claustrophobia Cause People to Deviate from Confined Areas? References Does Claustrophobia cause people to deviate from confined areas? The independent variable is claustrophobia, and the dependent variable is the confined areas. Our hypothesis to this question is yes claustrophobia can be cured and reduced by cognitive behavioral therapy. The issue of claustrophobia is very impo...
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States Of Mind Mental States
1,386 wordsEliminativists Eliminative Material Eliminative Materialism Eliminativist's believe that there is something fundamentally mistaken about the common-sense conception of the mind. Elimin-activists suggest that for man to move forward in his understanding of the mind he must drop part or all of this common sense conception in favor of one which does not use notions such as belief, experience, sensations and the like. The rationale for this suggestion is that these notions are fraught with conceptua...
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Essay Concerning Human Understanding Theory Of Knowledge
2,487 wordsFrancis Locke I. General Notions Francis Bacon and Thomas Hobbes were not truly conscious of the phenomenalistic consequences of their theory of knowledge, which was based on empiricism. Both considered sensation as phenomenal presentations and also as representations of reality. Thus they still had something upon which to build an absolute metaphysics. With Locke gnosiological phenomenalism enters its critical phase. By considering sensations merely as subjective presentations, Locke gives us a...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica Moral Reasoning
2,891 wordsSam Vaknins Psychology, Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites The Encyclopaedia Britannica (1999 edition) defines empathy as: The ability to imagine oneself in anthers place and understand the others feelings, desires, ideas, and actions. It is a term coined in the early 20 th century, equivalent to the German End? hung and modelled on sympathy. The term is used with special (but not exclusive) reference to aesthetic experience. The most obvious example, perhaps, is that of the act...
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Nietzsche Believes Modern Science
1,429 wordsNietzsche believes that Nietzsche Nietzsche Nietzsche believes that people in his era are hypocritical. That is why he criticizes people. Nietzsche believes that he is the voice of all oppressed people. He believes there is a new age coming and it is called the twilight of the idols. He thinks that this new ear will subvert Christian authority, which has dominated the people s way of life up to this point. The twilight indicates that the sun is finally setting. The Christian idols will descend a...
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