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Clear And Distinct Level Of Reality
1,373 wordsIn Descartes Meditations on First Philosophy, he offers two main arguments from which he concludes the existence of God. In the Third Meditation, Descartes proposes his metaphysical argument, which states that God must exist, because his real existence is the only cause, which could have produced Descartes own idea of God. In the Fifth Meditation, Descartes contends that existence is contained in Gods essence, so a non-existent God is by definition, a contradiction. This paper will analyze the s...
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1,397 wordsEvery human being throughout history has felt pain sometime in his life. The moment a newborn leaves the womb, he is exposed to his first experiences of light and sound; which is painful compared to the cozy embryonic sac they have become accustomed to. Everyone in the world has felt disappointed or let down, which can also be painful. There are two major types of pain in the world; physical pain and emotional pain, which can be somewhat related at times, and independent of each other at other t...
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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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Psychological Type And The Indicator
1,188 wordsRunning Head: MYERS-BRIGGS TYPE INDICATOR Psychological Type and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Northwestern State University of Louisiana Psychological Type and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator One of the most enduring typological classifications was devised by Jung and has served as the foundation for the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (Anastasia, 1997). The Myers-Briggs (MBTI) designates one's personality type, based upon a classification scheme, which consists of four basic scales and two types...
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Extrasensory Perception Duke University
1,892 words: A. Introduction / History of problem Any act is conditional on underlying processes. Visual identification of an object requires both the use of the eyes and that light is reflected from the object. Parapsychologists claim that some people have the ability to perform such acts as identifying objects when the conditions normally assumed to be necessary for their execution are absent. Such behavior they call extrasensory perception, or ESP (Kurtz, 1985). The ESP debate is about whether or not di...
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Live Our Lives Path To Enlightenment
4,294 wordsReality Bytes: A journey through perceptions of reality in 'The Matrix' and the technological world. The idea for this dissertation arose from the culmination of a number of thoughts that have interested me for some time. The question of 'reality' has always intrigued me. I perceived it as tangible and exact but at the same time intensely vulnerable. I saw the frailties of 'reality' exposed by the many differing ways it can be perceived. These differences of perception can be attributed to facto...
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Terms Blind Blindness Chromatic Objective World Visual
2,803 wordsThe greatest expression of the ultimate timeless civilisation of mankind, is the embodiment of unfeigned, absolute, active altruistic reverence for the universal equality, dignity and sanctity of humanity; the inability to perceive the declivity from behind an acclivity, or rather, the proclivity to infer the depth of a river from its breath is, no less, the antithesis, for verisimilitude isnt proof, but verisimilitude. To be or not to be then, being is but a metaphysical idiom with a being, who...
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Much Ado About Nothing The Importance Of Noting
1,169 wordster> Discuss The Importance Of Noting In Much Ado About Nothing Noting, or observing, is central to many of the ideas in Much Ado About Nothing. The word nothing was pronounced as noting in Elizabethan times, and it seems reasonable to presume that the pun was intended by Shakespeare to signal the importance of observation, spying and eavesdropping in the play. As a plot device, these occurrences propel the action and create humour and tension. The perils of noting incorrectly are port...
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Takes Place Large Number
1,972 wordsIn the preceding pages we dealt with certain definitions of the words (frequently used interchangeably) dealing with illusion and glamor. We found that: Illusion is primarily of a mental quality and was characteristic of the attitude of mind of those people who are more intellectual than emotional. They have outgrown glamor as usually understood. It is the misunderstanding of ideas and thought-forms of which they are guilty, and of misinterpretations. Glamor is astral in character, and is far mo...
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Object Can Be Altered 'seeing Is Believing' Person
593 wordsI feel as though I have no choice but to be a skeptic about our ability to know the world on the sense experience given the information that is being presented. Our senses are touching, hearing, smelling and tasting, I believe it is quite possible that a person could think they see, touch, and smell something such as a glass of bear but there be no glass of beer present, therefore their perception of this glass of beer is false. There is a good possibility that this person is suffering from any ...
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Consumption Of Alcohol Second Shot
1,862 wordsThe world in which we live is certainly not perfect. For some people, this cruel fact becomes an insurmountable obstacle to any further pursuits in life, with the only acceptable option to quit it all together. Personally, I believe that suicide is rather stupid thing to do. Despite of various misfortunes and inconveniences that we might go through, life is still good and the only thing that one has to be aware of is that any conflict that emerges in ones life should not be regarded as something...
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Cause And Effect Matters Of Fact
1,472 wordsPhilosophy Hume and Descartes were the greatest world philosophers who had his assumptions and argumentation concerning almost any philosophical issues presented for society. Humes test for the meaningfulness of an idea involves the clear evaluation of any particular idea and than looking for justification for that idea. As long as any idea has particular proof or solid base that it is expressed on the idea can be considered meaningful. The revival of skepticism, brought about by these modern co...
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Cause And Effect Matters Of Fact
1,421 wordsHume Hume was one of the greatest world philosophers who had his assumptions and argumentation concerning almost any philosophical issues presented for society. His test for the meaningfulness of an idea involves the clear evaluation of any particular idea and than looking for justification for that idea. As long as any idea has particular proof or solid base that it is expressed on the idea can be considered meaningful. The revival of skepticism, brought about by these new concepts, had many ph...
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Kant Categorical Imperative Imperative Which Dictates
1,269 wordsImmanuel Kant (1724 - 1804) had an interesting ethical system for reasoning. It is based on a belief that the reason is the final authority for morality. In Kant? s eyes reason is directly correlated with morals and ideals. Actions of any sort, he believed, must be undertaken from a sense of duty dictated by reason, and no action performed for appropriateness or solely in obedience to law or custom can be regarded as moral. A moral act is an act done for the right reasons. Kant would argue that ...
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Boston Bedford St Banking Concept Of Education
2,057 wordsDefining Reality Everyone perceives reality in a different light. Reality is a result of the upbringing and surroundings of an individual and as a person matures, they are exposed to more ideas, thoughts, and events. The actions and events that a person is exposed to are communicated through language, which defines reality by allowing people to become receptive to different ideas. While language can expand ones reality, language also places limits on that reality. Society, geography and language...
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Clear And Distinct Level Of Reality
1,379 wordsIn Descartes? Meditations on First Philosophy, he offers two main arguments from which he concludes the existence of God. In the Third Meditation, Descartes proposes his metaphysical argument, which states that God must exist, because his real existence is the only cause, which could have produced Descartes? own idea of God. In the Fifth Meditation, Descartes contends that existence is contained in God? s essence, so a non-existent God is by definition, a contradiction. This paper will analyze t...
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Point Of View Cultural Background
1,007 wordsHumdrum Conundrum: Does or does it not make sense to insist that how each person sees things depends entirely on that persons unique time, place, and subjective judgement? on their cultural background? I would like to point out that this paper is written assuming there is an absolute reality and there is actually a table sitting there, and it is not just a figment of our imagination, as it were. Pardon the assumption, I have to have somewhere to work from. ? Did You Just See That? ? I believe it...
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Death Be Not Proud Perception Of Death
2,272 wordsOne of the most fascinating views of life is the contextualists perception. Contextualist's seek to understand the essential human passions of the world. As a contextualists interpreting a poem, it is portentous to observe the passion of the poem. A contextualist draws the sensations out of the poets mind. It focuses on the emotional thoughts and vivid ideas created in the picture painted by the poet. There is always a picture, some sort of portrait of emotion the writer wants to express to the ...
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Kant Categorical Imperative Imperative Which Dictates
3,239 wordsGet Essays Essay Search Submit Essays Request Essays Essay Links FAQ Compare Mill and Kant's ethical theories; which makes a better societal order? John Stuart Mill (1808 - 73) believed in an ethical theory known as utilitarianism. There are many formulation of this theory. One such is, Everyone should act in such a way to bring the largest possibly balance of good over evil for everyone involved. However, good is a relative term. What is good? Utilitarians disagreed on this subject. Mill made a...
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Beatrice And Benedick Appearance And Reality
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