Fear is a useful emotion that allows for humans to react promptly in the presence of
danger, but it can also be the crutch that makes humans defend their faith with blood and sweat
instead of reason and logic. It has taken mankind various attempts to understand the position of
the earth in the universe, and life’s of individuals like Galileo to acknowledge the round shape of
the planet. Now, the word ignorance could be used to describe the generations before that had
held such childish beliefs, however our generation is not immune to remaining scared of what
may lay in the unconscious. The reality we form is based on what can be described through our
five senses, but who is to say there is no experience that eludes mankind and
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The society Plato describes in his Allegory is restricted to a life of darkness and
immobility, similar to humans being limited to sight, hearing, taste, touch and smell. If an
individual was to remove himself from such a limited perception then the results are similar to
being ostracized or being exiled from society. Plato explains that by clinging to the past
knowledge “Men would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes; and that
it was better not even to think of ascending…” (870). The Conviction in humans to rely on
conscious knowledge is so crucial to the advancement of society that any other knowledge
gained through a different means is labeled a fantasy or an illusion. The masses require that any
new gained perspective must also support previous ideas and therefore previous beliefs remain as
absolute truths on the basis of time. In the subject of providing psychological support Jung
explains how “Apparently we are to fall back on some nebulous trust in fate; somehow or other
the matter will settle itself” (933).The trust that is given to the past without question about its
logic leads us to behave in ways that differ very little from the rituals of human sacrifice.
...so that they lose themselves in it. Hence, hardships test out that the ones who lose belief lose oneself, the ones who keep belief hold one’s own.
...ce eaten, man became “fallen” and subject to the struggles of Earthly life. Similarly, knowledge and all other pursuits are tempting, yet dangerous as they often lead us to unpleasant truths.
These theoretical concepts developed by Dr. Jung are what caused the hypothesis and negativity of my original consideration of him to be replaced by a deep respect and, in fact, an almost gleeful fascination with his work. I am discovering that quite a few people find that Jung has a great deal to say to them. This tends to include writers, artists, musicians, film makers, theologians, clergy of all denominations, students of mythology, and of course, and many psychologists
One of the most complex emotions in existence, fear is the primary emotion that triggers any kind of change, as it is capable of linking with any existing emotion to create entirely different lives upon lives. For any change that happens, fear is always present to turn the tide whichever way it pleases.
often a moral issue and the choice to believe can be an emotional or instinctual one rather then an
What fear is. Fear is the reply to when someone is intimidated by something that 's immediately going to harm their well-being. For example, a dog barking at a person and chasing them down the street. That person would feel dread, which would then give them the desire to protect themselves. In a fear situation, that desire turns into the fight or flight response. We either fight off the danger or we run and hide from it (Lamia). This response is considered a fear response because of the quickness of the reaction time; it happens immediately after the danger is sensed.
Man has always been driven to create. We constantly shape the world around us by inventing stories of heroes and monsters, by crafting complex but passionate ideals about good and evil. Some relish in the power that this manipulation of reality wields; others are more innocent in that they are simply yielding to a universal longing for something in which to believe.
Occasionally a prisoner is forced to leave the cave. They have to be compelled to leave the world they know. Socrates relates to Glaucon the result of one of the prisoners
In it, Plato asks the reader to imagine human beings living in an underground den. [where] they have been from childhood, and have their legs and necks chained so that they cannot move, and can only see before them. Above and behind them a fire is blazing at a distance, and [there is] a low wall. [with] men passing along the wall carrying all sorts of vessels, and statues a...
leaders like Alexander and Caesar, to some of the most diabolical the world has ever seen, such as Vlad the Impaler of Adolf Hitler. One idea has remained constant, and that is wisdom. Over time, philosophers, teachers, spiritual leaders, and other important thinkers have tried to understand the concept of wisdom. As these individuals have come up with numerous theories and ideas regarding wisdom, some are more accepted than others. There are three ways that wisdom can be looked at through the eyes of the ancient philosophers. What contributes to human wisdom, how different philosophers have defined wisdom over centuries, and how these philosophers definitions compare and contrast with the view of wisdom in Plato’s Apology.
We have several theories about fear like the fear appeal theory. Fear appeals are generally built upon fear. Fear is generally an unpleasant state of emotion characterized by expectation of great distress or pain and escorted by sharp autonomic activity particularly consist...
The reader, like modern man, must not give into “the arrogant presumption of certitude or the debilitating despair of skepticism,” but instead must “live in uncertainty, poised, by the conditions of our humanity and of the world in which we live, between certitude and skepticism, between presumption and despair “(Collins 36).
...r it becomes to discard. The fact that there is the possibility of knowledge getting discarded suggests that perhaps it should not have been accepted in the first place. This begs the question: is knowledge accepted too easily? More often than not, one requires an adequate amount of evidence and facts to accept something as true. However, sometimes there is no evidence and it is impossible to prove something true, yet it is still accepted as knowledge, as is in the case of many theories. This occurs mostly in the sciences, because many times it is difficult to substantiate scientific knowledge. In order to avoid this never-ending cycle of accepting and discarding knowledge, perhaps the standard of accepting knowledge as true should be raised. But sometimes when something is proven false, it leads to finding the truth, so maybe the standard should remain where it is.
“When we sense danger, the body’s defenses kick into high gear in a rapid, automatic process known as the ‘fight-or-flight’ reaction.” (Smith)
Plato, a student of Socrates, in his book “The Republic” wrote an allegory known as “Plato's Cave”. In Plato's allegory humans are trapped within a dark cave where they can only catch glimpses of the world above through shadows on the wall.2 Plato is describing how the typical human is. They have little knowledge and what they think they know has very little basis in fact. He describes these people as prisoners, in his allegory, and they are only free when they gain knowledge of the world above the cave.