A look inside my brain. What I believe as truths will be presented throughout the text. The goal is to write as I please. Take observation, write experiences, and understand life. The end result will be the metaphysical ground of Rob Geis' philosophy. This writing may differ from the common academic articles one would read to understand philosophy and other academic discourses. I will not sift through the sources, or find difficult words to decipher. There is room to stray away from the main goal of this writing, but perhaps the end result will be intriguing. Learning is a cognitive ability that is marvelous, no man on the earth has ever lost capacity in his memory to learn something new. This brings me to the great paradox. Man is an immortal conscious stuck in a mortal body. There is an unlimited capability to receive knowledge, but there is only one lifetime to learn as much as possible. Dr. Pepper …show more content…
Our senses, our development, every physiological process, and how we think are consistent person to person, at least from my experiences. There is a common trend on our planet of how humans act. Our brains naturally know how to understand the information we receive from the world around us. Any animate, or inanimate object can be received as information. We have the ability to perceive it and then turn that information into action. Anything we interact with is essentially an input into our brains. Our output is what this information makes us think and how we express it. It is true that humans are dominant because we have a conscious and no other entity surrounding us is capable of our level of thinking. Many can link this and answer this by saying it’s because of God. What flicked the switch and gifted us with consciousness. We really cannot understand why we have been gifted life in this pristine form. I respect all faiths and all beliefs related to finding answers to this
Knowledge can be the key to success and can lead people to happier life. However, there are some instances that you can not gain any more knowledge because of how it would change your whole life. The drive of wanting more and more knowledge is best portrayed through two well -known books. In Mary Shelley’s, Frankenstein, and in Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon, both the creature and Charlie are ostracized by society because they are different from everyone else but this distinction gave way for distinct fallouts because of their quest for knowledge beyond their reach to achieve happiness.
...es the world today, these people always choose ignorance over reason. Most people choose ignorance as a defence mechanism to stop thinking about these problems, they don’t realize that by doing that they are becoming more indifferent and they lose one of the most important traits that makes them human, compassion. Without compassion humans would become animals and the world we live in would become a jungle. As Edmund Burke warned “all that is needed for the triumph of evil, is that good men do nothing”, he warns the whole world that if they do not stand up for evil, it will win. Elie Weisle also explains “ The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference”, meaning that if the world does not stop their ignorance, and start to show compassion to one another , they might as well say goodbye to their precious world because it’s not going to be around for very long.
it is seen that knowledge can hurt. It is also shown that sometimes one can know
Considering that human being is a social being, he likes to interact with other people to feel secure and to enjoy their company. Since ages, humans have been organizing themselves in groups that were later called communities or the societies. Thus, a society can refer to a group of individuals’ persistent social interaction or rather a large social grouping sharing the same geographical or social territory. Often a society is subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. Moreover, society is usually characterized by patterns of relationship between persons who share distinctive culture and institutions and holds the sum total of social relationships among its constituent members. However, many individuals have different views and feelings towards a good society. For long many individuals have believed that a perfect society in that which everyone lives in harmony and everything is done for the benefit and
Humans, since the beginning of our first civilization and throughout the history of mankind, have always strived for a perfect world that would secure our society’s interests. Whether they are beneficial to a small group or the whole society, those interests will guide and shape the future of this new society. As of today, human civilization has never before seen an advancement of as many aspects of our lives from living commodities, entertainment, services, technologies, and so on that seem to reflect a promising world of the future. However, at the same time, human history has also witnessed great turmoil and many setbacks in our society ranging from small-scale problems such as immorality, variant of discriminations, financial crisis to
In today’s society, one discovers numerous amounts of cruelty and injustice in many parts of the world due to humanity’s ignorance in helping one another. The three quotations found in the works of Elie Wiesel, John Donne, and Terry George, allows the audience to notice a common message; people should help and care about each other.
...al analysis of modern society's tendencies. The author requests that rather than operate in conflict, cultures, even those that contrast each other, should act together as a continuous entity, rather than be splintered by differences that divide.
Wilson in “The Moral Sense,” describes the moral sense as a universal aspiration of human kind, the foundation of our societies. Throughout his book, Wilson delves into the reasoning behind his logical conclusion about universal principles. Machiavelli, Aristotle, and Wilson all have distinct views on society that are arguably defined either as modern or ancient in the way that they are written and researched. We are interconnected to other humans; we are all creature of self-interest who achieve our fundamental needs using the universal idea of community. This idea of universal need for a community is the foundation for Wilson’s writing, in which he argues that we are the product of culture and adaptation, yet even so, throughout every culture there is some form of the family institution and a socially connected structured society. We all have a consensus on what fairness is, however, the definition we used is widely varied in a multitude of individuals across different cultures.
Why do we other and is there an ethical way to live with the other in an increasingly diverse world? In Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers, Kwame Anthony Appiah considers otherness as coming from two interconnected concepts: first, the other are those who are not local or related to us; second, we perceive the other to have a conflicting set of values to our own. However, Appiah contends that the values between a group and an other are not significantly different. As for an ethical means of living together with the other, Appiah puts forth the concept of cosmopolitanism, which has two fundamental ideas: that we have an obligation of concern for others; and a respect for what he refers to as “legitimate difference” (Appiah: xv).
The pursuit of knowledge can lead to a humans destruction and awareness. The pursuit of
On a lighter view of human nature, opposing Hobbes, David Hume (1711-1776) believed that man is motivated by his sympathy to loved ones, friends and partial friends. It is understandable that there is trust in that no family members would kill each other because they love each other. But this kind nature leads man to act coldly to strangers in order to protect the ones he loves. Since people protect their loved ones, it’s natural for them to become enemies to enemies of their loved ones. Even so, in ‘A Treatise of Human Nature’, Hume encouraged people to sympathise and love not only everyone who they already loved, but others also. This way, war can be prevented without the use of drastic measures such as Hobbes suggestion of an absolute sovereign.
So to say, knowledge can either make or break a person. It can act as a benefit, for power, or loss, for ignorance. “Do not take for granted what you know. Ask yourself how you know what you know; ask yourself whom it benefits, whom it hurts and why.” (Blackboard: Knowledge is Power)
This semester, I had the privilege to experience unrestricted creativity in a structured writing class. Now, as I reflect upon the semester I come to realize how closed minded I really am. This semester, I was challenged as a student writer to draw upon something or find inspiration from within to constructively create a masterpiece with words. Often times, finding or even tapping into my creative nerve was very difficult. Then I came to realize, as a student writer, I am paralyzed by a concept called decision making. In a Public Administration Leadership course I actually learned something about myself. What I had learned really took me back to all the other structured writing classes I have taken over the years. There is a psychological test called the Big-5 Personally Traits which measures an individual’s ability to effective leadership. After taking several Big-5 Personality Test I realized that I lean towards the closed-minded leadership style. Then I had a self-actualization about myself when it comes to my writing. I realized that I struggle with writing because I am a decision maker and not a problem-solver. My entire academic career, I was taught the decision making style of writing and not the problem solving style. I realize, now, why I cannot paint a detailed masterpiece of vivid colorful artwork in the minds of others. Or why I cannot dazzle, inspire, and cause one to move to my words. In essence, I have a weak inner voice and subdued to the influence of just putting words on paper in a manner that hopefully makes sense.
Why do we other and is there an ethical way to live with the other in an increasingly diverse world? In Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers, Kwame Anthony Appiah considers otherness as coming from two interconnected concepts: first, the other are those who are not local or related to us; second, we perceive the other to have a conflicting set of values to our own. However, Appiah contends that the values between a group and an other are not significantly different. As for an ethical means of living together with the other, Appiah puts forth the concept of cosmopolitanism, which has two fundamental ideas: that we have an obligation of concern for others; and a respect for what he refers to as “legitimate difference” (Appiah: xv). Additionally, he puts forth that agreement on values is not necessary to live together in society, rather, the necessity is the ability to perform socially required actions regardless of whether there is agreement on the rationale for those actions.
Individual self is nested in an ecological context, embedded in relational dynamics, patterns, and systems. These interwoven connections support the assertion that humans are a part of, not independent from, the systems in which they are surrounded. Our social and relational ecologies, then, contribute to our individual psychological identity, and can impact how we act upon and interpret our own stories.