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Mind and the Body
... what society says is true to gain true knowledge and understanding, and come back ... dreams differ from reality, and how dreams can stray people away from the real truth. Many see dreams ... the intelligence and the talent level may be better off with some help ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Aristotelian Tragedy: Clytemnestra’s Tragic Role in The Oresteia
... , Clytemnestra comes to the ultimate realization: Orestes is the snake from her dream. Early ... Orestes received unjust punishment, nor realized what horrific act they committed; they ... you have been my constant companion, may you stand by my side forever" ( ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
"Society as it should have been" A description of the ideal society according to simplistic ideals and ethics.
... the evil genius controlling our dream we call life, Taking us ... . The material to build will come from the recycled material remaining ... to think that perhaps evil is what draws us to condemn our ... cause slow economic growth. This may or may not be feasible with ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics
Cogito ergo sum.
... dreams do not pause to wonder at Plato's question "What is more real, the dreamer or the dream ... , therefore I am" that philosophers have come to the conclusion that we know ... some thoughts which we experience when awake may also be experienced when we are ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy
All Men Were Created Equal
... give us the opportunity to actively peruse our dreams. This however should not and must not come at the expense on another Person. Many ... of life that gets us moving in the morning. What ever it may be, complacency may be lurking in the shadows. It is very ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Rational versus Non-Rational: A Look at Kepler
... ; you may grasp the head mentally, though only, I fear, in your dreams.? Although ... mind. Atoms, electrons, and the rest come later. Like Kepler, Whitehead was also ... the student, reader or observer feels what is being portrayed, identifies and sympathizes ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
The Apprehensive Apparition - hallucination
... as lurking beasts. Waking from a frightening dream, a person feels that what he has experienced has happened in reality. ... an intense emotional need: for example, shipwrecked sailors may visualize boats coming to their rescue well before this actually happens ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Disproving Descart's Existence of God.
... not have come from me. Descartes states, "What is more perfect [. . .] cannot come into being from what is ... himself that he is in fact not dreaming. Also, he now believes that if ... such an idea in their minds. Descartes may argue here that God simply failed ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy
Socrates in relation to Plato's "Last Days of Socrates"
... what we are doing, so our parents help us. We require our parents help up until a certain point, the coming ... Crito about a dream he had that night: it was a dream that he was ... the laws [53a]. One may see a divergence in what Socrates says about obeying ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Contemporary Philosophy
Five reasons for pursuing higher education and how philosophy fits (or doesn't) into those reasons
... education; so they can get that "dream job". With degrees and Ph.D.s comes money, along with wider opportunities for the ... may see it as entertainment . This is reason enough to enroll yourself in classes. If something beneficial to everybody is what you ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy