his novel Siddhartha, “The opposite of every truth is just as true.” Hesse believes that every story, dogma, truth, has an opposite, which is just as true and steadfast as the first. Hermann Hesse’s book The Glass Bead Game also has a revealing and interesting quote. Similar to Hesse’s quote from Siddhartha, he wrote, “everything can be interpreted one way and then again interpreted in the opposite sense.” These quotes both address the idea that truth cannot be defined by one story. Hesse’s quote
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In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, the prisoners spend their lives on-ly seeing shadows. Once free, one of the prisoners experiences intense pain when he looks at the light of a fire. And when he exits out of the cave into the light of the sun, this causes even more excruciating pain and rage. But a whole world is now revealed. After getting accustomed and acclimatized, the former prisoner feels lucky for the transformation and wisdom and feels sorry for the prisoners in the cave. He goes back to
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The media that was analyzed is a performative documentary called “Stronghearted” by Jodi Martinson. This film is about the survival story of an underage girl named Evelyn who was kidnapped and raped by the leader of the Lord Resistance Army, Joseph Kony. In the film, Evelyn is shown being forced to walk across a river in which she suffers to be eventually saved and raped by Joseph. From this, it can be seen that the purpose of this film is to show the injustice acts committed to children in the third
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In Flannery O’Connor’s story A Good Man is Hard to Find, a family is visited by a character dubbed “The Misfit,” who is an escaped convict and the main antagonist of the story. He explains to the family, and especially the grandmother, that he cannot remember what he did to belong in prison. Meanwhile, the grandmother tells The Misfit that he just needs to pray to Jesus and he will be holy again. However, the grandmother tries to manipulate the Misfit to get him to do what she wants, and her faith
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Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of human needs puts the desire for belonging and affection as second only to that of survival as a source of motivation. So why then, if the need for survival is paramount, are people able to disregard this desire in order to find acceptance and belonging? This has been the case in a variety of destructive cults that have ended in the groups’ mass or partial suicide, due to the command of their charismatic leader. Outsiders often assume that anyone who joins a cult is mentally
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“Though there be no such thing as Chance in the world; our ignorance of the real cause of any event has the same influence on the understanding, and begets a like species of belief or opinion” Hume’s use of capitalization when regarding the term Chance to help distinguish his definition from any other definitions. He defines Chance with a capital C as the idea that events can happen randomly, without any sort of explainable cause, and this is where Hume begins to beg to differ. Hume’s belief is that
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Descartes is his inquiry into his certainties – which he quickly realises is not easy as he knows the senses can be deceived. Descartes uses hyperbolic doubt to test our knowledge to the extreme. We need to suspend judgement on any proposition, whose truth can in any way be doubted (Levene, 2010). The combination if hyperbolic doubt and the cogito lead to unshakable doubt that I exist. When we doubt, we cannot doubt, that we doubt or think for doubting is a form of thinking (Schmid, 2015). As long as
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King Arthur and Carly Fiorina King Arthur is a huge historical figure and has been for centuries upon centuries. He is known from the Sword and the stone and rumored to have once been a real person, but without enough proof, we may never know. Carly Fiorina is a Republican presidential candidate for the upcoming 2016 election. Carly rose up in the 1980’s and became the Chief executive for the fortune 500 company Hewlett Packard in 1999. These two people, Arthur and Fiorina are much alike in that
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Stanley's inability to always tell the unadulterated truth. However, he exemplifies that deception is dangerous when committed by those who influence and have control of other people's lives, such as Stanley. In Scene 4, Stella flashes back to her "wedding night" when Stanley "snatched off one of [her] slippers and rushed about the place smashing the light-bulbs with it." (Williams, 97) Here, Williams utilized the "light-bulbs" as a symbol for truth, challenging the reader to assume that Stanley's desire
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“One problem with the focus on speculation is that it tends to promote the growth of the great intellectual cancer of our times: conspiracy theories.” ~ Gary Weiss. This quote means that, if there is a problem or something sounds suspicious, we will investigate it and come up with our own reasons for why it happened. Though sometimes the theory we come up with may sound stupid, we still believe it. The conspiracy theories are intellectual cancer because some theories actually sound more believable
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