Advaita asserts that the only thing which is certain and apodictic is the evidence of consciousness for any claim that we make – whether we claim that we know something or the claim that we do not know something. All sources of knowledge are dependent on consciousness: whatever be the source of consciousness, be it perception, or inference, or scripture, it presupposes consciousness as its ultimate source. That which is the presupposition of every kind of knowledge and of every source of knowledge
From Buddhism point of view, “Rebirth occurs through consciousness or stream of consciousness and then become a new combination of aggregates.” More specifically, according to “Sandhinirmocana Sūtra” in Mahayana Buddhism, this essence of a beings can be seen as the store consciousness ( ālaya-vijñāna) in the eight consciousness (Skt: aṣṭa-vijñāna-kāya) because it clings to and hides in the body in the sense of sharing the body's same "fate"
point in time. Nagel introduces the essential problem of the reductionists as an inability to grasp the meaning of consciousness in an organism. Nagel argues that “fundamentally an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism” (Nagel, 404). In other words, the vast unique experiences of an organism constitute consciousness. Through this early example, Nagel is presenting the basis of
For the property dualist, mental phenomena are non-physical properties of physical substances. Consciousness is perhaps the most widely recognized example of a non-physical property of physical substances” (Calef, "Dualism and Mind"). An argument for property dualism is the Zombie argument. To explain the Zombie arguments, we must agree that in the philosophical
and ideology. These outcomes are products of over-determination, or various determinations; albeit the base is the eventual determinant instance, it may not necessarily be the dominant one (Smith 1984: p. 526). Furthermore, ideology is not false consciousness as argued by the Frankfurt School. Ideology is both true and false. True, because it encompasses the real conditions of people’s lives. False, because it misrecognises and misrepresents power and class relations (Barker 2012: p. 64). Ideologies
new theory of evolution as descried in Origin of Species has had a huge impact on the development of the modern discipline of Psychology and on society today. In this essay I will examine Wilhelm Wundt’s Institute of Experimental Psychology and Darwin’s theory of evolution from Origin of Species. I will look at what they included and the effect they had on Psychology and society at the time they were published and their influence years after. Firstly I will assess the impact of the new theory of
spontaneous dream deletion, it would be incisive to ask what the relationship between dream consciousness, memory and self-identity is. We can first approach the problem of dream consciousness and memory. There are many methods to dream recall such as lucid dreams where it is considered as a type of dream control. It is also thought that culture is an important factor in understanding dream consciousness and the accessibility of dream memory. In the premodern cultures dreams were not always
CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR Introduction Theory of learning refers to the conceptual frameworks that describe how knowledge is being absorbed, processed as well as retained during learning. Learning enables people to be able to respond to changes in life effectively. The principles of learning also help individuals when interacting with others and also in learning new languages as well as in buying behavior of consumers. The use of new language requires one to have a strong element of learning which also
is known as a literary critic and a linguist but he himself asserted, “I am a Philosopher”. He is also considered as a ‘Philosopher of Human Communication’. The quest for self and selfhood led him to a research which lasted for many years and his theories of dialogism, heteroglossia and polyphony, monologism, outsideness, chronotope, carnivalesque, utterance and word etc. are the result of this quest. Bakhtin endeavoured to attempt the question, very basic as well as the ultimate question, Who Am
Explain how the theories of Psychodynamic Therapeutic care relate to your practice of Social Care. In this assignment I will be critically appraising both Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung’s concepts within essential frameworks covered in this module, including their therapeutic relationships. Through out the year I studied many theorists and their concepts however I found Freud and Jung most interesting. Within this piece of work I will also explain how the theories of Psychodynamic