Before moving to the main argument of this thesis which is the ethical dimension of St. Bonaventure’s Itinerarium Mentis in Deum, the researcher first of all wants to dwell on the anthropology of the philosopher. What is man? This question is essential for it speaks of the true nature of man and this question points basically to its true source? In order to have a better grasp of the groundings of his argument one must first have a good grasp of what is his concept of man? This chapter is based on
through critical analysis Socrates position. Socrates position is that the soul is composed of three parts, which consist of reason, appetite, and spirit (emotion). The reasoning component is the rational part which measures and thinks, and the appetite is the irrational component which lusts and desires. The last element is the spirit which essentially governs the appetites. These three components of the soul lead to justice and therefore, through balance of these, a just man who works towards
My Second Excursion to Whangedoodleland: An Analysis of Reader’s Response Theory First proposed by the late Louise Rosenblatt, reader’s response theory is an innovative conjecture on how and why people react in varying ways to a text. Specifically, Rosenblatt states in her work that a reader brings to the work personality traits, memories of past events, present needs and preoccupations, a particular mood of the moment and a particular physical condition when interacting with a text. In her second
Opening my reflection paper, I want to agree with author’s words and put stress that “Propaganda works best with an uncritical audience. People are bamboozled mainly because they don’t recognize propaganda when they see it.” We can start analysis from the very first point: Name Calling. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948, states that: "Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms without distinction of any kind, such as race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other
1. Introduction In his “New Riddle of Induction”, Goodman provides further analysis of Hume’s claims in his “Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding”, by claiming that Hume’s problem with induction is a problem with the validity of predictions that humans make. In this paper, I will first begin by defining what both Hume and Goodman’s arguments are, as Goodman derives his conclusions from the premises that Hume puts forward. Then I will explain why Goodman’s claims, and “grue” example, are illegitimate
Feminist ethics (radical) The radical feminist ethics refer to “the coercive power of the patriarchy that is so powerful and subtle that most women do not even notice that they are being coerced.” However, this argument would also, upon application to other professions, mean that women are coerced everywhere. Here, we stop to note that the split nature of dominant feminist ethics in relation to prostitution may backfire and potentially decrease the impact of feminist inspired policies and may also
This spring semester of 2017 I took the course Introduction to Literature 2341-16 with Dr. Rivera. This was a challenging course for me at the beginning, since reading and writing has never been my favorite things to do. However, with effort and preparation I could overcome my weaknesses and be able to succeed. Reading is one the hardest things for me, but surprisingly this class changed my appreciation for reading. I used to not read the assigned reading in view of them being boring and also when
when it is indeed false. His argument states that all the choices we make can eventually be traced to have a cause or causes beyond our control or that all of the choices we make are completely random because nothing causes us to do so, and because our actions are dictated by either random causes or causes that are completely out of our control, humans lack autonomy. Although Shafer-Landau’s argument fits the valid pattern of a dilemma, I believe that his argument is not sound due to the value of
” which means, “to be born,” (63). She views family as the picture of a nation and describes nation as “the national family of man,” which institutes a “social hierarchy” where the subordination of women and children to men is naturalized (64). With this the man is favored and the
Gramsci viewed the proper terrain of hegemony as civil society, rather than the state. The third assumption further extends the consent-civil society/coercion-state binary opposition, in order to characterise two qualitatively distinct geographical zones of West and East. The fourth assumption argues that Gramsci’s concept of hegemony is indifferent to its class content. Both as a term of theoretical analysis and as a political strategy, this ‘consensual power’ is valid for proletarian and bourgeois