Spinoza’s monism, as fleshed out in his Ethics, is placed upon sturdier footing. Three concerns with the ideas of Descartes will be compared with the philosophy of Spinoza: issues with Descartes argument because of ramifications in the argument for God, the mind-body problem as being one without a solution, and
As I said this I looked around and saw that I was standing on a island, the layout of it makes it seem like something you would see in a postcard. Near the center of the island are 2 two trees that resembled palm trees and on these trees were a total of five coconut like objects. 3 were bigger than the common coconut being about as large as a basketball the color of them were pitch black, perfectly smooth exterior. The next one was about the same size as a normal coconut, also black but not smooth
into the dressing room, past the already occupied stalls, you begin to detect traces of the battle that lay before you. Hateful comments about one’s self, groaning, mixed with chants to the body gods requesting a flat stomach, larger chest, or thinner thighs, women and girls questioning why they can't be, why they aren't beautiful, while scrutinizing in the scratched mirror and cheap department-store lighting every miniscule flaw, every
The Dispossessed Following World War I, novels describing utopias gradually decreased in number, until the genre almost went extinct in mid-century, being replaced by dystopias like the famous Nineteen-Eighty-Four written by George Orwell. Later on, in the mid-seventies, fuelled by the upsurge of social reform that began in the late sixties and continued into the new decade, new utopias graced the scene, the most memorable ones being Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia, Samuel R. Delany's Triton, and