I disagree with certain idea and issue Rene Descartes argues about in his passage. His beliefs of skepticism at points were valid at times but every human has a right to believe, do anything or create what they want to believe in their mind. To make it feel real is up to the person because we control our emotions which control our mind set to think if we are being trick to having ten fingers or to believe there is no god that created this world we call earth. The scope of knowledge in this reading "Meditations on first philosophy" by Rene Descartes is the truth of doubt. Doubt causes people to believe that you do not know something when you actually do.
Moore would say we can see these self evident truths when, in an argument, we are reduced to “it’s just wrong,” they require no further explanation, proof or justification. This seems a fairly logical conclusion, in order to justify what we do we look at it in basic terms, but such a process could not take place indefinitely without coming to a base truth which could not be broken down further. It’s the classic “it just is” situation in an argument, where the statement cannot be further simplified nor justified. The problem however is agreeing on what these basic moral truths are. Moore and WD Ross a fellow intuitionist agreed that pleasure, knowledge and virtue are all intrinsically good, and pain, ignorance and vice are intrinsically bad.
“When you're a beautiful person on the inside, there is nothing in the world that can change that about you. Jealousy is the result of one's lack of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance. The Lesson: If you can't accept yourself, then certainly no one else will.” In Joan Didion’s essay, with the help of periodic sentences and metaphorical language, she explains that self-respect does not come from others but from within oneself; it cannot be achieved when one is averse to oneself. Didion was looking for outer gratification, but through the ordeal of being rejected, gains the knowledge that self-respect is proper value of one’s character, and learning to love oneself. One can only be truly happy when one learns to accept oneself.
People usually have these inner thoughts to themselves, and they wonder if anyone else thinks like this, assuming if you are the only one. Sherry Turkle takes note of that and covers all the questions for why we feel this way when thinking about any object. Basically, from Sherry Turkle’s The Secret Power of Things We Hold Dear, I can infer what an object-to-think-with actually means. It is anything that you sense (i.e. see, feel, smell, taste, and hear) that when your mind dwells on this specific thing, the thoughts are not even remotely related to the ones of another person.
Critical thinking is like a discipline. The ability to think in a lot of different ways, example basic knowledge the ability to think critically. No one is born with the power to think critically, or do they develop this ability naturally beyond survival thinking skills. Critical thinking is an ability that must be taught. A lot of people do not learn it.
I feel bad, but I can’t do anything about it. I guess I’m not feeling much of anything. Identify and explain, using concepts from the text, at least one example of an obstacle to communicating emotions in the situation. We may not have total control over what we feel, but usually we can exert some control. Furthermore, we can exercise substantial control over how we do or don’t express our feelings and to whom we express them.
If we would have stick to only one writer or source we would have only learn one side of the presented issue and taking into consideration our naive nature some would most likely believe that the author is right. Those are people who follow others and never question authority and are perfectly content in their comfort zone. Why bother to change things when everything is going well, one might ask. However, some people when they come across ideas that they do not agree with try to fight for their rights and let their voices to be heard. Some people challenge societies’ beliefs but those are few.
Reality or not, it will always come. There are questions, always different versions of the same question attempted to be answered at some point in life, “Why are we here? Why, what's the point? What should I or can I do?” Yet it seems that humans are awfully blind, not physically, but mentally. The Truth, often right in front of us is avoided subconsciously.
How Much Control Does One Really Have? Human beings have a natural instinct of wanting to have control of the things that happen in their life. Truth is that, this speculation of having all control is false. In most cases humans only have partial control, if any at all. The short stories “That Room” by Tobias Wolff and “Battle Royal” by Ralph Ellison, are ideal samples that demonstrate that humans don’t have as much control as they would like to think.
This question does not suggest that your audience is stupid or uneducated. As we saw in Chapter 1, there is a great deal of confusion today about such matters as free will, truth, knowledge, opinion, and morality. Many intelligent and educated people have fallen victim to ideas and attitudes that cripple their creative and critical faculties. In many cases, your audience will appreciate your insights only if you first help them get beyond their misconceptions. Is Your Audience’s Perspective Likely to Be Narrow?