Skepticism makes a person questions ideas toward multiple things such as knowledge or opinions that are stated as if it is true like facts. Rene Descartes argument for skepticism is to not believe every doubt that you give yourself. In his words "withstand all doubt because the evidence of our senses sometimes misleads us, it does not provide a secure basis for knowledge. We cannot be certain that we are awake and not dreaming." His argument can be argued because people have senses that can guide them to doubt themselves by the way people talk to them or other people actions.
This idea links to predestination in the fact that it believes everything in the universe- even human action- has a cause which precedes it. This is based upon science, as if it wasn’t case that one event or set of circumstances lead to another, scientific observations and conclusions drawn from that, then it would be both meaningless and pointless.
Christopher Harris AP BIO October 31st, 2009 In the movie Gattaca, there are many attitudes toward the idea that one’s genes can determineone’s future. The two main characters, Vincent and Irene, have two contrasting ideas about genes and fate. Vincent believes genes do not foresee someone’s future, even stating that “there is nogene for fate.” He believes anyone can succeed in life whether they are superior in health or crippled. When Vincent was younger, he used to race his older “valid” brother Anton in the water. Anton beat Vincent every time until one day Vincent was able to beat him.
While the master plan to blind the Cyclops was incredibly successful, he did something severely wrong while leaving the island. Not knowing of the consequences that might occur, Odysseus shouted his real name to the Cyclops, which essentially caused him a great deal of trouble afterwards. ”Hear me Poseidon…Grant that Odysseus / Son of Laertes, / May never reach his home on Ithaca. “ (Book 9, 22-25) prays Polyphemus. Thus Poseidon further delays Odysseus’ trip and makes it just that much harder for him to return to Ithaca.
Philosophy, much like science provides so many questions, but the only proofs that can be shown with philosophy are assumptions. Science concludes that dreams are thoughts or memories we recount when we sleep and although the experiences are not real, the emotions attached to them are. Although there is not a definite conclusion to dreaming, that does not disregard the science behind what scientists have found from experiments. Descartes’ dream argument states that he cannot know dream from reality and that he could be dreaming without knowing. To those who doubt that assumption he tries to use God as an example of a deceiver, stating that God has the power to deceive our view of the world (reality).
Most readers found it hard to point out the main point because of the way idea are presented within the text. The author didn’t do a good job with the flow of ideas because in the beginning of the story, he exposed the readers to the main character shame behavior. The main character Achilles refuse to fight with the Greeks because king Agamemnon took the girl (Briseis) that was given to him as a prize for being a great soldier. When asked to go fight the Trojan, Achilles further responded “Well, I’m going back to Phthia now” (page 6). The author shouldn’t disgrace the main character in the beginning of the story if he were to praise him in later part of the story since, this confuse the readers.
Parmenides rejected pluralism and the reality of any kind of change: for him all was one indivisible, unchanging reality, and any appearances to the contrary were illusions, to be dispelled by reason and revelation. Not surprisingly, this philosophy found many critics,
Camus’ philosophical beliefs are evident throughout his first work, The Stranger. Meursault, much like Camus, believes that many things in the world just exist, with no explanation or reason. The philosophy that our reality is nonsensical and illogical is a reoccurring motif through the story with Raymond Sintes one point exclaiming “It’s just that I’m here, and you are there and I’m shaking. I can’t help it.” (Camus 37). Meursault is also described as being very dismissive to the outside world, “Looking back on it, I wasn’t unhappy.
There is a distinct line that separates these so called "reality" television shows from the authenticity of real life. Reality television shows may seem convincingly real to the naked eye, but they do not accurately portray "real life". One has to first take note of the environment all of these contestants are set in. Majority of the time they are set in very unlikely settings that would normally never happen in the real world. Film producers and directors are paid to creatively manipulate the settings contestants are placed in, in an effort to keep the audience's attention captivated.
“The Enemies of Reason” “There are two ways of looking at the world, through faith and superstition, or through the rigors of logic, observation, and evidence through reason.” I believe this statement is true since there are those who believe things such as superstition and psychics can help you through life and there are those who base life off of hard evidence and facts. Richard Dawkins does not completely understand why people put faith in mediation and astrology. They are ways of having hope and a way to just relax because we are constantly stressed. People don’t have all the answers to life, so they turn to superstition and parapsychology to make decisions. We have done studies, such as the Wiseman study in Chapter 2, stating that psychics and everyday students have nearly the same results at predicting statements, yet people still pay to have their “minds read” or “predict the future.” It is fine to choose to believe in the irrational, but accepting money is another story.