Rauch also states that though prejudice may be misguided belief, there is no need to choose sides and that is the beauty of intellectual pluralism. Rauch’s essay states that knowledge is what leads to pluralism and more knowledge is not necessarily a good thing. By saying, “We cannot know in advance or for sure which belief is prejudice and which is truth, but to advanced knowledge we don’t need to know”, (393), he supports his idea. But in order to gain intellect on anything, you have to have knowledge. At the end of the day, we survive on basic knowledge.
In this case, the cause would be social conditioning – Baroch Spinoza said that although we may think that we are free, we are not, we are merely aware of our actions. “In the mind there is no absolute or free will; but the mind is determined to will this or that by a cause, which has been determined by another cause, and this last by another cause, and so on until infinity.” This emphasizes the fact that we are contingent beings, and that although we feel that we have options in life, the choices that we make are in the end determined my one single factor, which started a chain reaction creating the world we live in today. The surrounding and environment we are brought up into and therefore the upbringing and social conditioning we receive it determined. Our actions are due to how
Keeping my emotions in check will help me to think clearly and guide constructive communication; trying to dominate the resolution process will only frustrate the opposition. I will constructively listen to the thoughts and ideas of others and consider them honestly instead of trying to have my own way all of the time. My goal is to defeat my attitude of being a perfectionist. The key is being able to allow myself to make and except the mistakes of others. I do not have to be the best at everything.
Dissoi Logoi contains opposing arguments that can be argued either way. Its relevance to Rhetoric is that it allows us as readers to see that no argument can be made both bad and good, just and unjust, seemly and shameless. In our own minds we know right versus wrong, but not everyone has the same vision of what is right and what is wrong. What is wrong to one can be right to another and vice versa which appeals to the logos aspect of rhetoric. These notion of contradiction within this writing are rhetoric.
Some might need more help than others. • Inclusion is about ensuring that there are no barriers that would exclude people or make it difficult for them to fully participate in the society. For example, in the planning, my service user will always be at the centre of the planning when I want to support him. 1.2 Describe the potential effects of discrimination. Discrimination is when one is been treated less favourably than others and has most of the times damaging effect.
The connection between critical thinking and ethics is that there are no general hard and fast rules regarding the application of ethics in various situations, which is especially pertinent considering the fact that what may be ethical in one situation may be considered unethical in another context. I use my reasoning skills (rationality) to determine both the universal rules that each person should follow (autonomy)and the process that will assure fairness and justice for all in the community. My blind spot my belief that motive justifies method or overconfidence in process. I believe that a consistent process results in a just outcome for all, I sometimes trust the process too much. Ethics plays a very important role in a professional setting.
In other words, we convert the unclear pictures generated by our eyes into something that makes sense based on our understanding of the world. For instance, psychologists have stated that humans are prone to being deceived by illusions as we tend to look at the illusion to the way we understand the illusion itself. This is prone to error as our understanding of the illusion can be different to what is actually present. If we rely too much on what we see, we are also prone to making false conclusions and
I have always thought I was more likely to use my feelings to make decisions rather than what my head tells me – but this assessment says otherwise. I have always been known as an extrovert, so for the assessment report to state that I “tend to focus on the outer world of people and activity” – validates the thoughts I have about myself. I believe these Career Assessments were very informative. The list of most popular and least popular occupations for each type is, in my opinion, the most helpful information in the entire report. As I previously mentioned, I am not certain on what I want to do for a career so the fact that the report disclosed a few job families and occupations that suit my type the best, was very
Consequentialism assumes that if human being would weigh the outcome of their taboos and beliefs, then happiness can be achieved and pain reduced. But utilitarianism assumes that people can only value a virtue if it is deemed beneficial in accomplishing human happiness. For example utilitarians believe that truth will make a better society while consequentialists believe that truth will make a better society only if the outcome causes no harm. Basically utilitarianism assumes that the wrongness or rightness of an act depends on the moral good produced as a result of doing that act. This implies that an act is right if it minimizes violation of a certain moral right thus no one should violate moral rights for happiness sake and be justified.
According to an ethical egoist, it is acceptable for a person to do whatever is in his or her own interests, regardless of the effect it has on others. In this reading, Rachels first begins by challenging the view that everyone always does what they want by showing that we often do unpleasant tasks for future pleasures or from feelings of obligations. For instance, doing something that we may not want to do, but we do it anyways to achieve something in the end, like going to work to receive a paycheck. The other is doing something in which we do not want to do, but do it because we feel we have an obligation to do them such as doing something because we promised someone that we would, and we don’t want to break our promises. Rachel goes on to challenge this argument by saying that people don’t want to what they feel obligated to do.