Just as the novel mentions, “he spoke as if Daisy’s reaction was the only thing that mattered.” (Fitzgerald, 2001: 192) Gatsby is nimble and ambitious in making money, which shows the “sagacity” of modern people, but towards love he gives us the impression of “a naive young man.” The reader may wonder what makes Gatsby great? Gatsby is great because of his loyalty to love. He has the desire to repeat the past, and the desire for money. For Gatsby, Daisy is the soul of his dreams. He believes he can regain Daisy.
In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, Sometimes it takes a certain situation or problem to occur in life, that makes an individual realize what really matters in life. A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others and their loved ones. There is nothing in the world so wonderful as to love and be loved; there is nothing as devastating as losing a loved one. A relationship that has turned sour is very difficult, both emotionally and mentally. A failing relationship can take away the energy to move forward in life.
How can anyone foresee what will make them happy or unhappy or how they will react or feel about it when it actually does happen? Another author named Michael Mendelsohn, writes an article titled “Positive Psychology: The Science of Happiness”, whereas he concentrates more on the chemistry of happiness. Mendelsohn thinks happiness is a brain condition made up of fifty percent genetics, ten percent circumstances and we control the remaining forty percent with our thoughts and actions. These two authors try to offer an explanation and understanding for why some people are happier than others. “The Pursuit of Happiness” suggests what we imagine occurrences and possessions that we believe would make us happy or unhappy.
Free will means that God does not have any set destiny for us. If God were to create free agents that could only choose good, that would mean that God laid out a destiny of good for all agents. Even though God is omniscient, free will is still possible because while God may know the choices we are going to make, he is not the cause of them. Since God does not choose or cause our destiny, we still have free will. In response to the option in which God creates a world with free agents and no evil, a world with no evil would mean a world with no good, so it would be impossible for God to create a free agents that only choose good, since evil does not exist.
one of the strengths that Kant puts forward in the categorical imperceptive is that it provides justice for all and the dignity of the individual . Kant corrects a tenancy in utilitarianism thoughts to sacrifice an individual for the sake of the happiness of the majority. the insists you cant promote happiness if that happiness undermines another happiness. another strength is that Kant's theory gives humans intrinsic worth as the rational high point of creation. humans can only ever be treated as end in themselves never as means therefor humans cant be expended for some apparent greater good .
We cannot judge God, nor his actions because he is a non cognitive being. Only God knows the future, and therefore when it is appropriate to intervene. Therefore, through miracles he is not favouring some of his creation over others, but the good of the whole creation itself. Furthermore, our free will stops God from intervening in every situation, because according to Swinburne, if we do not have the capacity to damn ourselves, we are not truly free agents. However this does not necessarily overcome the problem of God favouring his creation because by having the ability to intervene, but not at every moment he can prevent evil from happening to some but not too others.
The prime mover is the thing that created everything and exists by necessity, therefore has to exist. It is perfect and cannot change, as the ability to change would mean that it is not perfect. This also means it is pure good as a lack of goodness means you can do better and doing better would require change. The prime mover cannot interact with the physical world and has no plan for us, going against the idea of God, the prime mover most people believe in. The prime mover is the unmoved mover, this is similar to the domino effect were someone (the prime mover) nocks over a domino causing the adjacent dominos to topple as well but the starter of the chain reaction is unmoved itself.
Happiness can mean several different things; joy, cheerful, bliss and hopeful. For some people, the definition of happiness seems to be avoiding pain at all costs. The problem with defining happiness seems to be an epidemic disparity with what it means to be happy. There is no one way to define this state of being we are all craving to reach. It is as if it depends on what level of for example Maslow’s hierarchy of self-growth.
Then, what is he doing in this last quote? Classic examples of being a phony, saying something you do not mean. In reality Holden is just like everyone else. He just wants to succeed have a nice future for himself. He just envies people that are already successful, which is why he calls them a
* God is perfect being – where did idea come from? Is it a creation of the mind? * Cannot be thought of because we are imperfect beings, and if everything has a cause, when we think of a perfect being, it must have been caused by a perfect being * Cause of anything is at least as real as that thing (if A caused B, A = or > B) * Idea is just as real as cause – cause is just as real as the thing it caused No imperfect being can be the cause of the idea of a perfect being. Cannot know what God is, but can possess a positive idea of what is perfect CARTESIAN CIRCLE * In order to prove God’s existence he has to use the very ideas that God’s existence was supposed to guarantee * God guarantee’s truthfulness of one’s ideas, but my ideas guarantee that God