Blasé Project

1.1 Explain how individuals can benefit from being as independent as possible in the tasks of daily living

(1) Respect for persons: “Treating persons as autonomous agents and protecting those with diminished autonomy”. (Individuals with lessen autonomy are entitled to protection).

All of the above, Kant was the philosopher of human autonomy. He was of the view that human beings can determine and manage to live up to the basic principles of knowledge and action without assistance of anyone else, even without any divine support or intervention (Guyer). In this paper we will discuss the extent to which Kant's view of human nature provides a sustainable ground work for his views on the relationship between nations. In order to determine this, different opinions of Kant will be discussed regarding what his views about the human nature and how he compared it with the nations or states.

1.1 Explain how individuals can benefit from being as independent as possible in the tasks of daily living?

Some of the most redefining and revolutionary moments in the history of man socially, have been catalyzed by use of art. Throughout the age’s music, imagery and poetry have been a fundamental tool in reaching out to the masses to condemn vices, motivate people and bring awareness. One cannot underestimate the impact that art has in influencing and communicating an idea to the people. Art is an integral ingredient in the cohesion and integration of any society. Through poetry, the poet is able to put across a message that resonates in the minds of the reader in an artistic manner that ultimately triggers a response. Art is therefore a force to reckon with in the transformation of a society or a regime.

Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel in his speech, “The Perils of Indifference,” stresses that becoming indifferent is the most dangerous thing that can happen to a person and their surroundings. He supports his claim by first defining and describing indifference, he then talks about how it can be described in many different ways, but ultimately indifference is the end. Wiesel’s purpose is to warn his audience against the dangers of insouciance and its effects on the world. He establishes and apprehensive tone for his audience due to the traumatizing events of his past.

Writer and Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel in his influential speech “The Perils of Indifference” claims that indifference is a problem and not feeling is what we should avoid. He develops his message through details of his experience living during the holocaust. Specifically, paragraph 9 talks about how people there had lost who they were during their time there.Finally, he talks about other people during some events. Wiesel’s purpose is to inform people in order to keep them from being indifferent. He creates an uprising tone for readers by using stylistic devices and rhetorical devices such as similes, metaphors, and imagery in order to develop his message that indifference is a terrible belief. Ultimately, Wiesel’s message about the inhumanity of indifference and the importance of resistance is still relevant today.

In our society people are given the freedom to act, interact and make choices as individuals. Everyone can interact with each other and they are allowed to pick a job or career. After people pick their job of choice they work to make and provide for their families. They are also allowed to pick a new career if the one they have doesn’t satisfy them. People are individually known and not characterized by just the job position that they have. Knowing these characteristics of individualism helps to understand why it is the base for today’s

At last, if neediness speaks the truth the loss of individual self-governance, the attention will be on expanding the autonomy and moral obligation of every needy individual. These options, now and again covering however frequently clashing, typify individually the communist, traditionalist and liberal perspectives

“…To speak of the mutual constitution of personal lives and social policy is to suggest that each of these contributes to the formation of the other. ” Explain and illustrate this statement.

Ever since we are born we have someone looking over us, someone guiding us, someone telling us what to do. This concept carries into our culture and interweaves itself into every aspect of our lives. Our first steps out into the world on our own, away from our parents, is to go to school. Here we are governed primarily by our teachers, but also by the school administrators. When it comes time to complete our educations and embark, finally, into the real world to be by ourselves, to make our own decisions we are met with are rude awakening. Out here we are faced with the simple reality that we will never be free from someone looking over us. Our government watches us through the eyes of the local law enforcement. Our bosses watch us through our shift managers. Our landlords watch us through routine inspections. It seems we can never escape or truly be

However, every person in one’s life will have an effect whether it is directly or indirectly, will affect someone and how they perceive themselves. The desire of living in a livable world without judgment of any implications of that person isn’t an ideal virtue. In every part of life there are experiences in which we take hold from the outside and undergo a transformation, such as childhood. We’re exposed to so many indeterminable factors whether its race, social or bodily construction, that we don’t realize how we are changing and slowly morphing into society’s version of “traditional” or “standard”. “ But this is only because to live is to live a life politically, in relation to power, in relation to others, in the act of assuming responsibility for a collective future” (Butler 131). We’re made to believe that order is systematic to prosperity. We live a life where there is no individual power since we are succumbed to the appeal and desire for recognition of others. Initially we can’t escape the thought-provoking questionable matter of what makes us, us, for that reason we’ve been morphed in a course of direction that was already paved out for us; our bodies don’t belong to us but is a public

My paintings give material form to the human tendencies to compartimentalize, and desegregate, both nature and our built environments. In each two-dimensional work, I start with an impression ---a feeling, a memory, a childhood friend, a family member, or a location---and build the forms using patches of color, showing my own habit of separating parts of the world around me into smaller, consumable parts. For example, in L.A. Bus Routes, I utilized my frustration with the pervading image of Los Angeles’s car-riding culture by making a largely unspoken bus-riding culture take center stage. I drew lines with colored pencil representing the L.A.’s city blocks defined by bus routes surrounding my East Hollywood home. Fluidly, colors bled into others where watercolored shapes met, representing the permeable borders of neighborhoods in L.A. My work questions the fabric of social dissonances using a patchwork of watercolor, gouache and pencil marks that suggest a human need to compartmentalize aspects of our surroundings, our selves, and

     Freedom of individuality is seen as the essential form of freedom according to Mill. The freedom of thought and speech, discussed in Chapter 2, do play a pivotal role in ensuring freedom, however, they are viewed more as a means to an end rather than being something that should be pursued for its own good. The freedom of individuality is essential for human progress and development and “it is only the cultivation of individuality which produces, or can produce, well-developed human beings” (Mill 70). It is this stressed importance on the importance of

2. That to be most fully "human" requires individual choice and development by cooperative action with identifiable but demanding conditions.