Dichotomy

After reading chapter five I noticed cognitive dissonance throughout a large portion of the book. Cognitive dissonance was described in class as being a situation involving conflicting attitudes, beliefs, or behaviors. A good example of this was found on page 182 where the author writes about how we all tell our self that African Americans “deserve” all of this even though we know, but do not want to acknowledge that white Americans are less likely to be convicted of the same crime done by blacks. Cognitive dissonance applies here because we know that this mass incarceration is not fair or morally right to do, however, our behavior does not try to stop it from happening. Instead of doing what our beliefs say is right we try to convince ourselves that it is the African Americans fault that they are

The character of a nation can be discovered or disclosed in the way that it treats its indigenous population, I have chosen Japan and Australia for my comparison and will be giving a brief summary about the Japanese Ainu People and the Australian Aborigines, their histories as we know them and how they have been treated by the peoples that have taken over the lands to which they themselves had laid claim as their own thousands of years beforehand.

Meno 's paradox is a very prevalent paradox in the area of philosophy. It arises during a conversation between Socrates and Meno in the book Five Dialogues. Meno and Socrates are speaking about what virtue is when Meno raises an interesting point, “How will you look for it, Socrates, when you do not know at all what it is? How will you aim to search for something you do not know at all? If you should meet with it, how will you know that this is the thing that you did not know?” (p. 70). In simple terms, Meno is asking Socrates how he will

I found an editorial that had a clear logical fallacy, which was a false dichotomy, in the title of the editorial, but as I read I found a few more invalid arguments. The invalid argument of the editorial that I found, which is titled “If You Don’t Like Either Candidate, Then Vote for Trump’s Policies,” states that voters have two choices: “vote for Trump or help Hillary Clinton get elected.” This invalid argument, written by Wayne Grudem, is a false dichotomy in which Grudem states that voters must choose between Trump and Clinton without giving voters an option between a write-in or a third party candidate. If Grudem were to win his argument, it would most likely result in having an effect on voters in which they feel they should vote for

“I am headed to Thrace to find a man named Spartacus” Damon said. “I am to find him as well young boy, tell me where do you come from?” Achilles asked. The young boy said he comes from the village of Savitar. “My name is Achilles” he said. “Achilles, the warrior who led in the Trojan war?” Damon asked. “Yes” Achilles said. Damon thought that if goes with Achilles, he can show him where Spartacus is.

In this paper I will be talking about Crito trying to help Socrates escape imprisonment and how Socrates responds. I will also be talking about the analogy of the athlete and trainer and how it directly relates to the situation they are currently in. Along with the Analogy that is used, I will discuss why Socrates does not want to flee the city and why he believes that it is morally wrong to do so.

When it comes to cultural dissonance. First, we should understand what culture is. Culture is what you are not willing to accept but the rules and knowledge of the past. The benefits of these rules and perceptions in most people in practice may benefit from or believe in. Therefore, these rules and knowledge have become the majority of contemporary people's choice. This constitutes the content of the cultural subject. However, if this rule or understanding has been completely proved by objective practice, it will not adhere to it, and it has the cultural renewal capability. Therefore, the culture is mainly the rules and knowledge which are difficult to give the final verdict (belonging to the value and philosophy level), and have four characteristics of subjectivity, continuity, mass and usefulness. Cultural dissonance is a phenomenon. This refers to the fact that when individuals who are involved in a wide variety of cultures face a conflict between the rules of one culture and the rules of another. That is, when the values of culture conflict with the values of another culture. Cultural dissonance is happen every day. It is easy to imagine a recent group of immigrants from an international setting. Typical conflicts include moral, spiritual, and even identity levels. Such as fashion, entertainment and speech. However, the concept of cultural dissonance may occur even in people with common national backgrounds. There are two examples of cultural differences between

Separate but equal is a doctrine that separated any and everything that had to do with blacks and whites. This doctrine made it so all public facilities like water fountains, restrooms, restaurants, and schools were separate based on skin color. Blacks were not able to attend to white schools. They did not want them to be educated because then they could have the risk of losing their jobs to them. So they were giving less books and attention and were put in different schools. They also would have to give up anything to the whites and call them by Mr. or Ms.. The whites however would just call them by their first name. A black man could never introduce themself, a white person had to. If a white person wanted a seat on the bus the black person would have to get up and go

To what degree are we free to choose and create our own destiny? We are more free than people think. In today’s society we have the ability to choose what, where, and how we do things ninety-five percent of the time. To relate this to the novel The Other Side, is every class, race, and religion free to choose and create their own destiny? As a Caucasian and upper class young woman, I have had little restrictions throughout my life. I was able to attend a college preparatory high school that gave me the advantage to prepare for a promising future. Compared to Wes, I am living the life many children pray for. His father passed away, his brother was a drug dealer, and his dreams would never come true because of the little resources he had. I

Achilles on the other hand is only worried about himself. He retreated from battle because he was “the only Greek from whom [Agamemnon] took

These lead us to the implicit premises underlying the argument about Achilles and the Tortoise. First, Achilles always takes some amount of time to cover a certain distance. And though the Tortoise is slow, it is always moving ahead. Because the animal covers some distance in every interval of time, it seems impossible to know the time at the end of which Achilles has caught the Tortoise. Therefore, we can infer from the premises that in each moment that Achilles must be catching up the distance between them, the Tortoise will be adding a new distance however

Before discussing the idea of paradoxes, I will first describe what a paradox is. A paradox, strictly speaking, is when a theory with logical premises leads to the creation of two logical, but contradictory, conclusion. This definition of paradox works, but is very limited in scope of what we can classify as a paradox. Thus modifying the definition of a paradox to mean an argument that leads to wildly different conclusion… . Using this understanding of paradox, I will give a famous example of a paradox thought up by the Greek philosopher Zeno.

The government does make some policies that make the citizens have some mixed feelings about them (Bauman, 2013). This state is known as ambivalence. The laws that the government makes should give confidence to the people and remind them that they have a strong government. It is very evident that not all the laws made by the government will create a full satisfaction to its citizens. In his article, am going to address an experience of ambivalence and the desire to reverse the growth of the government in this context.

As soon as we are exposed to Achilles in battle, it is obvious why he is the hero of the

Achilles suddenly moves backwards as the low angle shot zooms out to view his entire upper body, still demonstrating him in a position of power.