Spinoza Argument

To portray this, he depicts how something can exist in the mind, but also reality. To further explain this, the analogy of a painter is exemplified. Before a painter illustrates his masterpiece, the painter has an understanding in his mind, yet knows it not to exist; the painter only understands it as a concept. However, upon completion of the masterpiece, the painter will come to understand that the concept exists in his mind, as he had the visual of the painting before he had constructed it, and also in reality, because the painting can now be seen in reality, and can be understood to

Not even three full months into his presidency, President Donald Trump has received massive backlash for even the most miniscule of things. The media coverage that Trump has is unparalleled to any president before him. Journalists from all over the world realize that the President is the biggest story on earth right now, and they do not intend to ease off. Presented with a story as tantalizing as this one, one has to think why would they want to stop? Readers dig the stories the press writes about Trump almost as much as they disagree with what he says. The columnists have made their opinions overtly clear in their writings with the help of rhetorical devices such as metaphors, motifs and paradoxes. They then follow up on this with cherry

The theme that one cannot have happiness without pain is expressed with the literary elements foreshadowing, symbolism, and imagery in

In evaluating the philosopher’s goal of determining how to live a good life, Epicurean philosophers argue that pleasure is the greatest good and pain is the greatest bad. Foremost, for the purpose of this analysis, I must define the pleasure and pain described. Pleasure is seen as the state of being pleased or gratified. This term is defined more specifically by the subject to which the pleasure applies, depending on what he likes. Pain is the opposite of pleasure, which is a type of emotional or physical un-pleasure that results in something that the person dislikes. “Everything in which we rejoice is pleasure, just as everything that distresses us is pain,” (Cicero 1). Through this hedonistic assessment of pleasure and pain, epicurean philosophers come to the conclusion that, “the greatest pleasure [is that] which is perceived once all pain has been removed,” (Epicurus 1).

There is nothing like the feeling of accomplishment after successfully achieving a goal or task without encountering failure. Many may say that happiness is success without having to deal with the problem of disappointment. But what if that idea of happiness is the exact opposite of what it really is? What if the true path to contentment is learning how to be a failure? In the article Happiness is a glass half empty, the author establishes the misconception of how happiness is portrayed by society through irony, antithesis, and by using analogies in order to get the reader thinking about the idea of how failure is the main step to reaching success.

Baruch Spinoza was a Dutch philosopher who was active in the mid to late 17th century. In Spinoza’s ontological argument he attempts to prove the existence of God as the root of all things that everything is created from as well as proving that God is the only true substance. According to Spinoza, “It pertains to the nature of a substance to exist” (Spinoza). This means that Spinoza believes existence is a necessary property of any single thing. Everything that exists is a substance or an affection (mode). This disagrees with other philosophers discussed throughout the course, such as Kant, who felt that existing was not a necessary property and that it could not be assumed

“For no one can feel confident regarding a good which he knows can be taken from him, although he wishes to keep and cherish it. But if a man feels no confidence regarding the good which he enjoys, how can he be happy while in such fear of losing it?” (Augustine 264-267). For example, when you go to a pet shop and see all the cute puppies. You want to hold them and pet them, and it makes you so happy for that brief period. However, you know that the happiness can be taken away from you, because you don’t own the puppies, you don’t get to take them home. Ultimately, you walk away sad, and wishing you could hold on to that happiness just a little longer. It is hard to be confident in a happiness that you know can be taken away from you at any time, and it’s equally as hard to have no confidence in your happiness because you live in fear of never being happy.

In their society, “Feeling lurks in that interval of time between desire and its consumption. Shorten that interval, break down all those old unnecessary barriers” (Huxley 44). While this seems like an ideal situation, if people are never sad or uncomfortable, then they never can experience true happiness. When people become happy after being sad, they appreciate it more and can understand their happiness. Since bad and good are binary oppositions, it is necessary to have one in order to define the other. I would rather suffer through pain if it meant that my happiness was true and

Often advertisements with avoided or heavy messages like to use startling images to draw in a reader's attention and force them to acknowledge the subject. Opon a brief glance the first thing a reader sees is a big gun with a megaphone head attached to one side. The somewhat frightening and very conflicting image has no apparent meaning or point until you see three words in small letters: “Words kill wars.”

A tyrant is a ruler who uses power oppressively and unjustly. This is one of the main themes running throughout Animal Farm. The tyrants in Animal Farm, the pigs, will manipulate the animals, or people, for more power. The pigs use false allegiance to let the animals believe that they are on their side. The most dominating theme of Animal Farm is the tendency for those who support the most virtuous ideas to become the worst enemies of the people whose lives they are claiming to improve.

Over the course of time there have been a multitude of philosophers that have claimed to find the true meaning of happiness. One of these philosophers was Epicurus who originally studied “sensual pleasure” and then moved to a discussion on one’s inner happiness through friendship, freedom, and thought. The Consolation of Philosophy tracks Epicurus’s evolution of philosophical ideas throughout his lifetime to express to the reader how to create a happy and healthy life.

delight is in death and wretchedness? . . . I had resolved in my own mind, that to

What is most real?... In philosophy, ideas are usually construed as mental representational images of

Indeed, Fake holds reality; however, what one engages, with such one, is not, what one imagines and believes about it. Indeed, Fake holds reality;

     Don Quixote is a perfect example of “created reality.” The character Don Quixote is real, and he lives in a real world, but everything that he sees is exaggerated in his mind. It all begins with his name. Don Quixote was not actually a Don. He was a wealthy, intelligent farmer who read too many books about knighthood and went crazy. He convinced a simple-minded peasant named Sancho to become his squire, promising him wealth and a high spot in society. This