The Devil : Subjective Objectivity

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However, since God is all good and cannot create anything that is evil, the devil cannot use God’s creations without first twisting them to fit his evil plans. The devil is a skillful perverter and often uses holy images or thoughts to lead people to sin. In Chapter 2, while in church, Wormwood presents to his patient the fact that the people around him are neighbors whom he has been trying to avoid.[ii] Soon, the man becomes annoyed with his fellow churchgoers, focusing on how their faults bother him instead of paying attention to the liturgy.[iii] While attending Church is a holy and commendable action, the devil encourages his patient, who is not wholly satisfied with his present church, to visit several churches and become a “church connoisseur.”[iv] Instead of a place of worship, the church becomes akin to a club, each with different opinions and factions. In Chapter 3, Screwtape suggests using prayer as a way to tempt Wormwood’s patient. Instead of praying for the well-being of his mother, Wormwood tempts him to pray for her soul, pinpointing her faults that irritate him, never once stopping to consider if he himself exhibits the same faults.[v] While friends can lead us closer to God, the devil can take advantage of our need for companions by introducing us to corrupt peers who lead us away from God. While Screwtape, in Chapter 11, states that he cannot stand joy

"Moral Objectivism: The view that what is right or wrong doesn"t depend on what anyone thinks is right or wrong. That is, the view that the 'moral facts ' are like 'physical ' facts in that what the facts are does not depend on what anyone thinks they are. Objectivist theories tend to come in two sorts:"(1)

As people grow up, it is made apparent to them that the Devil is an evil and rather a clever person. The greatest example of the devil in action is when the devil tempts Jesus. As most know, the devil fails to get Jesus to do evil. Jesus is both human and divine while the main character of The Devil and Tom Walker, Tom Walker, is a “meager, miserly fellow”. Unfortunately, Tom Walker is not Jesus so the reader must focus in on Washington Irving’s The Devil and Tom Walker to see just exactly how and when the Devil won his game. Irving portrays to the reader that the devil cannot be beaten at his own game through setting, characters, and plot. As people have seen in sports, the setting of a game (where, when, weather, etc.) can have a big impact on the game. The same goes for The Devil and Tom Walker.

Kyle, I like how you pointed out that Haskell stated that he agrees with Novick on several issues, but that it is the issue of objectivity and its view where they differ. Personally, I think Haskell’s attempt to show the reader that he shares common ground with Novick. While, I agree that “responsible research” as you stated, can attempt to show an objective viewpoint, I think there will always be some opinionated motive to a historian’s research. The question that I would like to ask is if neutrality is shown, as Novick suggests, through “generations of historians” that are merely writing their histories because of the views of their predecessors (Novick, 16)? Regarding Novick’s views on this point, I feel that a historian who lived during a period that they are writing about will hold a different perspective than a historian who was born after and writes about an event later. In regards to presenting some form of objectivity, I ponder that a historian can do this by stating their personal bias and including the stance of other historians on the same topic.

1. The Devil is not given any singing lines, rather, is directed to shout his lines. Given the idea that music is the imitation of divine harmony, the Devil should take no part in music.

In the short story "The Devil & Tom Walker" by Washington Irving, the main character's fate is going to hell because of his wrong decisions in life when he sold his soul to the Devil for wealth. Washington Irving reinforces his message about why you shouldn’t make decisions that may damn your soul with the use of romantic literary elements and satire. Religion was widely written about during 1824, the year “The Devil and Tom Walker” was written, due to the large religious population and the fascination with the Devil as an evil wandering spirit. When writing, Irving combines characterization with mood/setting to perpetuate the theme of romanticism in the story for the reader's mind.

how groovy it is to be Satan. Never has it been sung in a more appropriate setting.” The

Is there such a thing as moral objectives? Moral Objectivity is a moral fact that is independent of a person’s moral opinion. Therefore saying, there are moral rights and wrongs or facts that are present whether a person believes in them or not. There are two types of people the first are those who believe in moral objectives called Objectivist and the second are those who believe there are no moral objectives called Subjectivist. I do not believe in moral objectives, I believe that morals and ethics are made up by a society to control and regulate behavior, therefore I am a subjectivist.

A conversation has been struck up in which Bon-Bon urges the Devil to wax philosophically in order to obtain a few ethical ideas that would undoubtedly make him famous if they were to be published. The Devil tells Bon-Bon that he has never had eyes which is why he can penetrate so deeply into the minds and souls of those that he encounters.

Teaching Objectivism to the courtroom, Rearden is attacking the Collectivist philosophy by accepting reality; that one must produce for their own self-interest in order to pursue their own happiness. This moral code he is condemning breaks the law of existence: “A is A (1038)”. If A is not A, a person’s sole motive to live is not for himself, rather, to live for others. This premise of self-sacrifice denies reality, reason, and logic in place of faith, charity, and force. When Rearden declares “The public good be damned, I will have no part of it!” he condemns this irrational value system that promotes using oneself as a sacrificial animal and its methods of gaining control: by debilitating the producers and general public. The producers, through their guilt and force; the public at large by draining their capacity to think.

As Mahatma Gandhi said, "Man often becomes what he believes himself to be." Therefore, if you feel that you are a very stressed person or doomed to feel stressed out, then you will likely find ways to manifest that stress through your perception on life. In addition, you won 't even bother to learn how to deal with stress because you won 't believe you can.

The concept of ‘rationality’ has been talked through the centuries. According to Grey (2013), rationality is a big question because of this proposition which has the meaning and difficulties seem to be defining of a whole set of issues which have resonated through both organisation theory and practice ever since. And rationality is the basis of a decision, rational decision makers are objective and logical, they reach the goal that maximises the value. Not only rationality is important to organisations, and also it can be identified in various kinds of management theories. This essay will introduce the different aspects of the concept of ‘rationality’ and make explanations that how these are recognised in different management theories.

In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche discusses how he is not a believer in democracy. The principles of democracy were put together by levelers, or people that believe in democracy. These principles lead to equality that restrains life to one universal truth and Nietzsche did not agree with this idea at all. He believed that these principles caused people to form into one large herd. In this herd, people follow one another with no will to power, which results in the downfall of individual rights and instincts. This makes the herd the definition of morality in society, which Nietzsche disagrees with. But he brings up the idea of neighbor love. Neighbor love is the idea that we are all in one herd so we are all equal which creates us to all

Objectivity is a funny way of people justifying their own subjections. Edmund Husserl is the guy to talk to if you want to be confused by what “objectivity” means. I say confused, because Husserl’s path through the end product of the phenomenological reduction leads him to contradictions, which generate revisions of his investigation. Eventually his revisions lead to a happy phenomenological-objective ending and will be discussed along with another objectivity viewpoint: The View from Nowhere. Lastly I’ll give you my objective/subjective opinion on which “objectivity” I think is more convincing.