The Most Monumental Undertaking Of Modern Philosophy

5. Radel and colleagues (2011) conducted a study of how feeling overly controlled makes you desire—even unconsciously—more freedom. In their study, 52 Canadian undergraduates played a video game in a laboratory and were randomly assigned to either:

Imagine someone dying from a sickness. They know that they are on their last leg. They can either fight to stay alive, or they can give up hope and pass away. People control their own fate. Controlling their own fate means that they decide when it is time for them to die, and don’t just lay down and accept death. This idea can be seen in in many pieces of text including the following poems. “Invictus” by William Ernest Henley and “Do not go gentle into that good night” by Dylan Thomas. Both authors express the theme of people control their own fate.

Have you ever been in a situation where you tried to control someone to get your way but the complete opposite happens. A Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare, is an example of control because each character tries to gain control to get what they want. One of the characters in the play is Egeus who tries to control his daughter, Hermia, into marrying Demetrius but she doesn’t love him, she loves Lysander. He is to blame, because he is the reason why this whole conflict even began. Due to this I believe that the case is made that it is not possible to control others.

To be able to have control over a situation, first you need to have control over yourself. We can use as an example Stephen King´s novel Cujo written in 1981. In the book, Donna Trenton´s four year-old son dies and the reason for that is because Donna wasn´t able to grasp control of the situation. Her desperation didn´t allow her to think clearly and she never actually stopped and tried to figure out a solid plan, she just did everything as she went along. If Donna had been able to have control over herself and stop her desperation from clouding her mind, she might have been able to

Sometimes having control can go another way which could be happiness. The play A midsummer night’s dream is a example of this like how Hippolyta and Theseus both take control in confessing their love to each other and that leads to them getting married. “‘Now, fair Hippolyta, Our nuptial hour draws on apace. Four happy days bring in another moon’”. (I.i.1-3) You can tell by reading this quote that there is happiness in their voice and happiness by tracking the days till their wedding. This is how gaining control can lead to happiness by two people’s love for eachother like Theseus and Hippolyta. Also in the movie She’s the man at the end Viola tells the truth and they all forgive each other which makes everybody happy.

There are certain things that are in the control of the humans, at the same time there are several things, which are not under the human’s control. Thus, to persist a happy life, the humans are required to put an end their desire such that the satisfaction of

The predominant example of control amongst the Tutsis genocide survivor, Immaculee is demonstrated when she is in hiding from the Hutus. When life's difficult moments approach, many tend to look at the uncontrollable aspect, because they believe it to be a lack of success within their life. But the moment someone fails to control themselves, they lose the ability to achieve their goals. The key to having self control is to obtain emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence is the ability to understand and be able to manage emotions in a positive way to be able to overcome challenges.

Hirshi and Gottfredson explain in their theory that self-control is a major attribute that factors into the

In the Thirteenth Rock Edict, Ashoka, the greatest Mauryan king of India, points out that he desired to have self-control. This is the act of self-denial and the ability to control your impulses. Ashoka obviously considered this to be a virtue and in

Cephalus argues that finding old age as a “good thing” will depend on whether you have the disposition

(ACT) can improve one’s health through learning the processes of how to accept willingly what is actually in our personal control. The aim is not to fight or struggle with our internal thoughts, but to understand what isn’t in our control, and accept what is going on, and how to deal with that. Now its human nature to try and control our thoughts or to the contrary we may just tend to avoid them. However, efforts to control or elimination these can actually interfere and create barriers with moving toward personally-identified and valued goals.

An individual’s personal control plays a vital part in the ability to just enjoy life as it is. Some people have no cares in the world but also may have little motivation to achieve goals. I feel having the right level of control in your life is very important to happiness. “In modern cognitive theories of OCD, control issues are implied in the concept of inflated responsibility, which involves attributing to oneself exaggerated “power which is pivotal to bring about or prevent subjectively crucial negative outcomes” (Salkovskis, 1996, pp. 110–111).

Control is a key element which develops the theme of the frailties of human nature through all four texts.

Humans desire to have control over the many things which affect them. Being unable to control something, especially something which can cause damage and

Upon talking about the history of modern philosophy, one of the most important philosophers, who is considered as the father of the philosophy in this period, is Descartes. He was a pioneer for the movement of the new trend of philosophy and became a break between the medieval philosophy and the modern philosophy. Being educated in the environment of medieval philosophy, specifically in the school of Jesuits, Descartes received the system of scholastic philosophy as his foundation for making a new start into the history of philosophy. In his life, Descartes tried to establish a system of philosophy which was suitable to the development of society and science. To do that, he did not collapse pre-philosophical systems, but somehow he ignored their values. In his Meditations he says “Once in my life I had to raze everything to the ground and begin again from the original foundations, if I wanted to establish anything firm and lasting in the sciences.” Therefore, he just could begin a new system of philosophy which, he thought, would be a certain and firm foundation to get knowledge. However, to build up the principles for this foundation, Descartes had to use the concept of God in his arguments. The existence of God became an important means for the construction of his new philosophical system. Hence, I will emphasize on the importance of God in this paper by discovering the role of God as a means in Descartes’ main points of reasoning, particularly God with the method of