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Existenz fits fine all things considered in Plato’s hierarchical scheme of reality. On many levels. The first is the fourth wall that is the audience aka us. Our relationship with the film is like the prisoners in the cave. We are shown the film kinda like the prisoners, when (Most) people watch films we tend to believe in the world the movie takes place in (well at least good films do…). We the audience are like the People forced to watch the film Existenz like (how they wereContinue reading “Film Screening “Existenz”: A David Cronenberg film aka Lots of body horror for no reason”

William Clifford wrote in his book “The Ethics of Belief, Section I: The Duty of Inquiry” he said “There was once an island in which some of the inhabitants professed a religion teaching neither the doctrine of original sin nor that of eternal punishment.” A group of people got a suspicion of a teacher of a crime. These men gottenContinue reading “William Clifford, “The Ethics of Belief, Section I: The Duty of Inquiry” Clifford’s uncountable number of men Angry Men”

Hume says that that the self is an illusion. His argument is that we are unable to feel all the of our emotions and our memories at one time. We use these memories as the building blocks of the thing we call the ‘Self’. They are all fleeting moments thus, the self that we create with these building blocks are a sham and not a true representation of the ‘True Self’. And whenContinue reading “blog # 15 Hume, Of Personal Identity: Hume’s Total Recall”

What is cogito? Cogito is a part of a well-known phrase. Cogito, ergo sum is translated in to English as I think, therefore I am. What Descartes is trying to do find a way to prove that the he exists, but he couldn’t find a way to test it. So, Descartes came to the conclusion that since that he is able to think, compilate, and have deeper forms of thought then he must exist thus the phrase Cogito, ergo sum (I think,Continue reading “Blog#14 Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy: Schrodinger’s WAX”

Mr.Tolstoy has a very strange way of defining what art is and how good it is. this is very (Strangely) topical at the moment, Tolstoy says that only good art must have certain qualities to be considered good art. the first he says that a piece of the artist soul must enter (possess) the subject who is viewing the art in question.Continue reading “blog prompt# 11: the disease we call art.”

As it is explained in The Republic: Book X it is said that Plato would remove artist from his “Perfect world” due to their inability to “Explain or to show and merely imitate the Truth” the true idea of an object or push people away from the “truth”. An example is beds, there are different types of beds in the world like king size, quean size, twin size,Continue reading “Blog: The Republic: Book X”

In the Excerpt from William James’s “The Will to believe” he claims that each time there is a hypothesis with two out comes there are three things it could be. (1. Living or dead, forced or avoidable, momentous or trivial) A living option is where the choices are given hold a provable truths or hard facts. A Forced Option is when the question/ hypothesis coroners you in “Forcing” you to answer the hypothesis,Continue reading “William James, “The Will To Believe” blog”

1) Begging the Question: my car is the fastest, because its the only car I’ve been in. thus, its the fastest. 2) Ad Hominem: Steve says that cars that use gas is bad for the environment. But, he’s not a scientist. 3) Equivocation: my friend said i should have some faith. so I wrote itContinue reading “Blog Prompt # 3”

all horses are mammals. all cows are mammals. thus, all cows are horses. 2. all horses are mammals. all mustangs are mammals. thus all mustangs are mammals. 3. if all cars have engines. and all engines go fast. then all cars can go 100 mph. 4. if all cars have engines. and all engines goContinue reading “blog prompt #2”