Liberal Arts‚ and the Advantages of Being Useless| 1 Nicholaos Jones Department of Philosophy University of Alabama in Huntsville nick[DOT]jones[AT]uah[DOT]edu 1 Introductory Remarks The trees of the mountain bring their own destruction. The oil in the lamp burns itself. The cinnamon tree is edible‚ so it is cut down. The varnish tree is useful so it is cut apart. All know the advantage of being useful‚ but no one knows the advantage of being useless. - 莊子 [Zhuangzi] (364-290 BCE)‚ Zhuangzi‚
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In Besi Heads short story "Life" the main character is murdered by her husband. He gets sentenced by a white judge to only a few years in prison. In Heads short story "The Collector of Treasures‚" the protagonist‚ Dikeledi‚ murders her husband and is sentenced to life prison. By putting these two short stories into their historical context to be analyzed‚ it would be so clear that there are certain issues that has been raised during the events of these stories like; sexism‚ representation of women
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Coming down with a sickness can be very disheartening for individuals who anticipate the symptoms to come. It’s expected to experience aches and pains‚ a fever‚ the chills‚ exhaustion‚ and a lack of interest in participating in natural occurring activities - including eating. Why do we experience a loss in appetite when we are fighting off a cold or sickness? Sapolsky claims that it is unclear since it is necessary that we conserve our energy to heal. While the reasons for losing appetite vary upon
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Reading Assignment Sasha Jade McGinley PHI110 (SP2 2013) Open Universities ID: 516616 Macquarie University ID: 43388965 “Letter to Menoeceus” Word Count: 963 Reading 1: Epicurus‚ “Letter to Menoeceus‚” p. 49-50. What argument does he provide for why we should not fear death? What is the ethical purpose of this argument for how we should live our lives? Do you agree with Epicurus’s views? Why or why not? ------------------------------------------------- Epicurus was a hedonist
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Emmanuel Jal is a South Sudanese-Canadian musician‚ actor‚ former child soldier‚ and political activist born in the early 1980’s (Jal is not sure of the exact year) in Tonj‚ South Sudan. Jal is known for once being a child soldier veteran of the Sudanese Civil War‚ he finds his life story and redemption through a message of peace. His story represents one of the most hopeful and inspiring stories of the 21st centuries. Jal has been through a lot in his life. He was born into the most difficult time
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Reaction Paper Freakonomics: Documentary Emmanuel S. Garcia Managerial Economics Land Bank of the Philippines Freakonomics was a good way to introduce the basic concepts of economics applied in everyday living and what we can learn from that. It primary aim seems to open the eyes of the general public to the fact that economics should be a conscious part of our way of life. Generally‚ what it says is that economics is a good tool in understanding and eventually helping us decide important aspects
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Pascal Emmanuel-Gobry is not afraid to share his opinion about prison in his article‚ “Abolish prison.” Right from the start he throws his opinion in his reader’s face by saying prison is possibly the “most astonishingly stupid and inhuman way to punish crime.” Pascal’s article not only expresses his opinion on why prisons are so inhumane‚ but it also provides alternatives that could be taken in case all prisons did fall off the face of the Earth. According to Pascal‚ prisons are the “enemy of rehabilitation”
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UNRAVEL THYSELF: A REACTION PAPER ON EMMANUEL LEVINAS’S DISINTERESTED RESPONSIBILITY “Dare to be different.” (p.220). If you will observe‚ students all look the same. Even though some wear uniforms and some are not‚ they still look like students‚ yet we know that each have their own specific roles‚ each one is different. The only question is how can they stand up and be known by everyone that they do exist. Scholastican’s are known not only because the late Corazon Aquino studied here at
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comes to making decisions relating to their lives and bodies. They are seen as the weakest gender and therefore‚ are manipulated by the society and even their husbands into doing things that they don’t want to do. Guy de Maupassant the author of "A Useless Beauty" explains how women are deprived of the privilege of making their
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Period 9th 18 September 2011 Wisdom From Suffering “Suffering is the price of being alive.”; “make use of suffering.” These straight forward quotes sourced from the thoughts of Judy Collins and Henri-Frederic Amiel are produced from different origins but compatible. Collins’s is stemmed from the idea that suffering cannot be avoided and Amiel’s is from his philosophy of the art of living. Most people try to deny and avoid the path of suffering. Yet‚ they often fail to realize that no matter
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