“The Experience Machine‚” Robert Nozrick (1974) presents a fascinating argument against hedonism. According to the hedonist‚ the only intrinsic good thing is pleasure‚ and the only intrinsic bad thing is pain. Thus‚ if one does something that doesn’t give them pleasure‚ or enable them to avoid pain‚ then the hedonist would argue that it doesn’t seem as though that thing is good for you. Norzick disagrees vehemently with this view. He argues that the good life isn’t solely dependent on the quality
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“We see and understand things not as they are but as we are.” Discuss this claim in relation to at least two ways of knowing. The way we attain knowledge will determine how we see and understand things‚ but no matter how we see and understand them‚ it will never bring us to the objective truth. We use our perception to “see” things and we use our reasoning to “understand” things. It is common‚ if not inevitable‚ for us to manipulate the information received using the ways of knowing into what
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We are responsible for who we become Who am I? Who will I become? These are questions asked many times over as we constantly feel the need to define ourselves. Many people believe that a person can be defined as a collection of all his or her actions. However‚ this view is not entirely correct. It is not just our actions that define who we are or who we will become‚ but It is also our morals and values‚ the parenting that we received‚ our circumstance‚ our friends and family and society as a whole
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In The Other Wes Moore‚ Wes reveals his confusion with his own motivations to the audience. I believe that he was so driven to understand the other Wes Moore because of the realization that that could’ve been him. The two Wes Moores had similar upbringings; Both lived in very poor areas with high crime and violence surrounding them. Wes was confused because they both didn’t end up the same way. He was successful while the other Wes was not. Both men grew up without a strong father figure in their
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journeys are exciting and potentially dangerous. They can take you to exotic and mysterious places‚ where if you are perceptive‚ you can grow in maturity and wisdom. This is a true statement that can only be discussed fully with reference to The Time Machine. The imagined world in the text is placed into the future. It is a vision of a troubled future. A dystopia inhabited by Eloi and Morlocks. The Eloi are a beautiful‚ friendly and fragile race of small creatures. The Morlocks are a futuristic equivalent
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It was now or never in the white room full of beeping machines surrounding me. The doctor had just told me that I was dying. My heart sunk to the ground as hard as an anchor. The ghost-like faces in the room were my parents‚ as they sat there more lost than ever. I now knew I had to fight not only for my life‚ but with myself. Remembering the sting of the tube down my throat and IV in my arm‚ I reluctantly moved closer to the plate. This plate full of food staring at me was now my medicine. It took
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also felt that “they may exacerbate unwarranted and unjust disparities that are already far too common in our criminal justice system and in our society”. The Sentencing Commission did not do a study however‚ ProPublica issued an article called Machine Bias in May 2016. They compare the risk assessment of individual arrested with the same crime but of different races. ProPublica compared two burglary cases. Brisha Borden an 18 year-old black female to that of Vernon Prater a 41 year-old white
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Movies‚ reality shows and popular novels exalt non marital sex‚ drug use and violence‚ which causes the younger generation to act in a like manner.I’m not going to say that "the media" is totally blameless‚but it is undeniable that they only show what we want to see.Overall "the media" enacts as an amplifier of trends that are already current in society.Thus‚they are seldom (if ever) the ground cause of any problem. They may help in assisting to the severity of the problem‚ but they are not the cause
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What is Kinematics? Kinematics is the geometry of pure motion - motion considered abstractly‚ without reference to force or mass. Engineers use kinematics in machine design. Although hidden in much of modern technology‚ kinematic mechanisms are important components of many technologies such as robots‚ automobiles‚ aircraft‚ satellites‚ and consumer electronics‚ as well as biomechanical prostheses. In physics‚ kinematics is part of the teaching of basic ideas of dynamics; in mathematics‚
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everyday lives‚ we generally decide what we put on the table but we aren’t exactly sure where our food comes from‚ besides the store. Jamey Lionette and William Saletan have analyzed and questioned the origins of where our food comes from and what our food is. In the article “Please don’t feed the people”‚ William Saletan confronts the shifts in the human race in the increase of obesity as well as constructing an idea of how we became “unhealthy”. Jamey Lionette created “We Are What We Eat”‚ to examine
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