AREA OF STUDY BELONGING FOCUS TEXT: THE SIMPLE GIFT What you must do in this Area of Study: • Develop a personalised detailed appreciation of the concept of belonging. • Closely analyse HOW your set text‚ Herrick’s The Simple Gift‚ SHAPES your understanding of belonging. • Select and study at least three other texts (broaden your search beyond poetry) which further your perception of the WHAT (ideas) and the HOW (techniques including form‚ language and structure) of belonging
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certainty. The result is an idea of the human as essentially spiritual‚ but temporarily connected to a material body‚ which knows that its perceptions are valid because God is no deceiver. And how do we know about God? Because we couldn’t have even the concept of so perfect a being unless God had put it into us‚ like the mark of the craftsman on his work. But isn’t this no more than saying that "I know what I know"‚ and justifying this by saying "one of the things I know is a benevolent God" in a pointlessly
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Descartes famously a rationalist believed that true knowledge about the world comes from reason and without experience. Descartes initiated his claim about the self by doubting. He doubted everything‚ including his own existence‚ and that doubt itself is the only certainty. Accordingly‚ he assumed that his thoughts were the only thing not to be doubted. The answer to his existence was his cogito argument‚ “I think‚ therefore I am”; ‘cogito ergo sum’. This means that the existence of a thinking substance
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Life is a Work of Art “Live by the foma that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.” The novel Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut imposes the question of whether truth shows the true goodness of existence or if lies cover the “awful truth.” The novel also pushes the reader to come to their sense of what art is‚ as well as their view of the world. Does art tell the truth‚ or does art tell a big lie? Is the world good‚ or is the world evil? There are two points of view given in the novel. The first
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Dualism; Mind v Body Throughout the history of philosophy one of the strongest thesis’s in Descartes time as a philosopher was the idea of dualism. What is dualism? In short it is the theory that the mind and body are two separate substances. Although Descartes has his own arguments and support as to why dualism is true. The idea of dualism has been debated for centuries; it is basically on what one’s beliefs are if they think it is true or false. Descartes explanation of dualism was in his second
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Cause and effect is as simple as recalling the pain that occurs when we stub our toe and reflecting on that occurrence. The purpose of the copy principle‚ according to Hume‚ is to provide a reasoned method for removing confusion from philosophical concepts. If we can trace what impression and idea comes from‚ then we can accept the validity of the idea and proceed with evaluating it. If an idea does not correspond to an impression‚ then we can reject it as lacking meaning. As Hume says (540) “ideas
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“I think‚ therefore I am” otherwise known as the cogito argument is a famous phrase by René Descartes. In his first two meditations‚ Descartes encounters several information that he is skeptical about. He is uncertain about his knowledge‚ his senses‚ his body‚ and his existence‚ but he is able to provide explanations to gain deeper understanding of each. He provides various arguments in the things that he is able to trust‚ and things that he requires further knowledge on‚ which can possibly be solved
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SCAMPER SCAMPER is a tool to help you think about manipulating your subject in various ways. It can be used by yourself as well as with a group. You can use it‚ for example‚ when brainstorming to stimulate new ideas. SCAMPER is an acronym: S – Substitute C – Combine A – Adapt M –
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Corporate Effectuation | What managers should learn from entrepreneurs!Book/Article Review | Corporate Effectuation In the book Corporate Effectuation – What managers should learn from entrepreneurs! by Thomas Blekman‚ Mr. Blekman goes through the process of explaining that the leading way of management theory which focuses on prediction and control limits our ability to create successful business ventures. He posits that entrepreneurs can learn to think and act effectually‚ that is using
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1. Explain how Locke and Hume view personal identity‚ or the “Self”. How do you see Kafka’s “Metamorphosis” as exemplifying these philosophical themes? You may choose Locke or Hume or both‚ or argue why you see neither of their theories as showing up in Kafka’s work. Locke’s theory of personal identity does not rely on substance to explain personal identity. Locke’s theory is person one at time two is the same person as person two at time one if and only if person one and person two are both
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