The application of authenticity to concepts of freedom, choice, duty and commitment. (Heidegger, 1927)
While the methods of approaching the problem of being and the ideal of freedom differ greatly between artists, the notion of man as the primary -- or rather, sole -- agent of his evolution is consistent throughout. In this way, it is not so much that God is dead, but that, as Adam in Imre Madach's "The Tragedy of Man" stated, "my God is me" (Madach, 1989)
To put it simply, a person's authenticity is the degree to which he remains true to himself despite the external force of the mass, and it is this standard by which Existentialists measure the moral success of a man. This need for a new standard of moral success is related to Frederick Nietzsche's assertion that "God is dead" (Nietzsche, 1974)
The Netherlands is one of the few countries that uphold the concept of assisted suicide and it can practically be considered a model in regard to the safety and ethical nature of the operation. The Dutch assisted suicide "story does not begin in earnest until 1973, when a Dutch physician, who killed her seventy-eight-year-old mother at her request, was tried for homicide and, after a very closely followed trial, received only a conditional one-week jail sentence along with one year of probation" (Gorsuch 104)
Further, self-responsibility means acceptance of my basic aloneness and acceptance of responsibility for the attainment of my own goals." (Branden; p
As previously mentioned, Alice has to find her way through the world of the looking glass by figuratively feeling out each situation and interaction. In this way, she is gaining the required experiential knowledge necessary to some to her own conclusions relative to good and evil, just as Socrates posits is important for each person to do in life (Guthrie, 188)
She is able to help to define her own reality and choose an existence, at least in her alternate reality that is sandwiched between the two extremes that she encounters. Another way that Plato's philosophy surfaces within the story line is the fact that Plato believed that people, like Alice, start out as unshaped, unlearned beings (Hare, 74)
Within the story, as Alice makes her way through the dreamscape, it is interesting to note that her experiences are indicative of a person who has been able to create their dream world from the bits and pieces of her conscious world, no matter how thinly veiled her dream experiences are. According to philosopher David Hume, it is impossible for someone to experience something new and unique within his or her own mind (Penelhum, 166)
Thomas Aquinas also becomes apparent. Aquinas believed in a set of causal arguments for the existence of God and the interaction of humans relative to this existence (Stump, 68)
The cosmological argument is really a family of arguments. There are three main types, comprising the first three of Aquinas's "Five Ways" of proving the existence of God (Aquinas, Part 1, Q, II, and A
Since existence is not a property, it cannot be included in the definition of God. (Edwards, 20) The ontological argument is the only one that is a priori; that is, it argues from premises that are all independent of experience
For the layperson, this argument is perhaps the most popular. (Hick, 1971) However, the argument's simplicity is deceptive
The problem of evil is generally regarded as the most important argument against theism. (Mavrodes, 1995) The argument from morality, like the cosmological argument, is really a family of arguments (Hick, 26-27)
We should note that of the three arguments presented by Copleston, the cosmological is decidedly deductive in nature and the argument from experience is inductive. (Reese, 1980) the argument from religious experience is more difficult to classify
This and this alone is self-caused. According to the Thomas Aquinas, though the world is in constant change, there must be a First Cause that remains unchanged (Rowe, 20)
To the layperson, the argument seems sophistical and unconvincing. (Smart, 500) To the philosophically aware, it seems to have been decisively defeated by Kant
However, Darwin's theories of evolution and modern studies in ecology have done much to explain phenomena that previously were in the realm of mystery. Further, some assert that the argument from design really depends on the conclusions of the cosmological argument (Williamson, 196)
The film then strategically shows us that nothing has changed since the streets are no safer and the drugs are still prevalent. The money is still spent with reckless abandon" (Beaver, 2012)
House I Live in directed by Eugene Jarecki is a narrative documentary about the "war on drugs" and the collateral damage that is occurring with the ordinary lives of citizens often serving prison time for minor, drug-related offenses. "Jarecki asserts -- as he sifts through the data, weighs the evidence and checks in with those on both sides of the law -- a war that has led to mass incarcerations characterized by profound racial disparities and that ha he title of the documentary isn't purely metaphoric" (Dargis, 2012)
, education through the news media, education through popular literature, films, theatre, art, even dance and music." (Hall 365) She goes on to state that the goals, the teachers and their curriculum must be carefully chosen to develop "ecological literacy," to gain an overall appreciation of life in all its manifestations, to counteract an advertising industry by providing a "sober view of the world, but without inducing despair," and to learn how to live as caring stewards of our world, rather than consumers of it