... a positive reaction will occur. In Erich Fromm's book Escape from Freedom the author sums up Martin Luther's acknowledgement of man's selfishness: "Luther assumed the existence of an innate evilness in man's nature, which directs his will for evil and makes it impossible for man to perform any good deed on the basis of his nature."" Man is limited to preserving and pleasing his individual, selfish ... actions are the result of this deficiency. Man is constantly striving for superiority. Through competition man gains validity and a false sense of honor. The most significant periods of hi...

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... existence. What is more, Elon mentioned that national or international societies should make restricted regulations on the development of AI. (Luckerson) Also, Nick Bostrom ,the chairman of the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford, where he has done a lot of researches about the outcomes of the singularity phenomenon. Based on his new book, Super Intelligence, Bostrom describes that once machine's intellect ... science and technology both has good and bad effects. AI is not excluded from this rule. It might be extraordinary profitable or destructive for human being....

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... makes the case that the person's soul is divided into three parts, the rational, the spirited and the appetitive; all of these have a certain desire that they follow. The appetitive, the desire for pleasure and survival, aims for the physical objects of desire. This kind of desire compels the person to want to eat and to satisfy their bodily needs. The spirited, the desire for passion, and victory, focuses on honor and loves courage. The last desire, the rational, is the reasoning part of ... man and is the part that loves truth ... ...

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... door behind him. I thought to myself, "I"m not going to have the baby today. I feel fine." Around lunchtime, I went out into the cool seventy degree weather and hung some freshly washed clothes on the clothes line. The wind was blowing slightly out of the south, perfect for drying clothes. As I was hanging a pair of John's blue jeans on the line, I felt a dull cramp-like pain in my stomach. I blamed ... I was about to experience. I rummaged through my walk-in closet. "I have so many clothes that I should give away," I thought to myself. I grabbed some shirts off of the hangers, then wal...

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... paint in his head, but until he paints it, it does not exist. Another example is when a poem title is read, the meaning of the poem may not be developed until the poem has been read. God exists in our mind in which we use to think that there is no Being which is greater. ... you may know about God in your mind, but until you believe in God and are educated with faith, you do not really know Him. The atheist knows the object of God in his mind, but because he does not understand, he chooses not to know God. "I believed before through Your free gift I now ... is beyond our imagination but...

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... in which tainted officials rise into power through "bribing the majority of a senate or great council." This passion for power obscured the rational use of government. Gulliver's account on human passions and reasons seems to say that human cannot control either one; on the contrary, when human use reasons they"re able to control their desire. For example, if a person knows that liquor ... is bad for the body and the mind, but knows his limits and is able to control the desire then liquor can just be another form beverage. The time period that Swift and Racine wrote their story was the t...

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... she had, or rather, what she didn't have. Falling in love with several men, none of whom were her husband, sending her children away, moving out of her house, not continuing with her passion for painting, suicide; in all of these circumstances, and more, an example of indecisiveness and the desire to renounce something is present. My main reasoning for her sudden independence was that she ... was all along treated like a doll: " You are burnt beyond recognition, he added, looking at his wife as one looks at a valuable piece of personal property which has suffered some damage ... sees h...

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... putts the body under the floorboards of the room, which in a way is smart but also very sick and insane. Acton is even madder because he starts to polish the whole house so that he would get rid of the fingerprints he even polishes the walls and even the furniture. This shows that he is insane because he is saying that he is seeing the fingerprints and it is nearly impossible ... actually I think it is impossible to see your fingerprints with your naked eye on fabric, which ... shows that he is mad and paranoid. However it is normal to clean fingerprints to get rid of the evidence but ...

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... Marmeladov "s windowsill, he believes that he has done " a stupid thing" since "they have Sonia and I want it myself." By giving money to Marmeladov's family, Raskolnikov shows a moment of emotional impulsiveness, but then the intellectual side of him makes him regret it. Also, later a similar situation occurs when Raskolnikov gives a policeman money to help a sixteen-year-old girl, saying to himself, "He has carried ... up life altogether giving up all claim to activity, life, and love!" Once again Raskolnikov is torn between emotion and logic, as part of him wants to save his sister o...

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... love is trying to find oneself, Diotima sets up a definition of love, the object of which is "the good" (205e). Naturally, if the object of love is "the good", people who love want to have "the good" forever (206a). The progression from the initial definition of a lover as a concrete individual who wants the good forever to the definition of love as an abstract "desire to have the good forever" (206a) sets up a similar progression from a concrete ... function of love to an abstract function which is at the core of Platonic love. If the object of love is to have the good forever, the fun...

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... So many jokes are made in regards to the institution of marriage. For example, what is one good way to ruin a relationship? Get married. Yet, there seems to be something within all of us that gives us the desire to find " the one" or our " soul mate". We all would love to have that someone special in our lives to share our lives with. It is ... such a wonderful sight to see the little old couple, walking out in public holding hands. I can recall a time ... them and deal with our behavior appropriately. The Honeymoon Stage The first stage that a couple goes through is the romantic stage...

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... movement possible. It is also a great window into the minds of the people that join the movement. Hoffer does a great job of breaking down what kind of person it takes to join these mass movements. Hoffer explains what appeals to the people so that the people will actually join the movement. He points out that many people are attracted to the idea of a sudden change in their life. To these people ... become a poor person is going to be so depressed and ready to do anything to reach a higher level of financial standing. The new poor still have the images of not being poor and in fact hav...

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... Genius is incapable of love or goodness, which makes the Evil Genius imperfect. Since the Evil Genius is in control of what we think, Descartes is left questioning what is certain. Descartes explains that nothing is certain because the Evil Genius could just implant anything we think that is true or any idea that we have into us; this makes absolute truth impossible. By setting this ... idea up, Descartes broke everything down that is certain. Then, Descartes built everything back up by there being a certainty of God. He was able to establish that ... for his other argument that we nee...

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... had not been happy with him; he was genuinely warm and affectionate with her, but yet in his manner, his tone, and his caresses there had been a shade of light irony, the coarse condescension of a happy man who was, besides, almost twice her age."" Dmitri is beginning to feel sorry for himself and frustrated that once again a woman he has cared for has ... , clubs, dinner-parties, and anniversary parties in another month, he fancied, the image of Anna Sergeyevna would be shrouded in a mist in his memory."" Yet, a month came and went and Anna never left his memory. "He was sick of his chi...

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... is the art of the philosopher. He quotes the Romantic novelist Novalis to describe this art. "The meaning of the Socratic is that philosophy is everywhere or nowhere "and one can easily orient oneself through the first thing one comes across and find what one seeks. The Socratic is the art of finding from any given position the position of the truth and thus establishing precisely the relationship of that which is present to the truth ... false reassurances? Suppose one of this widower's consolers told him, "It's alright, she's gone to a better place now. You can be happy for her."" Bel...

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... all these places and people, when in actuality they were two big phonies. The next Theme of this story that I want to talk about is the significance of the novel's title. First of all I have to say why the book was entitle as it was "The Catcher in the Rye." The title of the book is a mystery all the way until chapter 21 when he sneaked back home to see Phoebe. When Phoebe ... " and they would know the cruel the world thus falling in the rye. As his duty as the catcher in the rye Holden tried to erase the first one that was on the walls, but later said "it's hopeless anyway. If you had a...

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... past; Gabriel doesn't see or sense that at all, being caught in his own string of thoughts. From the beginning of the story until its end Gabriel is going through a learning process from the way he sees his wife in the beginning of the story to a different point of view on her in the end. The process is influenced mainly by miscommunication on Gabriels' side. He also comes to a realization regarding ... happens here when Gabriel is concerned in his desires and thoughts and does not pay attention to Gretta. It is seen is that Gabriel is thinking only of himself, and of the moment they wi...

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... friends and acquaintances. Whether you're an avid follower of social media sites such as Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat, or someone who merely owns a smart phone, you are affected by the never-ending pings of new technological advances. Because social media is such a new achievement by society, it is exciting to us as humans, who constantly desire interaction. Although social media is a big part ... of human life, it its effects are ultimately harmful to a fundamental human identity. To discover our ... true identities, we must dig deep within ourselves and find a meaningful purpose...

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... . Victor becomes self-centered, thinking he is supreme in the sciences, and that he knows the secrets of life. These thoughts cause terrible events to happen to him and his family. Victor's act of playing the role of God brings him a horrible creation, death of the innocent, and madness of the mind. The first time Victor plays the role of God was with the creation of his human being, which turned out to be a complete ... was killing people who were not terminally ill; in fact only seventeen of his patients were terminally ill. Others were rebounding from a recent decline in wealth, and h...

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... fulfilled in progressive stages in the novel. In The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe, the main character, Niki Jumpei, becomes a student of Zen training when he becomes unexpectedly trapped inside of a large sand pit. As he is lead into the sand pit Niki is a victim of samsara because he can not find the wisdom to escape his meaningless life. Niki must overcome desire, delusion and dark passion, ... or ego, to break out from this cycle. To overcome samsara Niki must find the answer to the koan that was asked of him which is, "How do you escape the sand pit without the rope ladder?". Herr...

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... ) Maybe that is not their fault to act like this , for the society appears to instill the shallow notion that it is right for everyone to chase the carrer achievement and the luxury of life. It's a little bit the same with the case of the knight in ''the Seventh Seal.'' The knight lives in the times of crusade, which is thought of as the supreme ideal on earth, so it seems to be doubtless for ... that he never abides by his instinct. The transcendentalists put premium on the '' instinctive reflection'' greatly. If Ivan had lead his life with instinct , he wouldn't have wasted it in vain....

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... . If you want the look of cool you go to the mall and you are surrounded in cool. Another up and coming "cool" among teens is modifications to their vehicles. Teens nowadays define a car as being cool if it has a loud stereo with lots of bass. Or also shiny rims and fiberglass after market bumpers called body kits. Teens also desire the newest and fastest cars ... so they can look cool in front of their friends. When you look at these two things that are cool to teens, it would seem ... that cool is the product of a price tag. Cool is associated with monetary value. It is very easy to s...

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... is, even the mind. He tried to describe the universe as consisting of numerous constantly moving atoms. These moving atoms create thought and movement in humans and determined will or desire. The other two ideas of metaphysics are idealism and dualism. Dualism states that the mind is made of one substance and the body another. Dualists believe the mind and body work independent of one another. Idealism is the theory that our ... minds or spirits are all there is, that even the physical body turns out to be in our minds ... ...

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... . It is disputable as to whether or not their carefree means of existence was motivated by desire to "follow the right path."" While I am not convinced that all aspects of the lifestyle served to enhance the Buddhist understanding, I do believe that the Dharma Bums had good intentions and lived the life of the sutra as best as they knew how and in turn, became more spiritually enlightened as a direct result ... . For the most part, the manner in which the Dharma Bums lived both aided in ... ...

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... and artillery, warfare and disturbance of peace, technology is used against each other to "rise among the ranks" in view of possessions and authority. Then the increase in violence and crime can be attributed to the media who seems to permeate our minds, like Emerson said, "the weaver has become the web and the machinist the machine". The society has become enslaved to the desire to have the latest invention, thinking that it ... will help improve the quality of life to those closest to them ... ...

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