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Final Self Assessment Link: https://kinasiarodriguez.family.blog Total Word Count: 5630 Checklist: I included quotes, original examples,  and personal application in all my blogs. I made revisions since our midterm meeting, I gave one presentation this semester. This semester my participation was pretty good, I think I engaged in class by answering questions, asking questions, being attentive,Continue reading “Final Self-Assessment”

Descartes is on a search for knowledge and in order for him to attain this knowledge he believes he needs to forget everything he thinks to be right and true. “It is now some years since I detected how many were the false beliefs that I had from my earliest youth admitted as true, andContinue reading “Blog Prompt 13”

I chose the song ‘strange fruit’ by Nina Simone to represent what art is to me.This song is very powerful as it talks about the lynchings happening in the United States during the early 1900s. Although the subject matter in the song is powerful enough to move someone on its own, the power in herContinue reading “Blog Prompt 12”

“If only the spectators or auditors are infected by the feelings which the author has felt, it is art (What is art).” Leo Toltsey argues that art can only truly be good art if the viewer or reader is able to feel the same emotion or feeling that the artist was feeling when writing orContinue reading “Blog Prompt 11”

    “First, the instinct of imitation is implanted in man from childhood, one difference between him and other animals being that he is the most imitative of living creatures, and through imitation learns his earliest lessons; and no less universal is the pleasure felt in things imitated (Poetics).” Aristotle believes that there are three differentContinue reading “Blog Prompt 9”

The film Existenz played on Plato’s hierarchical scheme of reality in many different ways. In the film their were different games that meant different realities for the characters. The realities were a product of their own minds and although it wasn’t necessarily real it played on real aspects of life. In Plato’s allegory of theContinue reading “Blog Prompt 6”

Socrates tells Glaucon that their are three different versions of a bed. You have the natural version created by God, the carpenter who made the bed, and the artist who paints a picture. Socrates believes that the artist is in fact deceitful because he knows nothing about the true process of making a bed, onlyContinue reading “Blog Prompt 5”

In Allegory of the Cave, prisoners are stuck in a cave-like environment where they are seeing a false reality. The prisoners live in a cave where there is no source of light and they can only see shadows on the walls. These shadows are the reflections of shadows coming from a fire that is litContinue reading “Blog Prompt 4”

Description of “options” and examples: William James suggests that you can see the origin of every belief which is divided into three categories, live, forced, and momentous. He believes that the decision made before believing something is an “option”. To have a “live” option means that whatever your choosing between makes sense to who youContinue reading “The Will To Believe”

If you go your whole life believing something with insufficient evidence and avoid everything that contradicts that belief then your life is one long sin against mankind. Believing something with insufficient evidence is a sin. C: Make sure you are knowledgeable about something before you believe it. Clifford’s thesis is very sound but lacks validity.Continue reading “Required Blog, The ethics of belief”