Essays on Deception

Anybody who has read or watched The Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice & Fire Series –would agree with me that it is a series that shows every facet of deception used by humans. According to Merriam-Webster, the word “deceive” means, “to make someone believe something that is not true” or “to cause to accept true or valid what is false or invalid.” Deception is a form of dishonesty that is used everyone, every day. And the characters in this book are able to show how it is done so to achieve what one wants; whether it is something ...

Business Ethics Antitrust Law

Business Ethics Antitrust Law

Introduction

The antitrust laws aim at ensuring that all businesses in a given market play by the same rules. This is so because businesses in a free market may achieve the near-monopoly status via their own merits such as creating better production processes, offering the best quality service and decreasing costs among others. However, antitrust laws set vivid boundaries for fairness in the business by prohibiting practices that control free trading. It also restrains dominant firms from abusing their market position. The antitrust laws offer regulatory review of business mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures to ensure ...

Human factor is the major challenge that stands on the way of the specialists in the field of criminal law. Sometimes, the clues may be confusing and the only way to solve the case is retrieving the answer from the people involved. This is when deception and lie become the ultimate challenge in the struggle for the truth. To deal with this problem, the science offered the criminalists a marvelous solution – the lie detector, the device that recognizes the lie. But is it really that good and accurate? The work of the polygraph is based on reading the basic ...

What is CVSA?

Computerized Voice Stress Analyzer (CVSA) is a lie detection software program that is designed to measure the changes in a subject’s voice patterns caused by physical efforts or stress as he tries to hide deceptive responses when speaking during an investigative interview. The CVSA program is among lie detection technologies that purport to work by analyzing voice stresses (Damphousse, 2014). During testing process, a subject will be speaking as the microphone plugged into the computer taps his voice patterns for analysis. When the subject speaks, frequencies of his voice patterns will form dynamic graphs on the computer screen. ...

Many people use deception to either cover up their deeds or to try to uncover the deeds of others. As one of William Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies, Hamlet is a play that has many deception themes throughout its story. Three forms of deception can be seen in Hamlet that is the fear of some of the characters that they are being deceived by others, the act of deceiving others, and the outcome of the deception. In the play, many of the characters such as Claudius, Hamlet, and Polonius all used various forms of deception to either hide information from ...

Introduction

The Cherokee Nation was a very contentious matter in the quest of the United States (US) to expand its territorial domains westward of North America during the 19th century. Although the Cherokees, regarded by the US as an Indian tribe, have asserted their right to sovereignty over part of what is now known as the state of Georgia, they are nevertheless subjected to a series of paper trails by the US government that, in turn, led it to acquire jurisdiction over their lands. It is from that moment where calls for an independent Cherokee Nation grew stronger, yet President ...

Deception is the most unethical activity that can be associated with scientific communication. This may take place during data gathering or during experiments. One common practice in the medical field is the use of the placebo in their experiments. Here, patients are given tablets saying that such items are drugs to cure their ailment. To test the efficacy of the real drugs, placebo tablets are given to the control group. Even the ones who are taking only placebo feel that they are getting better.. The placebo effect or the healing effect is often experienced durng control trials. Wampold et ...

In the quest for certainty, Descartes realizes that some of his beliefs he holds are wrong or bad. After realizing the possibility of having bad beliefs, Descartes notes that other beliefs might be bad too. Such a situation arises since the basis of most of the beliefs is based on flawed reasoning or other bad beliefs. Therefore, Descartes wants a belief system devoid of false and uncertain beliefs, whether in themselves or the basis on which they exist. Such a belief system ought to have a basic foundation with basic beliefs that can justify other beliefs while they, do ...

Introduction

Individuals hold different ideas regarding ‘reality.’ People base these concepts on sensorial perceptions, which mean that some of the experiences one holds about the world revolve around a deception, which prevents them from understanding the truth. Plato dug into the idea of sensorial deception in “The Cave” and “The Matrix,” which mimicked the story and explored realism of deception.

Question 1

The matrix raises questions relating to reality, which resemble those asked by Plato in “The Cave.” Plato asks readers to envision human beings as captives who live in a dark cave located underground. Furthermore, he insists that individuals live in ...

Our senses are our main way of intermingling with the world. Even before one learns to be in control of their emotions, before learning the use of language or reason, senses plays a great role in one’s knowledge acquisition. Sense perception is expected to offer a sense of direction but in many cases it has proven that the knowledge acquired through perception is largely ambiguous and impractical and has thus deceived or misdirected many people (Descartes, 13). Many people therefore find themselves at crossroads whether to believe the knowledge acquired through sense perception or not and this has ...

1. Milgram’s Obedience Experiment is considered as one of the most controversial experiment in the field of research. Arguments questioning the experiment mentioned that most of the procedure involvement violates ethical consideration in experiment administration. The methods in the controversial research impacts the participants because it gives them the impression that they are harming other people, but must continue for the sake of the research. It can cause future harm in the mental state of the participant because it questions both their values and provide them with the wrong impression of research compliance. Cozby &Bates mentioned several actions ...

The terms moral and ethics are used interchangeably. However, both of these terms are based on the individual’s religious, social and personal upbringing. On many occasions, one may find that morals are influenced by an individual’s personal values system about good or evil behavior, whereas ethics refers to questions of right and wrong deeds. In essence, morality goes beyond the norms of the culture, but ethics reflects the professional and lawful principles that exist in a particular place and time. Morality results in a standard of ethical behavioral patterns as they relate to the particular time and ...

Deception by the Investigating Officer in the Investigative, Interrogative, and Testimonial Processes

Deception is a deliberate act to mislead people involved in criminality. Deception acts as a balance between disclosing enough information that satisfies the interrogator while hiding any information that can lead to detection. Interrogators control the information and impression management to maximize the detection of deception. The strategy of deception prepares and recounts fictitious accounts of a target event. Investigators rely on deception as a chief tool to lure culprits to give them facts related to crimes. Police interrogators often rely on psychological procedures that use deception as a key component. The interrogation procedures encourage rational people to make ...

Article Review on the Impacts of Deception in Marketing Research

The article relates to the degrading ethical standards in marketing research. Many marketing researchers find it necessary to give misleading information to their study participants, which often lead to potential negative consequences of deceptive marketing practices.Theoretical critique The article provides a conceptual starting point, where managers can develop a complete understanding of deception in marketing research that includes ethical analysis from a theoretical point of view of consequentialism. Methodological critique The method used by the researchers is valid as it sets the necessary ethical standards for a theoretical point of view; hence it provides the correct conclusions.

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Introduction

Deception is the act of telling a deliberate lie or giving some misleading information deliberately. It is a very common act within the society, and self-reporting researches have shown that every person tells approximately two lies per day and tells a lie once in every four, social interactions (Albrechtsen, 2010). Bearing in mind that the decisions made in the criminal justice system has severe consequences on an individual, there raises the question of whether deception is ethical within this system, and whether the end justifies the means. This paper aims at investigating deception by the investigation officers within the ...

The search for love and a soul mate has been taken online with the advent of online dating. Today sites like PerfectMatch.com, e-harmony and Chemistry.com have emerged to take advantage of this ever increasing need for love and the fact that more people today have access to the internet either through a personal computer or a mobile phone. The main question however is, does online dating work? There is an overwhelming amount of evidence that shows that for most people it does not work and that conventional dating works better than online dating. Online dating is characterized by a ...

The AMA code ethics’ major concern is to foster professionalism coupled with ethical norms and standards for its members. Whoever is aware of these standards is said to have violated them because in one way or another, they happen to create some degree of harm or discontent to the victim. Moore is in a difficult situation where he has to save the business at the expense of his family corporation employees. However, he is granted to save their job too. But the situation is tricky! The officer puts him in a dilemma when he asks him to include the ...

Article review:

1. Persuading others is not an easy task. This is mainly because it mainly involves in making an individual agree with what one is telling them. A number of communication skills are important in ensuring that one can persuade others. For example, in their line of work sales people are tasked with the job of persuading people to buy their product. Thus, the sales people must employ certain skill sets that will allow them to convince others. The first is being confident. In order to be able to persuade people one needs to be confident. Confidence is synonymous with ...

Deception means an act that aims to defraud others by misleading them to believe something which is totally false. I could think of an instance when deception could have been made possible. In social networking sites, a user could actually register using a different name and demographic details (age, gender, educational background, employment) and pose as a person with the given identity. Likewise, within the family, I remember telling my mother that I have finished all my assignments in school when I have partially complied with some or have not done any yet. These are examples of deception. Normally, ...

Psychology – Why People Lie

The most common malady of the human race isn’t the common cold as most people would have you believe, it is the need to be better than everyone else. Fame, fortune, pride. While these traits can be achieved through honest means, there will always come a time when people will lie. Sometimes it’s not for the three traits, sometimes it’s to protect the people you love, sometimes it is because you are angry at someone and simply wish to hurt them, sometimes it’s even to make someone happy. Regardless of the reason and form however, ...

Article review

Sexual harassment is one of unethical practices that have been ignored for a long time. Management has however realized that this behavior is affecting the performance of activities in the work place in various ways. The article ‘organizational justice, sexual harassment’ by N. Cole has analyzed the ethical issue in detail. According to the article, workplace romance is an issue that has existed for a long period in history (Cole, 2009). However, this activity has always been done secretively. Recent studies have shown that work place romances are no longer secretive. They are done in public working ...

Key terms

Meditation- a thought processes intended to understand abstract ideas by Rene Descartes Chimeras- By this Descartes intends to mean that all what he thought about his existence is mythical and not true, in fact, it does not even exist.

Conclusion/central argument

Even though Descartes presumes that all what he knew about his existence was a creation of his deceptive mind and actually false and not just doubtful, at least one belief much be true. And this is the truth that as long as he is thinking, as long as he is being deceived, then he must exist, at least to allow ...

Deception would have been something to deal with in a very easy manner, if we could all think beyond what we have in our minds. If we could detect the thoughts of other people and perceive the broader picture of situations, most human beings would not fall into various forms of deception, fraud and other forms of misleading situations and interpretations. Aristotle stated that we cannot be sure of what other people are thinking because the devil himself has no idea of what is in the mind of another person. Therefore, human beings tend to pass judgments on what ...

Background

Much Ado About Nothing is a play by William Shakespeare that dramatizes a number of contemporary topics such as Love, friendship, society, customs, parent-child relationships and villainy. Considered one of the great writer’s best comedies, the play combines aspects of robust hilarity with some serious discussions of honor, friendship, love, relationships, court politics, and shame. The play is considered a joyful comedy that ends with multiple marriages and has no death. Shakespeare introduces the reader to a group of individuals having a past with each other from the point where Beatrice asks the messenger if all soldiers have ...

Abstract

Deception has been considered by law enforcement officers as effective compared to other methods of crime detection. It is a better way of eliciting vital information and evidences that could capture suspected criminals rather than the use of physical means. In fact, it has gain approval of the courts as a legal way of drawing out a confession. However, it is sad to know that at times, the law officers employ malicious detection strategies like hoaxes in order to catch criminals which can affect the credibility of the justice system. Hence, the use of deception to detect a crime ...

In the novel Cannery Row and the play Glengarry Glen Ross, authors John Steinbeck and David Mamet present characters whose approach to existence appears quite dissimilar on the surface. Mack and the boys from Cannery Row place little value on extravagant material possessions. They possess no ambition other than to have very basic shelter and food; they do not compete with each other or town residents to accumulate goods or social status. The real estate salespeople in Glengarry Glen Ross, on the other hand, thrive on workplace competition to acquire possessions that will signify their success. If one accepts ...

Introduction

Interrogations and confession are an integral part of the investigative process. It is through the interrogation process that law enforcement officers get their confession. However, there have been claims that there is a greater focus on getting a confession that the truth of the matter is overlooked. This, among other reasons has led to a proliferation of false confessions gotten through different approaches. The gravity of this phenomenon can be illustrated by the statistics on false confessions, or outcomes resulting from false confessions. Gudjonsson et al., (2007), carried out a study to determine the relationship between reported adverse events ...

William Shakespeare often examines questions of morality within his works. In “Twelfth Night” and “Measure for Measure” he uses the themes of lies and deceit to examine character motivations and question societies understanding of morality. By examining these two works, one can gain a better understanding of how deceit can result in diverse outcomes.

Lies and Deceit in “Twelfth Night”

William Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” is a strong example of how lies and deceit can get out of hand to the detriment of the liar. Deceit about gender is prevalent within this play. Viola, pretending to be a man, falls in love with Orsino but ...

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Deception is defined as a collaborative method between a sender and the receiver to transfer and receive information. Deceptive communication can occur in a range of different settings, in relationships between strangers, friends, partners, family members and can be perpetrated by all age groups (Taylor, Gozna 1). In deception the sender transmits the information purposefully to create a wrong belief in the receiver. Deception can be done for a number of reasons and by various motivations. Depending on the severity of the consequences the lies can be high-stake, medium-stake, and ...

The concept of consumer protection can to be summarized as all efforts in developing structures and legal responses to outrage and crises developed by consumption of substandard products. Americans have in the past been subjected to consuming products that are a dangerous to the health. Once the dangerous nature of such products is known to the public, public outrage is usually the first response and such outrage is usually directed at any form of government, either federal or state. To this end, several government agencies and bureaucracies have been developed to address protection of consumers. These agencies have either ...

Trick or treat is the practice of children putting on a costume and soliciting from their neighbors back in the middle ages. Trick or treat is children’s most favorite part of Halloween. During the medieval tradition about souls, poor people would go around the village to beg for food. In return, they present prayers on All Souls Day for the dead. The modern trick or treat practice is a tradition inherited from the act of disguising, and is still practiced in some areas in Scotland. Trick or treating was a harmless way for children to acquire candies and ...

In his treatise entitled “Meta-atheism: Religious Avowal as Self-Deception,” Georges Rey outlines in quite clear terms his rationale for doubting the true existence of theists and of the possibility that thinking, educated people could harbor an innate belief in the existence of God. Rey’s strongest arguments are evidentiary in nature. In other words, the absence of any clear, objective evidence that God exists establishes a strong foundation upon which to base the contention that there is no such being. As such, Rey contends that “the reasons for atheism are obvious, and not dependent on subtle metaphysics or sophisticated ...

Much Ado about Nothing in the movie by Kenneth Branagh

Despite the law that exists to protect women in the society against inequality, men still look down upon women and still nothing is done about the oppression. This is a concept that is evident in the two plays as we can be able to see women in the play ‘Much Ado about Nothing’ being manipulated at will and the ones in the play ‘the trifles’ also being looked down upon by their male counterparts. Much Ado about Nothing is a comedy that was initially written by William Shakespeare and ...

Descartes’ skepticism and confusions about self-believe, truth and knowledge are expressed in his First Meditation. He is confused by the nature of his sensory beliefs because most of the times they tend to mislead him. His distrust for his senses does not mean that he distrusts all of them. He only happens to distrust some of them when the conditions for trusting such senses are poor. He will trust his senses when the conditions are such that they are favorable and conducive to be trusted. The other thing that makes Descartes skeptic about life and self-belief is in the ...

Descartes’ central project in Meditations is to provide a foundation for the certainty of knowledge. His project is to show that the real source of knowledge lies in the mind and not in the senses and that is why Meditations is also a critique of empiricism. His aim includes making a clear distinction between mind and body and providing the proof for the existence of God. The objective is to reconcile the church and science by providing each a separate domain to work. He begins his project by doubting everything as he wants to find the indubitable basis of ...

Descartes’ cogito philosophy suggests that if one convinces oneself of an idea or concept, then it is real. According to Newman (2010), Descartes puts forward a very simple candidate as the “first item of knowledge”. In addition, the philosophy notes that in testing the cogito with doubts, there should be certainty in the results. Nevertheless, the existence of thoughts may offer doubts and uncertainty in the existence of mankind. Descartes’ cogito arguments state that the arguments about experiences cannot be disproved as long as one understands the idea correctly (Garber, 2003). Nevertheless, the cogito arguments face a great deal ...

Business Law Case Study

Debbie Gates is eventually laid off on account of her alleged heavy drinking, a fact she denies vehemently. She joins issues with the fact that her former employer, Prada, informs anyone who cares, the reasons (heavy drinking) for her dismissal, a fact she also learns from other employees and not directly from her former employer. Following her dismissal, Gates and her friend Zuckerberg team up to form a rival company to their former employer and name it, Prado ostensibly to deceive unsuspecting customers. Further, they poach the Chief Financial Officer of their former employer who helps them lure more ...

Isaac Beshavis Singer’s short story “Yentl the Yeshiva Boy” tells the tale of a young woman in 19th-century Poland who, in her desire to study the Torah, dresses up as a man and calls herself Anshel when she moves to a yeshiva. While there, Yentl wrestles both with her feelings for a fellow student, Avigdor, and the morally gray nature of what she is doing. Singer’s tale shows the complexities of gender politics in the typically-conservative Hasidic Jewish society, the nature of religion, and interesting questions of identity through Yentl’s journey. The evolution of Yentl as ...

Descartes argues that perception of the world around us relies more on the mind than that of the body. The body or moreover the senses collect sensory information like touch, taste, sight, smell and then this information is relayed to the mind. The mind then collates this information and turns it into something we can understand. So when we look upon something with our eyes, our eyes are in fact tools used by the mind to form a proper understanding under mental inspection of the object. I really like the theory of doubting what is you’ve come to ...

Descartes argues that perception of the world around us relies more on the mind than that of the body. The body or moreover the senses collect sensory information like touch, taste, sight, smell and then this information is relayed to the mind. The mind then collates this information and turns it into something we can understand. So when we look upon something with our eyes, our eyes are in fact tools used by the mind to form a proper understanding under mental inspection of the object.I really like the theory of doubting what is you’ve come to believe, ...

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Introduction Shakespeare is regarded as the greatest writer in the history of English Literature. The literary piece by Shakespeare is still regarded as masterpieces and myriad playwright takes the major inspiration from him. In the initial days of his efforts, he mainly focused on comedies and histories, but later his focus was on tragedies. Othello, King Lear, Hamlet, and Macbeth were his finest works on tragedies (Gielgud & McEvoy 187). Later in his career, he focused on tragic comedies that can also be titled as romances. He wrote numerous manuscripts. Among them, only those were survived which were in the ...

Psychology

The Case of Deprived Education Based on the given situation of the subject, it appears that the student has to come up with a justification strong enough to refute her parent’s decision that will deprive her of her education. The adolescent female had to tell a lie or a “white lie” in order to have a reasonable ground to continue attending high school. It falls under Kohlberg’s ideas of moral reasoning defined as judging for what is right and wrong. It is based on human situations wherein individuals had to make difficult decisions for their own good. ...

Various efforts need to be applied to counter the detrimental features that are common in most public organizations. For instance, corruption is one of the vices that seem to affect almost all public organizations, and it takes different forms. To reduce corruption in public organizations, there is a need to develop a strong anti-corruption culture within the organization. Especially where finances are concerned, structures need to be set up to regulate any financial transactions. Employees in the organization need to be educated to facilitate the way they view corruption. Changing their perspective will assist in strengthening the organizations fight ...

In recent decades feminist critics have attempted to appropriate A Doll’s House as a feminist text, but they have been met with a barrage of criticism from some critics who prefer to stress other aspects of the play. In one sense to call it a feminist play is, of course, an anachronism, since the feminist movement did not begin until the late 1960s and early 70s, but, nonetheless, Nora’s abandonment of Torvald and her children at the end of the play can still be seen as ...

In Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” there are many characters who demonstrate deception, putting on a show for others in order to hide their true feelings or intentions. Sometimes, they deceive these other characters out of necessity; often, however, they are also fooling themselves. In this paper, we will examine which characters in Hamlet put on a show, and why they do it. Through this, we can gain a greater understanding of the subtleties of the play and what Shakespeare has to say about the futility of deception.

The first character to deceive is, obviously, the titular character of Hamlet. Over ...

- Harry and Reasons for escapes. - Types of magic tricks and escapes. Harry Houdini performed magic tricks in which he escaped from bondage by different objects. It included chains and handcuffs through which he would be tied first before he could manage to get off the chains and escape. He also performed magic tricks in which he was buried, but still managed to get him out of the coffins and the soil hence cheating death. His escapes were from different objects that were tied around his body or in the hands and legs only (Phillips). - Relationship with ...

Is Bluffing During Negotiations Unethical?

Business practises' produces the ethical dilemma of bluffing negotiation tactics. As with any philosophical question about moralities there are two sides of the argument, one side arguing that it is ethical to bluff during negotiations and another side arguing that it is not ethical. Arguing on the side of yes it is moral to bluff in certain situations during negotiations is the University of California’s ethical philosopher Fritz Allhoff with her unique position. Also in support of gray area of bluffing during negotiations is James Lawrence providing legal guidelines supporting negotiators barging for their best interest. Finnally, Murrmann, ...

It’s All about Ratings and Money

The film, “Quiz Show” revolved around the conflict of upholding the public trust to television and of financial matters that ratings can bring on the table. Television networks are in principle accountable in presenting the truth specially in chronicling the latest events and in reality shows that include intellectual game shows. Otherwise, television institutions commit deception that will destroy the public trust. The film brought to life the scandals surrounding the famous television quiz show in the 1950s entitled, “Twenty One.” The character, Charles Van Doren who hails from a dignified and intellectual family and who is also an ...

In George Eliot’s “Silas Marner” we first see Silas Marner arriving in Raveloe and the villagers’ reaction to a stranger and his silent reaction to their treatment of him. Silas did not invite anyone into his cottage neither did he set foot into the village. He remembers well the way he was treated in his old town of Lantern Yard, so he tries to keep as far as possible from people. Silas was lonely, and he drowned his loneliness in his work. He was a weaver, and the gold pennies he received for his work was his companion ...

1 a). In the context, Frankfurt writes“Liars must believe they know the truth first, however, bullshitters don’t need to know the truth.” What then, do you believe to be a fundamental difference between lying and bullshitting? Answer: Liars must know the truth and they consciously fabricate a lie. Their intention is to oppose the truth. However, bullshitters don’t have a strong stand for or against the truth. Their intention is to get away simply with exaggeration and extrapolation. A person talking bullshit is unconcerned with the truth and is loose with her/his words. There are laxity ...

Social desirability bias is a factor which could affect the results of any research study which involves methods of self-reporting by participants. Human beings have an inbuilt desire to portray themselves in the most positive light possible. Sometimes they are unaware of this tendency altogether and do not realise they are being dishonest in their answers. At other times, people are aware and deliberately respond in a way they believe to be socially favourable. Furthermore, social desirability bias can apply to everyday life, in addition to research studies.

According to Anton J. Nederhof (2006), “Social desirability is one of ...

Introduction

"To lie is to state something that one knows to be false or that one has not reasonably ascertained to be true with the intention that it be taken for the truth by oneself or someone else’ (Aldert Vrij 2011) .In spite of our intentions in everyday life, we all are all faced with situations that require our economy with the truth. The discussion below explores the types of lies, reasons why people tell such lies with emphasis on the benefits that accrue to liars from their actions. The giveaway cues of detecting them and the ethical issues surrounding ...

In this research paper on Ibsen’s A Doll’s House I will examine the play’s plot, central characters and themes and then provide an analysis of its production history and reception. It is a play that continues, through new productions, to engage audiences all over the world and the social dynamic between theater productions and social values is one that is full of interest and not without controversy. The very first production aroused controversy: Jaeger (p. 259) claims that “The close of A Doll’s House gave rise to ...

The image of the evil demon does not arouse the thoughts and use power over people to accept the things that are not true. Instead, the evil demon is a device which is a way by which Descartes thinks everything he used to think true to be false. It leads him to all his doubts he has acceptably raised regarding those things he regularly held to the truth. The acknowledgment that the understanding that he had gained on false grounds is at best uncertain and leads him to make up his mind to overturn all those things that he ...

Philosophy

Introduction In many ancient civilizations, it was a firm belief that the sun revolves round the earth and nobody dare to doubt the belief for centuries until Nicolaus Copernicus, an astronomer of the Renaissance period doubted on this age old belief and put forward his revolutionary work stating that it is the earth that revolves round the sun. Lawhead has rightly stated that “Doubt stimulates us to action and seeks its own elimination by means of inquiry, which is a process of finding the way to a new and more adequate belief” (p.495). Actually, people refrain from doubting landmark ...

Rene Descartes had a philosophical treatise published in 1647 called the meditations on the first philosophy (Statile et al. 2010, pp.548). His book has six different meditations that include meditation of the things called doubt, meditation of the nature of the human mind, meditation of the existence of God, meditation that concerns true and false, meditation that concerns the importance of the material things, and the meditation that concerns the differences between mind and body.

First Meditation: Doubtful Things

This mediation called skeptical doubts starts as the mediator makes a reflection on some of the beliefs during his lifetime that now he attest ...

Jane Eyre is proto-feminist persona at a time when feminism was not a concept let alone a movement. In that era the thought that she and Rochester could enjoy a marriage based upon equality was a totally novel possibility. Jane is allowed to be strong, and so Rochester is freed to sometimes be weak. This inter-dependence is what allows them both a freedom of action and emotion ususlly denied by the society of that time. Jane has her freedom of choice because she earned it. She grew up as an the orphan, endured her cousins, the school, the epidemic, ...

Introduction

One of the most highly celebrated playwrights of the 17th century is known by the name Moliere, who wrote a classic comedy titled “Tartuffe”. Beyond the comedic elements of the play is the composition of characters that the contemporary literary discourse would agree to be unique and compelling. Tartuffe features the character named Orgon that is often described as a dunce, idiotic, and a sucker. However, despite the negative connotations about Orgon’s character, the other side of him provides a clue to his connection with Tartuffe. The discussion will focus on what Orgon see in Tartuffe and how ...

This essay aims at comparing and contrasting the theme of fantasy and wishful thinking as presented in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman (1949) and also in Tennessee William’s The Glass Menagerie (1945). Both playwrights have intensively used characters who resort into habits of escapism into fantasy and wishful thinking to free themselves from their miserable existence. The main sources of their predicaments are their consistent failures in achieving their dreams, little interaction and communication with family members coupled with personal insecurities. Due to these facts, they all have a common problem which is frustration and boredom. ...

I intend to discuss the nature of being a person. Firstly I will be touching on the German philosopher Kant regarding his theories on personhood and consciousness in terms of their literal personhood. I then will be moving on to broader issues surrounding the subject using philosophers like Nietzsche and Descartes to understand what is means to be a person. Plato was quoted as saying “The brain was the seat of the soul” while Aristotle and Kant both agree that an intellectual consciousness is how define someone that is alive. With that in mind Terri Schiavo, to Kant would ...