Essays on Instinct

Introduction

As the world develops, more people expect a higher and better quality of life. In the 21st Century, architecture has evolved significantly and it seeks to maximise the quality of life that people have across the world. Thus, several works have been done, seeking to blend traditional architecture with other disciplines in order to enhance the nature of the built environment. The purpose of this paper is to conduct a book review on Cognitive Architecture: Designing for How We Respond to the Built Environment by Professors Ann Sussman and Justin Hollander. This book review will include an overview of ...

The word theology can be traced back to an amalgamation of two separate Greek words: θεος (god) and λογος (word). At its most basic, theology is exactly what the name implies: it allows people to have a word about God. More broadly, the study of theology is intended to bring religious leaders to the point in their education where they can easily discourse on the various subjects of religion, with recourse to the thoughts and works of religious leaders who came before them, much like any other serious academic subject. While theology is in itself a field of study that can ...

According to me, a leader is one who inspires others through his actions. The actions of leaders are always inspired by self-awareness. Leaders have certain impeccable characters that distinguish them from ordinary individuals. In other words, leaders are principle-centered that makes them stick on to certain cherished values, regardless of the challenges they encounter from time to time (Covey, 1991). No wonder, leaders who allow their actions to speak rather than their words motivate others to do what they do, which in turn creates more and more future leaders. A good leader develops a good team of employees; together, ...

As Sadcheva and colleagues (162) reasonably note, “the question of whether morality is an objective truth gleaned from nature or a socially constructed concept has been important in the philosophical study of ethics as well». In the editorial titled The Moral Instinct, Steven Pinker cultivates a rather controversial and ambiguous issue of human moral judgments, moral decisions/choices and moral dispositions. Thereby, the provocative nature of the author’s argument reveals itself as early as the introduction points to the blurred and seemingly inexplicable standards we evaluate the worth of particular prominent figures in terms of their compliance with moral ...

The Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Society by S. Freud

Besides the fact that Sigmund Freud is the founder of psychoanalysis and many other important psychological theories, this great psychoanalyst also had his own unique views on society and the processes within it. Most of his theories related to such concepts as "libido", "groups", and "crowd" form rather a strange and ambiguous interpretation of society. Freud hardly distinguished the individual from the context of the whole society and divided the society itself into the crowd, or the groups, which is compared with the primitive horde. This radical disregard for the human qualities of the individual, as a separate and ...

Theoretical approaches in psychology

Personality and situational behavior The personality trait approach begins by assuming that people differ in their typical patterns of feeling, thought, and action. Such patterns are known as personality traits. However, classifying people according to traits brings up a significant problem. Individuals are inconsistent. Some psychologists have postulated that people are so inconsistent in behavior from one circumstance to another that it is not reasonable to categorize them by personality traits. The controversy arising over this issue is the Person-situation debate. Opponents of the trait approach, also known as situationists make the following arguments. For one, traits have an ...

People are naturally good and evil is just a reaction to circumstances and environment. No person is born with an evil mindset. All are born with pure soul and what makes people bad is how they are raised. If people are raised in an environment that offers the survival of the fittest, they tend to do evil just to survive. The slums for example in the third world countries are inhabited by people who just want their family to survive daily so they engage in illegal activities most of the time like stealing among others. The lifestyle is not ...

The Titanic may have been swallowed by the vast seas that fateful night, but the story forever lives on for the survivors and the spectators. We take lessons from that forever tale and still look to the events of the day for guidance and support. One of the areas worth admiring, despite the disaster and the havoc aboard the giant, was the ratio of women and children who managed to walk away from the wreckage. Research shows that 20% of the men while 75 percent of the women were the survivors of the incident. Of the total 109 children ...

Education is a “Necessity of Life.” In the book Democracy and Education, John Dewey’s postulation about education being a necessity of life illuminates the need for real world application to education. Dewey was a progressive educator who understood that students are failed by the concept of education if they fail to link what is happening in class to what is out there in the real world. He, therefore, sought to bridge the theory and practice concepts of education and argues that the idea of learning in the classroom has to link to the experience outside the classroom. In ...

In his work “Gay Science”, Nietzsche examines the nihilism which was characterizing the contemporary Europe. Nietzsche believes that with the scientific inventions, people have lost their human and the virtues that describe Christians. This is why he says that “God is dead”; that we have killed God with our actions. His work was an explanation of fear due to the abandonment of religion. He believes that human beings have ceased to acknowledge the divinity of God, and as a result, God has abandoned us. For thousands of years, the western world has been guided by the rule of God. ...

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According to Open Access Journal of Sports Medicine, around 45 million children in the United States play in an organized sport. This could have been a good figure; however, by the time these children reach 15 years old, 80 percent of them quit (Atkinson). There are many possible reasons why these children decide to stop participating in sports. One of these is the wrong perspective that parents hold about sports. For instance, there are parents who believe that winning is the main goal of sports (Atkinson). When their children do not succeed, they will either tell them ...

Art has long become an integral part of our lives. At the present stage of the social development cinematography occupies a special place, as for the representatives of mankind it’s the most affordable and favorite kind of art. The great advantage of the art, including cinematography, consists in the fact that it can give people some special feelings and emotional experiences that they cannot or simply fear to experience in the real life. The world of cinema has become valuable for all people - starting from a mischievous child and ending with old car mechanic. Moreover, there is ...

The trouble with fries: An analysis

“The trouble with fries” [is a very informative article on] the history of the fast food revolution. It starts with the story of Ray Krock, who made a living [out of] selling the five-spindle multi-mixer milkshake machine. He moved to San Bernardino, California [upon hearing about a hamburger stand that owned] machines capable of making forty milkshakes simultaneously. However, he developed an interest in the French-fry operation. [This is because it was the fries that ideally captured his imagination.] [From then,] he devised a way of curing potatoes to make them more suitable for [the making of] fries. He ...

Women and Births in Bom Jesus

According to Scheper-Hughes, the residents of the place Bom Jesus were living in very squalid condition. The men, women and children were used to living a very hard life. Those poor women in Bom Jesus believed that an ideal family should have two or three children and actually that is what they actually brought up but a striking concern is that they had a range of nine to twelve pregnancies (Scheper-Hughes, 332). The answer to the question, why so many pregnancies and yet the ideal size is just a few can only be given by the culture and the ...

The trouble with fries: An analysis

“The trouble with fries” [is a very informative article on] the history of the fast food revolution. It starts with the story of Ray Krock, who made a living [out of] selling the five-spindle multi-mixer milkshake machine. He moved to San Bernardino, California [upon hearing about a hamburger stand that owned] machines capable of making forty milkshakes simultaneously. However, he developed an interest in the French-fry operation. [This is because it was the fries that ideally captured his imagination.] [From then,] he devised a way of curing potatoes to make them more suitable for [the making of] fries. He ...

Freud's Account of Human Sexuality and Human Desire

Basically, psychoanalysis and Freud's theories are associated with his theory of sexuality, considering that he regarded all aspects of human life (i.e. beginning with a simple mental disorder up to religious doctrines), as the sexual problems. This comic effect arises also because the question of what Freud used to call sexuality remains outside the attention. If one examines the issue of human sexuality in the works of Freud in detail, the work of sensual sphere and sphere of desires becomes evident. The phenomenon of Freud, the author of the doctrine of psychoanalysis, is that he was the first to ...