Solipsism
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Solipsism in Philosophy and Thought: Is it Just Me?Is it just me or is someone else there? Solipsism in philosophy and thought tries to answer these questions and more.
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Solipsism - Philosophy Based Solely on SelfSolipsism revolves around the ontological belief and skeptical hypothesis that states "My mind is the only thing that I know exists."
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Solipsism: Are We Really Alone?An essay on whether humans are capable of knowing other humans or whether we are really alone in our own little worlds.
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The Matrix: Exiting the Cave of the MindThis is a look at the Philosophy of the Matrix and how it relates to the Allegory of the Cave.
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Solipsism & Involution: LolitaEssay digging in to three instances where Humbert separates reality and his own created world. Supported by writing style of Vladamir Nabokov.
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A Poet Ponders the IsmsA lighthearted look at contemporary ideology or idiot-ology as the case may be. -
Dazai Osamu's "No Longer Human," the Second Most Bestselling Japanese Novel EverReview of Dazai Osamu's "No Longer Human" (Ningen Shikkaku, 1948). -
What to Do when a Dead Beheaded French Revolutionary Walks into Your Room in the Middle of the NightFantasia or perhaps Hayzi Fantayzee regrouping to sing Shiny, Shiny at the masquerade ball held in honor of Pres. Chuck Norris. -
The Importance of Looking at Art for Visual ArtistsThis article discusses the importance of Visual artists looking at art and being a part of the artistic dialogue. -
Cultural Relativism Vs. EthnocentrismA paper that discusses Chinese women's role in the 21st century. It is written from a culturally relevant point of view.
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Thomas Pynchon - The Crying of Lot 49Oedipa Mass, throughout the novel, becomes more and more isolated from the rest of the world. Drugs overwhelming her world can be one reason of this isolation.
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LaVeyan Satanism: A Quick Look"We don't eat babies or sacrifice goats." An outline of the general beliefs, rules, and sins of Satanism.
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ETARCOS May 2006I did a comparison of the ethics and codes of conducts of Buddhism, Shaolin and Satanism.
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The Imaginary World in "Annabel Lee"Analytical Essay on the solipsized world Edgar Allan Poe's "Annabel Lee"
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Awaiting ArmageddonHow I came to tolerate living in Israel after living in Scotland, the land of my forefathers and nowadays a drunken wasteland of feral children and violent men.
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How Medium of Communication Impacts Our ThinkingWhen we write something, the ideas contained within it get frozen in time and space and those ideas become accessible for self reflection.
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An Impromptu Agnostic's ManifestoDeath confirms the fact that religion is full of empty promises that play upon our fears of death.
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Remembering Michel FoucaultRecollections of a conversation with philosopher/historian Michel Foucault shortly before his death in 1984
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The Road to Postmodernism Through DystopiaThis paper compares and contrasts Huxley's "Brave New World" with Orwell's "1984" with special emphasis on how both authors anticipated the concerns of Postmodernism. -
Perspectivism in the Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the SeaPhilosophical questions in Yukio Mishima's novel -
A Review of Jay-Z's Debut Reasonable DoubtA review of Jay-Z's first album Reasonable Doubt, first released in 1996.
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Wilde, Dorian Gray, and MotiveThis essay explores Oscar Wilde's motive in writing "The Picture of Dorian Gray" using a Hegelian dialectic between Mill's utilitarian harm principle and Wilde's own writings on self-realization.
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The President of the United States is Insane and There's Not a Damn Thing We Can Do About ItIf Pres. Bush's surge speech didn't convince you that we have had a clinically delusion head of state for the past six years, I don't think there's anything that will do the trick.
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Ode to the Dead ArtistA poem to the great poets, priests, philosophers and plunderers of the past.
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Thom Yorke's Nine-Track Album The EraserSolitude, it appears, has acted as a confessional to Yorke's longtime preterition of the self.
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Alienation & Resentment in Fight ClubThis article talks about how alienation and resentment are used to fuel a social revolution against the unattainable cultural ideals of consumer society.
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College Philosophy, Scientific Methods and Progress, and Logical DeductionBriefly discusses topics such as inductive and deduction, theories of perception, scientific theories of truth, and traditional scientific methods. Designed to introduce students to basic philosophical concepts. Philosophers: Popper, Hume and Descartes.
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Faustus as Apollonian HeroFaustus is the first true dramatic character of any psychological, moral, and philosophical depth in English literature of the modern period, but in his creation of this unique character we see Marlowe on the verge of Shakespearean characterization.
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How to Argue Against a SolipsistSolipsists believe that only they exist. These people are difficult against whom to argue. I provide here several methods of refuting the solipsistic argument. -
This is Because I Do Not Live a Life Dictated by Fear.My every mundane idiosyncracy was thus converted, through the magic of ignorance, into a sinister indication of degeneracy.
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Hume's Model of MindOverview and analysis of the 18th c. Enlightenment philospher's theory of mind and self, memory, causality and reality.
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Philosophy, Film, and Flight Club: An Undergraduate Response PaperAn undergraduate response paper for the film "Fight Club" for an undergraduate course at Sonoma State University in philosophy and film studies. Originally written by Zachary R. Fruhling on 04-04-08.
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A Rational Cosmology: The Rejection of the Cartesian Dualist Position Regarding the Human MindThe traditional Cartesian dualist argument asserts that the mind itself is not physical, although it is capable of perceiving the physical world. This 73rd essay of "A Rational Cosmology" endeavors to refute this view and its contemporary incarnations.
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Is Maxim De Winter in Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca an Example of a Gothic Hero?An analysis of the question of whether Maxim De Winter is the progeny of such gothic precursors as Rochester and Heathcliff.
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Nicolaus of Autrecourt, Bernard of Arezzo and Radical SkepticismNicolaus of Autrecourt has been called "the medieval Hume" because of his influenced the development of the school of philosophy called skepticism.
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Philosophy of ScienceThomas Kuhn's conception of physical reality, Karl Popper's 'Genuine Science', 'Prototype Models' and Credibility of 'Scientific Knowledge'
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Could You Tell If You Were Just a Brain in a Vat?Movies like 'Total Recall', 'Vanilla Sky' and of course 'The Matrix' have already posed that question. Could one really know the difference between being and being a brain in vat?
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In Defense of Modern MaterialismAn essay in defense of Modern Materialism and its relation with Natural Science, against the various forms idealism, agnosticism, subjectivism and solipsism.
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Was Nietzsche a Contradiction?Nietzsche on religion, eternal recurrence, objective reality, solipsism, and mediation.
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