Reason

The City Lights Theatre Company presents Handle with Care written by Jason Odell Williams, with Hebrew by Charlotte Cohn , directed by Kit Wilder, created a perfect Jewish Christmas story. The story takes place in a motel room in Goodview, Virginia on Christmas Eve. In the beginning of the play, a young Israeli woman, Ayellet, is arguing in Hebrew with the delivery man, Terrence, who called his childhood friend, Josh, to help him. Ayellet uses her body language to show how she was frantic…

agree on this topic: Which is superior, reason or instinct? There are many situations where one of these things better than the other, but there are also times when neither of them are more important. However, reason is superior over instinct because instinct can lead to moral injustices like torture and punishment, you can think of a better strategy before you do something, and it is the main thing that separates our species from other animals. The first reason why reasoning is superior…

1. What does Machiavelli mean by Fortune? How does this relate to a prince and to the public at large? Machiavelli talks about fortune as a means to rise to power. He implies that fortune is a form of luck that without will of the person controls half of that person’s actions. When talking about fortune, he talks about free will which supposedly controls the other half although fortune directly correlate with a prince’s success or failure. when he says that “to one who governs himself with…

a yes-man, who provides legitimacy to Plato’s one sided views without providing evidence. Plato assumes that the reader would be ashamed to act as the fool. The reason one would be ashamed to act as one would be the potential to be “regarded as a buffoon” by others (341; bk. 10, pt 606c). Is fear a rational emotion; is it a rational reason not to do a certain thing? Fear, by definition, is an irrational, primeval emotion. It is not justification for acting a certain way. Even if one were to be…

History has a tendency of repeating itself. Norms and laws may change, but viewpoints tend to fluctuate between being optimistic and pessimistic. This can be traced throughout humanity, with some decades being notably prosperous and optimistic and others being much more difficult and pessimistic. However, there are two periods in humanity that can be compared to on many different aspects and topics, with one of those topics focusing on human nature and epistemology. More specifically, whether…

“... One would like to be both, but as it is difficult to combine love and dear, if one has to choose between them it is far safer to be feared than loved” (Machiavelli, p. 78). The reason fear is safer relates back to his Machiavelli’s basic principle that humans are ultimately governed by self-preservation; therefore, “because love is held in place by the chains of obligation, which, as men are evil, will quickly be broken if self-interest…

characteristics of reason and language. This satirical book is used to draw attention to how brutish and unreasonable humans can be, even though most of the time we don 't recognize this about ourselves. The author gives both perspectives of the first question, and he suggests that humans have some characteristics of both the Yahoos and the Houyhnhnms. The race of Yahoos and the race of humans are…

providing leisure for them (Aristotle 6-7). In addition, this relationship would also benefit the slaves because the slaves would be able to share the virtue of the master and elevate themselves (Aristotle 7). This is where the concept of being ruled and ruling comes into play. They are both assets to one another in which they are both advantageous things. Although, the slaves were a social necessity not only to their masters but to their political rule (Aristotle 8). In the context of…

In this philosophical study, an evaluation of the dualistic ideology of “good and evil” will be examined in Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan. Hobbes effectively defines the skeptical aspects of human nature, which define human beings as a innately war=like and self-interested. These facts define the role of the “passions” in human behavior, which attempt to discern between the appetites and aversions of human choice, which force them to choose between an evil or a good co-existence with their fellow…

Where they are wrong is that the only reason they know better than he does, is because of the story’s revolvement around dramatic irony. Another reason people don’t give him credit is a human’s need to take time to adapt to the situation. Tiresias, though reluctantly, explains to Oedipus that he is the murderer. The accusation seems so alien that…