Irrationality

There are many issues of gender and sexuality in A Passage to India: the novel includes an “alleged sexual assault on a British woman by an Indian man” (Childs 1999: 348), and the intimate, homoerotic, relationship between Fielding and Aziz, plays an important part. As Childs states, the novel analyses issues of control and resistance in terms of gender, race and sex (Childs 1999: 348.). Colonisation has, as mentioned above, been described as an example of the survival of the fittest, where…

protectively...I saw the officer's arm coming down, down, down, on my father's head"(Venkatraman 49), she demonstrates his selflessness and how much pain he had to go through in this courageous act. Overall, people have potential to act by their irrationality as long as other people are benefited by it, showing how considerate and emotional they…

Predictably Irrational Based from Conventional Economics, the field of Economics that we have dealt extensively in the previous lessons of this course, we were able to apply the idea that human beings make rational decisions by exercising their logical reasoning through careful calculation and examination of every available option so that it will be able to lead them to the maximization of their personal benefit, be it in terms of happiness and/or wealth. However, this was contradicted by Dan…

Immanuel Kant was a German Philosopher who came up with his own version of ethics, referred to as Kantian Ethics. Kant believed that the immoral part of someone’s actions lied within that person’s intentions. This is different from Utilitarianism where Jeremy Bentham believed that the morality of someone’s actions lied in their effects. Kant saw the limits of the two questions “What if everyone did that?” and “How would you like it I did that to you?” as a test for moral rightness. Kant said…

Prohibition: Temptation Vs. Morality Ken Burns, producer of Prohibition states that “by 1830, the average American over 15 years old consumed nearly seven gallons of pure alcohol a year”, which is three times more than the modern annual consumption. Many organizations believed alcohol was the culprit behind the lack of moral standards and the increase in abuse, whether that be domestic or internal; but in the attempt to outlaw the sale of alcohol, the government saw a rise in organized crime…

Through centuries of patriarchal rules dominating societies, socially constructed male gender roles of power and control have been ingrained in the minds of individuals. Though the desire of authority can be beneficial for personal growth and achievements, oppression and subjugation can ensue when those individual aspirations are enforced upon involuntary third parties. Clarice Lispector in The Hour of the Star, and Gene Luen Yang, in American Born Chinese, comment on this idea as they depict…

In Ideas have consequences, Weaver states that among the most central notions which effect the course of are the considerations of whether there is a source of truth higher than and independent of man, whether or not universals exist, and whether knowledge is perceived mainly through the intellect or the senses . I would contend that the existence of independent truth is necessary to existence and for things to actually possess ethical qualities. From the consideration of the aim of ethics, it…

From the beginning of the early 2000's some major causes that presume to have the major effects on the great recession was fundamental flaws that created growth and contraction. When the economy goes down , the federal reserve can set interest rates lower creating money cheaper for people to take out loans from banks at anytime in exchange to 20-30 year commitment mortgages. This allow Americans to buy households ,make business investments and others that meant more production and more…

Foolish desires often blind their beholder. An unwise student’s desire to procrastinate can blur their view of their true goal, their education. Clouded by romantic aspirations, Romeo and Juliet ultimately go down the path of their inevitable ruin. Likewise, deceived by the serpent to eat the forbidden fruit, Adam and Eve receive punishment for their temptation and desire. However, not only do foolish desires blind, they also take away from the stagnant reality of life. In James Joyce’s short…

The plot concludes with the Patternists using collective power to kill Doro, as well as his cultural ideology. This culmination puts an exclamation point on Butler’s negative feelings regarding cultural and racial superiority mindsets: that they are utterly futile in the long run. Doro’s reign was temporary, and the collective forces of the Allies, only made possible by a culturally inclusive mindset, defeated the Axis Powers at the end of the day. Butler argues that bigotry is incapable of…