Irrationality

The following essay will critically analyze Pape’s (2003) article from a rationalist, cultural and structural approach. Additionally, it will provide my perspective on some of the controversial topics that the article centers its argument on. Definitely, terrorism and its definition and the strategic logic behind it will be present all along to prove some claims and to discard some others (Pape 2003). Finally, an insight on the future of terrorism as a whole will be offered so if this article…

As humans we have several capacities that other species in the animal kingdom do not have. Our brain can reason and process information like no other animals can do, in fact we are capable to judge and make our own conclusions. Unfortunately, not every thought that crosses our minds is accurate; this has led to stablish parameters between what is reliable and what is not. Over the past decades, scientists have avoided to spread information that is not proven. They have used the scientific method…

The Odd Allure of Love Love can be a mystery. It takes hold of us just as fast as it releases us. Love can, on occasion, be justified by logic, but often, it is seemingly random, taking hold of our mind and jerking it about for reasons obscure to all but love itself, until love grows bored and lets us go at less than a moments notice. In the short story “Araby,” by James Joyce, a boy falls head over heels for a girl. He hardly knows her, yet still, he can’t shake off the obsession. This…

There 's always a certain moment in your life where you know you have made the right decision. I know I have made the right decision when I have analyzed the choices set out for me and am comfortable with the end result. Through Socratic seminar I was able to come to the conclusion that Romeo and Juliet were both naive in believing that they were in love. The over catastrophe was their death so that leads us to believe that they made the wrong choice in choosing their own destiny. They are the…

In his Civilization and Its Discontent, Freud deciphers the human psyche - its elements and interactions. Furthermore, Freud concocts a framework that explains how these forces are connected to the groundwork for the creation of “civilization.” Freud states, “Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity” (Freud 118). Freud creates a model where the concept of…

effects on research. According to the article, “Cognitive Bias is bad for Business,” people tend to make decisions and take actions based on self-interest, overconfidence, or from a past experience (Taylor, 2013.) Cognitive bias can result in a irrationality, imprecise judgement and fault decision. Cognitive bias can be divided into two categories: information and ego bias. Information bias is taking a little amount of information to make a decision when there are other possibilities to…

Rationality as is meant in literal terms is the quality of being based on or in accordance with reason or logic. This accounts to be one of the most important steps in bringing solutions to almost all of the crucial problems our modern society is facing these days. We need to take some revolutionary approach in the quality of thinking employed by both decision makers and by each of us in our daily affairs. Swami Vivekananda is often named as the rational thinker of Modern India. He firmly…

Have you ever tried to convince someone that what you’re saying is true? They tend to believe what they think is fact, but what you could be saying is scientifically proven. No matter what you try to do he or she just won’t be convinced. In Chris Mooney’s article, he goes over why people are so hard to convince. That is Leon Festinger comes in. He set up a case study to try and find what happens when people come face to face with fact. Festinger and his team got into a cultist group called the…

important in order to extend one’s knowledge. The sciences can be seen, as reliable sources because they use the scientific method and reasoning as a way of knowing, however the natural sciences are harder to control and to predict because of human irrationality and other variables that cannot be controlled. Thus, doubting could be a good thing since not everything could be known for sure. In 2008, occurred the financial crisis, which is considered as the worst financial crisis since the Great…

Chinua Achebe did not initially set out to write a novel that emphasized the triumphs of African culture. Nor did Achebe embark on a campaign of denigrating slander towards European attitudes. Achebe’s contentious novel Things Fall Apart situates itself post-colonially and, having been written in 1958, the novel came at a time of racially charged civil rights movements. Chinua Achebe remarked upon the injustice of Eurocentric African literature prior to writing his infamous novel. For example,…