the universe‚ Factor X is difficult to describe because divinities are hard to invoke and species essences unprovable. According to Fukuyama‚ Factor X is a sum all the species-typical qualities‚ i.g.‚ moral choice‚ language‚ reason‚ sociability‚ sentience‚ emotions‚ and consciousness within a human being. The defining qualities of human dignity are contingent on each other. For example‚ human reason is facilitated by emotion. Therefore‚ Factor X‚ a genetic endowment that all human being possesses
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required to make visible the kinship bewtween pain and death both which are radical and absolute • pain and death are the most intense forms of negation the purest expressions of the anti-human of annihilation • the body is its pains a shrill sentience that hurts and is hugely alarmed by its hurt • the body is it scars thick and forgetful unmindful of its hurt‚ unmindful of anything‚ mute and insensate • the body works to obliterate the world and self of the old person • as body breaks
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the pets are well trained and groomed this is something to consider. His work was focused on three issues which were the property status of animals‚ the differences between animal rights and animal welfare‚ and the theory of animal rights based on sentience alone‚ rather than on any other characteristics. Pets at work make the work place a happy‚ stress free‚ and job satisfaction rating goes up. The pet policy I would set or approve is that employees must have the freedom to bring their pets to the
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A Socratic question Back in high school‚ during a Socratic seminar for senior English‚ a question was raised. Specifically that day’s session concerned George Orwell’s classic‚ 1984. The seminar was a forum for the class to discuss points of interest within the literature through a Socratic questioning process. The purpose of such an exercise was to promote critical thinking and open-ended discussion about the salience of the ideas within the book. Unfortunately‚ much of the class was less than
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1. Write the names of four movies or books that feature the following conflicts. Briefly describe the conflict. (Identify two for each type of conflict) a. External conflict The Matrix External – The human race are slaves to Artificial Intelligence. Speechless External – Protagonists are working as speech writers for opposing political parties - Heroine has a fiancé b. Internal conflict Pretty woman Internal – She wants the fairytale and he doesn’t know if he can provide it. Titanic Internal
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environment as he entered the main ballroom. As he walked through the estate‚ he noticed rather anomalous sculptures and paintings. As he observed the exotic artwork in the main ballroom‚ a loud cry echoed throughout the halls of the estate. The sentience of fear was at large‚ but Edard continued spectating the estate. He placed his satchel on a large ballroom dinner table and began reading verses from the Holy Bible pertaining to omens. While he was reciting verses from the Bible‚ his name slowly
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The Discarded Image (Rewrite) “The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature” by C.S. Lewis is not just an introduction of the Medieval and Renaissance period‚ as the subtitle suggests‚ but rather an overview of the cultural background of that time period. C.S. Lewis describes “the model” or “the image” of the universe as it was thought to be during the Renaissance and the Middle Ages. Their way of thinking was completely different from ours in our “Modern World”
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stated‚ simply because we do not know how to say it. While the most correct definition is surely made by many facets‚ there is one aspect that‚ devoid of‚ one cannot have a human. To be human is to be able to think for oneself‚ and only to oneself. Sentience is no strange measure of one’s humanity‚ it has been used countless times before as such a metric. However‚ I propose to you today that the ability to think must be private‚ or else humanity is lost. Once someone can read another’s thoughts‚ they
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On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion Mary Anne Warren’s argument that “because women are persons and fetuses are not‚ women’s rights override whatever right to life a fetus may possess” because of the characteristics of personhood and moral community that a fetus does not yet have (Warren 164) is shown through the following argument: 1) If unwanted and dangerous pregnancies occur‚ woman should morally and justifiably have the right without any restrictions to have an abortion. 2) Unwanted
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paintings‚ and attempts to cheer him by reading with him and listening to his improvised musical compositions on the guitar. Roderick sings "The Haunted Palace"‚ then tells the narrator that he believes the house he lives in to be alive‚ and that this sentience arises from the arrangement of the masonry and vegetation surrounding it. Roderick later informs the narrator that his sister has died and insists that she be entombed for two weeks in a vault (family tomb) in the house before being permanently
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