In the movie Rhoda Williams gets causes a car accident and kills John Burroughs wife and son. The movie follows her life after the accident as another identical earth was found. The movie discuss determinism and free will as it explores the idea of two different worlds. The movie starts when Rhoda looks up at Earth two driving her car intoxicated. The movie relates to P. F. Strawson’s idea of reactive attitudes because it is a theory of responsibility and most of the movie talks about her responsibility. Reactive attitudes regard people as responsible agents to be ready to treat them in certain ways. He states “in general, we demand same degree of goodwill or regard on the part of those who stand in these relationships to us, though the forms …show more content…
These are both very important to reactive attitude theory since they allow individuals to deal with and make up for their attitudes. Her guilt causes her meet John and try to make his own world better. Her guilt is seen through how she interacts with the mirrors or her own reflection. She works very hard to make John’s life better so that she is able to pay the debt that she believes she owes him. In the movie Rhoda tells John, “It's about a girl. At the start, she's...naive, reckless. She does something that is...unforgivable. And one day, she goes to apologize. But she loses her nerve. She's weak. She lies to him. And then... she thinks that she might, in the smallest ways, be able to make his life just a little bit better. And so she wakes up every day just to do that. And some days she thinks it's for him. Other days, she worries that it's for herself, that it was really just a way to survive what I have done” when she talks about how she tried to make up for her actions (Another Earth). Rhoda evolves throughout the movie as she deals with her guilt, but it is unclear if it is Rhoda from Earth one or two. This sense of reflection has a big impact on the movie, especially in the beginning. Rhoda also asks for forgiveness from John after she tells him. Throughout the whole movie she tries to reach forgiveness. Strawson talks about forgiveness as he says, “to ask to be forgiven is in part to acknowledge that the attitude displayed in our actions was such as might properly be resented and in part to repudiate that attitude for the future” (Strawson 2012: 153). This is a way for people, like Rhoda to start to make up for the attitudes she gives
Sigmund Freud was born on May 6, 1856, in Austria (?). His family moved to Vienna in 1860, and that is where Freud spent, mostly, the remainder of his life (?). Freud is considered the father of Psychoanalysis, the first acknowledged personality theory (?). His theory suggest that a person’s personality is controlled by their unconscious which is established in their early childhood. The psychoanalytic theory is made up of three different elements interacting to make up the human personality: the id, the ego, and the superego (?).
The movie Antwone Fisher focuses on the troubled life of an African American Sailor in the United States Navy. Antowne, the main character, is struggling with anger issues and has a hard time dealing with confrontation with others. As a result, he ends up getting into numerous fights while in the navy, which causes his superiors to question his psychological state of being. He is mandated to start seeing a psychiatrist to eventually reveal his troubles and to find a solution to his violent outburst. During the many sessions with Dr. Davenport, Antwone subsequently starts to open up and reveal what happens to him during his gruesome childhood. While Antowne is attending these therapy sessions his relationships with others start to progress and
In “Luck Swallows Everything” and “Sanity and the Metaphysics of Responsibility” Galen Strawson and Susan Wolf’s explain the concept of responsibility in both a compatibilist and determinist view. Strawson argued that change was not possible at all when it comes to responsibility due to an individual’s mental nature, while Wolf argues that change is possible for an individual when it comes to responsibility. This essay will be focusing on the criticism of Wolf’s work.
Many people show empathy for humans like homeless people or ill family members or even just someone in a bad state. These people you can say show responsibility towards those events that are unpredictable in life. There are many people that show this, many people that explain this, and even many people that cause those emotions. These people don’t feel the same things we feel, these people see society in different eyes, in different ways, and in other words in different perspectives. They feel that they cannot forgive people for events that caused them anger, depression, or even made them feel like if they weren't worth anything.
As time passes, Kingston progressively changes her thoughts and views of her aunt that change from innocence to immoral throughout her life. Kingston is much older and no longer contains the innocence she one had. This idea of Kingston’s thoughts from pure and caring to shameful and spiteful is evolutionary. The change of Kingston’s opinion through the story shows that humans can feel very strongly about a topic, but can also be influenced to think differently. Just as Kingston grows older, humans become more mature and their perspectives on life begin to change in many ways. Someone’s perspective can be altered by any influence, with time being the most prevalent related to all humans.
Every participant went through three hundred volts before they stopped and refused to go any further (McLeod, 2007). This study demonstrates that obedience is a part of who we are. Milgram concludes that there are two states of behavior. The first is autonomous behavior where the individual takes responsibility and the other is agentic state responsibility is on the person giving the orders (McLeod, 2007). People who are ordinary are capable of harming other individuals if a person of authority tells them to. For a person to be obedient they must believe the person giving the orders is qualified and will take responsibility. A person is less likely to harm another person if the authoritative person is not going to take responsibility. This was proven in Milgram’s study because when he told individuals they had to take responsibility they did not want to continue. The Milgram study has influenced other psychologist to explore what makes a person follow orders (Cherry, 2012). The other experiments that Milgram conducted showed that rebellious people are not as obedient. There were different environments demonstrated among the different studies that Milgram used and even though the environment changed the situation stayed the
The human mind is one of the most complex structures the gods had created. It is difficult to understand each brain process as every human being possesses his or her own distinguished thought patterns with different levels of complexities. A person’s mind greatly influences his behavior, which eventually transforms into his habit by becoming embedded into his character. Today, the world of psychology tries to understand everything that a mind can create. However, even before the field of Psychology was introduced and brought into practice, some American writers threw a spotlight on the mechanism of the human brain in their works. On top of this list is an American writer, Edgar Allan
What is it like to live a life with Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD)? Narcissism is a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy. People with this disorder can be vindictive, selfish, cunning person. They do not care who is harmed or hurt. Abigail was the leader of all of the girls that were seen dancing and calling on evil spirits. Abigail would threaten the girls by saying if they said anything, she would kill or harm them severely. She wanted what she couldn’t have, so that made her psychologically unstable. Abigail William’s would be convicted in today’s court because she gave many threats to kill the girls who were with her the night they were dancing if they spoke up in court, her behavior caused harm to many even though she may not have physically done damage herself and due to previous court cases, some people diagnosed with Narcissism were found innocent due to their mental instability but others were guilty because they were mentally unstable. As it is shown, Narcissistic Personality Disorder causes her to be selfish, arrogant, dangerous, and obsess over the man she could not have, because Abigail threatened the girls she was with the night they were dancing, to not confess to anything in court.
Everyone has a different view on life. One's perception can significantly impact the way that he/she views the rest of the world. This perception can be both positive and negative. Perception often plays a big role in determining how one is viewed by both themselves and others. People are often judged by their appearance and their actions. However, it is things such as their personality and their character that truly define them as individuals. In Budge Wilson's "The Metaphor," Miss Hancock is faced with the fact that other individuals often overlook her. Though others may not be aware of what they are doing, their actions can greatly impact another individual throughout their lifetime. The way that one is perceived can both positively and negatively affect the way that others view them as an individual, which can greatly affect their entire life.
On June 20, 2001, a terrible tragedy occurred, as Andrea Yates drowned all five of her children in the bath. After drowning each child child, she picked them up, tucked them in her bed and called in her next victim until all 5 children were deceased. After she had successfully drowned each child, she calmly called her husband and notified local police that she was in need of an officer. As this case reached international news, many pondered what would make the mother of five do such an abysmal thing. Once the investigation began, it became acknowledged that Andrea Yates was influenced by several psychological perspectives and was not in her right mind when she committed the heinous crime.
William Wundt conceived psychology as a science that could be experimented. His work majored on the concept of voluntarism as a way of coming into terms with psychological problems. Wundt’s ideas of understanding psychological problems explored mental disorders and abnormal behavior, religious beliefs, and pronouncement of the damaged parts of the brain. Through his experiments, he was able to distinguish psychology as a distinct science from other topics. He believed that analyzing consciousness as an individual’s subjective experience of the mind and the world, should inform scientific psychology (Rieber, 2001).
Susan Cain, in her book “The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking” explores introversion and extroversion and how introverts are powerful in their own way, using their unique way of working together and thinking skills/styles to influence the world around them, using many sources to back up her information and tell her story correctly. One source Cain uses is Carl G. Jung who studied types of behaviors and came up with introversion and extroversion.
Today in society we see racism is okay in a lot of ways because we act like is normal for society and we do not do anything to help or make our voice heard,but we expect one day that it might change. Racism means discrimination or antagonism directed against someone of a different race, which in “Crash,” it shows all antagonism to people that are different .In the movie Crash, directed by Paul Haggis, the author develops the central idea that you never know what your actions will produce. “Crash” is a movie that focuses on the narrator’s message that we all have prejudices, and also that we all need to realize that we cannot judge people by those prejudices because the same people that we pre-judge may actually be the people we need in our lives. The narrator experiences the conflicting emotions with
I will begin by defining humanity and responsibility. Humanity is nothing more than a group of humans living in harmony. Humanity can also be interpreted as feelings of kindness, compassion, brotherhood, consideration, understanding, and sympathy, among others. Responsibility is defined as: the state of being autonomous in making decisions, can also be defined as an authority, leadership, power, control, among others. It is extremely important that humans can show humanity towards everything around them and that they are responsible enough to protect people and the environment; This research paper will focus on how authors like Elizabeth Bishop, John Updike, Jim Willis and Maxine Kumin, emphasized the
Carl Rogers was heavily influenced by phenomenology which is the philosophical movement that maintains that everyone exists in the center of a phenomenal field (Engler, 331). In this context phenomenal is use in reference to its Greek root which means “that which appears or shows itself.” Using core concepts from this movement Rogers built his personality theory around the phenomenal field or the total sum of experiences consisting of everything that is potentially available to consciousness at any given moment (Engler, 331). Rogers believed that individuals responded to the phenomenal field in various ways and he focused on how the individual’s perceptions of reality impacted their behaviors. Overwhelming though, he believed organisms were motivated by the desire to maintain, actualize, and enhance themselves. This is the premise for Rogers’ views on self-actualization wherein he defines the actualizing tendency as part of a universal life force that is influenced by