As Guy Debord claims, “In a dérive one or more persons during a certain period drop their relations, their work and leisure activities, and all their other usual motives for movement and action, and let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they find there” (Debord). The book “Hopscotch”, by Julio Cortazar is a book full of derives. La Maga and Oliveira are both on a derive throughout the book. *My derive took place in the mountains of Tehachapi, CA, which was an
cultivated by the SI that closely relates to psychogeography is the idea of dérive ("drift"). Debord illustrates the theory of dérive as an environmental distraction, 'In a dérive one or more persons during a certain period drop their usual motives for movement and action, their relations, their work and leisure activities, and let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they find there'(2). Dérive alludes that when humans detect changes in elements of our geographical
The search for happiness has been one of the greatest driving forces over the ages. Defined as an active or passive sense of pleasure or satisfaction, happiness drives individuals to accomplish a number of fulfilling activities in their lives. Thus an evaluation of meanings attached to happiness provides insight on how an individual maximizes their pleasure. Concepts of positive-psychology provide an explanation of what is happiness and show a number of activities that enhance contentment. Najemy
directed by formal information. This means that the information presented is only syntax with no semantics behind it. In this paper, I will elaborate more on Searle’s position and reasoning whilst critiquing his argument by saying that it is possible to derive semantics from syntax. Finally, I will analyze the significance of my criticism and present a possible response from Searle to defend his argument. In “Can Computers Think?”, Searle argues that computers are unable to think like humans can. He argues
is foreign for the fact that it’s interests lie with private concern rather than public. In chapter two of What is the Third Estate Sieyes proclaims that up until now The Third Estate has been nothing and reform is coming. He says “Freedom does not derive from
Descartes’ Special Causal Principle In his Meditations, Rene Descartes attempts to uncover certain truths about existence. In his Third Meditation, he establishes his "special causal principle" (SCP). Descartes uses this principle to explore the origin of ideas, and to prove the existence of God. I agree that there is much logic to be found in the SCP, but I disagree with Descartes method of proving God's existence, and in this essay I will explain why. I will begin by explaining the SCP
believes that each person has a need for all the three but that people differ in the degree to which the various needs motivate their behaviour. DESCRIPTION OF THESE THREE NEEDS NEED FOR ACHIEVEMENT (nAch) Employees with a high need for achievement derive satisfaction from achieving goals. Succeeding a task is important to the high achiever. McClelland believes that the need for achievement can be learned and has cited numerous instances in which people developed the need to achieve .He believes that
The Selfish Selfless In the discussion as to what influences individuals to act in the specific manners they do, psychologists Edward Thorndike and B.F. Skinner―both known for their studies and experiments dealing with operant conditioning―share similar ideas to what Alfie Kohn puts forth in his article, “The Wrong Way to Get People to Do the Right Thing,” where the true motives behind the majority of society’s behaviors are put in the spotlight. Thorndike’s Law of Effect proposes that behaviors
housework. Jayaho: It is recently entered into the Oxford dictionary which means ‘win’. It is more popular and used in Oscar Award winning Indian movie ‘Slum Dog Millionaire’ Jungle means an area of dense vegetation and hostile environment. It actually derives from the Hindi word jangal meaning a forest. Khaki: It was taken from Urdu and Persian language. It means dusty or dust colored dress. Kumkum: It is also called as Kumkuma. It is a powder used for social and religious marking in India. It is an
There has been a growing trend among philosophers to consider consciousness as being a strictly material phenomenon with no transcendent characteristics. Consciousness is, to those who subscribe to this school of thought, merely the effect of matter and energy interacting. This trend owes its origin to the recent advancement of neuroscience coupled with certain philosophical trends. Though neuroscience has provided many answers to ancient questions about the mind, it cannot explain the source of
Goal 1: Sales Target achievement Principal: Team work, building energetic environment, addressing the core business. Goal Derive: Better results for the company and individuals, earning higher bonus for the team. Goal 2: Developing and improving company’s marketing Principal: Building trust among the company, loyalty, opening new ideas and developing better solutions. Goal Derive: Getting involved in the growing of the company, additional knowledge earning. Goal 3: Extending Personal experience Principal:
perfect and complete. If you would think like this, you shall never be able to derive pleasure in your life ever. Even God does come also in front of the ‘N’ Types of persons. He is hidden always against the ‘T’ Types personalities. God is afraid of them because the ‘T’ Types will find faults in Him too. God meets not only with them alone who derive nourishment from Him but could give off nourishment to Him also. Derive pleasure and all the problems would disappear. Works Cited Have submitted
know what to do with oneself in that situation. It is merely an expression of dissatisfaction. Everyone experiences boredom and it is inevitable, but how does one escape it? Boredom must be escaped by doing or even imagining something that one can derive pleasure from. Søren Kierkegaard, in his book Either/Or experiments with escaping boredom and narrows it down to two different aesthetes, which means finding meaning through pleasure. The first is the Reflective Aesthete which is essentially the possibility
Noel Carroll analyses in his paper ‘Aesthetic Experience Revisited’ three different views about ways to attain an aesthetic experience. The first account is the affect-orientated approach which purports to distinguish a certain emotive quality in the experience caused by an artwork. The second account is the axiological approach whose capacity commits to the necessary condition for an experience to be valued on its own. Finally, the content-oriented view addresses the properties that are produced
in order to achieve this we must practice virtue since it “comes into being as a consequence of habit” (21). Nonetheless, at the beginning of practicing virtue it will be unpleasant. Only through habit will a person become virtuous and eventually derive pleasure form such
and the beautiful may be intermingled, but each is most potent when it is pure. Moreover, Burke clarifies that the sublime tends to be large and unpolished whereas the beautiful tends to be small and refined. Additionally, he contends that one may derive pleasure from the sublime through aesthetic distance, which is accomplished through artistic representation; for instance, one can approximate firsthand experience with the sublime by viewing a realistic painting of a ship in a violent storm instead
Introduction Patricia Churchland’s paper titled Inference to the Best Decision argues that humans can make good decisions without having to use normative premises to derive an ought from an is. The purpose of this paper is to reconstruct and evaluate the argument presented by Churchland in the provided passage which argues that the problem of deriving an-ought-from-an-is is not a problem as a solution to it, known as abduction exists that shows humans can make good decisions using case-based reasoning
The Emanation of Over Aspiration In the myth of Icarus, the renowned artisan Daedalus and his son Icarus defied the gods in an act of hubris by flying, defying their mortal limits. Daedalus and his son flew with the aid of improvised wings composed of feathers and wax. Daedalus warned his son not to fly too low or too high or else the wings would be drenched by the waves or the wax would be melted by the sun. However young Icarus, filled with pride and ambition, while enjoying the act of flight
There are so many different views point of the Indus civilization script that is still going on today. This debate about the language started when scientist and linguistics try to decipher the symbols they found on items like pottery when try to understand the people and the civilization. Through the research and experiments we know that the people in the Indus civilization write from right to left and the symbols are mostly pictures to represent a word or meaning. Some scientists and linguistics
Mitch is a sport-journalist always living between two phone calls. Ambitious and thus fully invested into his career, he merely has time to concede to his wife or to himself. His compulsion for work derives from his fear of death. His uncle, one of the persons he loved the most, died of a cancer. His younger brother David also struggles against the same disease. One day, he recognizes on a television show Morrie, the professor with whom he used to be close acquainted with when student, dying