Posts Tagged “philosophy”

Creating and discovering new suns..

by Roz on May 8, 2010

In a previous post on “Convictions, interconnectedness, and getting out of despair,” I wrote about the conflicting rationales of Ivan’s ways of thinking and my own identification with various aspects of Ivan’s philosophy. I was troubled by Ivan’s inability to (…)

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Convictions, interconnectedness, and getting out of despair

by Roz on November 7, 2009

Note: This post will be making a lot of references to The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky, so it may be a bit incomprehensible…and will basically be a ramble. So I just wrote a 7-page paper on why Dostoevsky believes Ivan (…)

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Short paper on Daoism

by Roz on December 5, 2008

I wrote a response paper for a Chinese literature (taught and read in English) class earlier this year on Daoism, because we had read Laozi’s Daodejing and a portion of the Zhuang-zi. After reading the primary texts (or at least (…)

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“Common Senses: Water, Sensory Experience and the Generation of Meaning.”

by Roz on December 5, 2008

In search of an article/study to write my psych paper on, I stumbled across a couple articles that seemed very interesting but too long (they had to be 10 or less pages) to base my paper on. I read one (…)

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