Immanuel Kant - Should you ever tell a lie?
Immanuel Kant believed that you should no matter the circumstances you should never tell a lie. Even if you could save someone's life. Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher which as I already said, believed you should never tell a lie. He believed that telling a lie would damage the truth and our ability as humans to be rational. He classified lying as irrational because it is contradiction. Even to save someone's life, as it may have been their time to go and by lying you may have defied God. Or something simpler like telling someone they look great when they don't, just to keep from hurting their feelings. I think that sometimes it is OK to lie like to save someone's life or to not hurt someone's feelings. As humans, we KANT not tell a lie. So I disagree with Immanuel Kant because I think that sometimes its okay to tell a lie to help someone.
Martin Heidegger - Do we control technology, or does technology control us?
21st century philosopher Martin Heidegger believed that technology is not just a means to an end. Technology has become a necesity to us in life. Take these technological things such as lights, shower, and the refrigerator . Without these things where would we be? Without lights, we would be sitting in the dark with candles and torches. No computer, iPhone or even a red light would work, why? Because all of these things take light. Without a shower or bathtub, we would all stink, and that would cause problems everywhere. Without a refrigerator we would not be able to keep drinks cold and preserve food. All of these things we use everyday and if we didn't have them, what then? All of these we have and that is good, but mostly the things people see about technology is good, but some things are harmful to the environment as well. Take a car for example, we see that as good because it makes us not have to walk everywhere.But it uses fuel that releases harmful smoke or fumes into the air. The car is good, but everything comes at a price, and that price is polluting the environment. Factories produce our favorite products that we use everyday,but the price for that is polluting water from factory waste. Most things that we use today are technology made or technology itself like a phone. And it seems that technology is only polluting the environment. It is also used against trees. When you put it like that, doesn't it seem like its only hurting the world? I think that is not true. Yes, it pollutes a lot of things but the things that it does to help us overrule the bad ones. I think that technology helps us more than it hurts us. If all technology was bad then there would be no need for it and we would have done away with it long ago. But if we didn't have it how would we walk 10-20 miles every morning to get to school? Or cook food? Technology IS a good thing and we are still progressing it further and further everyday. Technology has come a long way since the beginning. If technology controls us, then how long has it been doing that? If it's been doing it so long and we've lived with that in our lives, then it must not be as bad as people think.
IMPRESSIONISM
Impressionism is to paint what the eye sees, not what the mind knows. And to paint the impression of an object not the actual object. Claude Monet was the most famous impressionistic painter, but Edouard Manet was the father of impressionism. Monet often painted the same paintings and scenes at different times of day and year. During the last years of his life he was mostly blind. Edouard Manet was inspired to paint by his uncle and was the father of impressionism. Edgar Degas studied law and came from a rich family, but he preferred painting pictures. Pierre was poor and had a job painting china. All four of them were good friends. Claude didn't sell many paintings until after he was dead. He made 10s of thousands of paintings, some as big as 40 feet long. His painting now sell for over 100,000 each. He claimed that nature was his only studio. He loved to paint in nature.
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