Topic: Perception
I believe perception is an individual's understanding or insight. Gorgias said that objective perception is impossible. For me, this means a person cannot have any subjectivity. To be subjective is completely opposite of being objective; perception in itself is a person’s subjectivities, biases, or tastes. Socrates said it is highly unlikely, not impossible. My view of what he argued on this topic is, if a person understands his or her subjectivities, and how they might interfere with what he or she sees as truth and reality, then one may come closer than another to perceiving what is true and false.
Everyone in this world is an individual. They have their own perceptions on what is truth, and everyone has that right as a human being. I have too many subjectivities, biases, or tastes to state in one sitting. I will only name a few, especially those that relate to major topics in today’s society. Something important to me is the war in Iraq. I disagree with the way the war has taken shape, and some of the events that have occurred because of it. A big distaste with it is all the people who have died on both sides, but that is war; I know that. Another thing I know is that I am more biased to not having a war period, because my boyfriend is in the army and he will be deploying to Iraq sometime in March. With this in mind, I can set aside my biases and look at the war at hand. I think, in this case, to help reduce the threat of terrorism and their control over others, we must do all that we can; if war and helping a civilization of people form a government are those means, then it must be done.
Another topic of importance is the schools in the United States. It is my understanding that teachers’ opinions are not heeded as often as parents’ opinions are. The teachers in our school are the ones who have a better idea of what kind of curriculums should be administered in each school. Would the parents be better suited for this? I believe not, because they are not the teachers who have to watch many of their students have trouble learning in one area or excelling in another. From what I see, some, not all, of our parents agree to issues or corrections on school teaching methods without gathering information to make a well informed decision. They should not only gather information from students, or other parents, but also from the teachers themselves or other administrators. In doing this, since they seem to have more power in these issues than what teachers have, they would actually help their children and not hinder them in the long run. I could be biased about this, however, because my Grandma is a teacher and I hear many of her complaints that might have become my own issues also. I do not know all of the facts; therefore, this topic is purely a perception and not an objective perception, while my first topic may be more objectively understood.
Irresponsible parents and the affect they have on their children is something that lies very close to home for me. I see too many parents divorcing for all the wrong reasons, and too many parents depending on their teenagers too often to take care of the younger kids. I do not see enough responsibility coming from a good percentage of parents these days. I am biased to believing this because I was in a similar situation over a year and a half ago when I was my sisters and brother’s stability, not their parents. I had the responsibility that no teenager should ever have to endure; the responsibility that is supposed to fall to the parents to take care of. I had to act somewhat like a parent to my siblings when I was in high school. My mother, during all this time, had to go to work early in the morning before anyone got up, and then get home in the evening to plop her lazy butt on the couch while I did the work of a parent (I was only the eldest sister). Then, my step-father would almost always be out on the road, since he was a truck driver. I might be biased in saying that a good number of parents are irresponsible, but I have a good reason in being that way; it affected my development. I did not want them to be in a bad situation without stability. If I put aside this experience and look at all the good I have seen in families and how my new family is, I would make a more objective perception; I would say that there is a good majority of parents who are responsible and do take care of the responsibilities bestowed on them when they became a parent. This example would have the greatest possibility of distorting my perceptions, because parents are the key to my world and making it what it is today.
Perception is what we see in life that may be sometimes more subjective than objective due to some of our experiences; the things we have seen or encountered or even learned in our lifetime. We view this as our own realities, but figuring out what is actually true or false in those realities is the challenge. When we gather information that can be shown or proven as true, only then can we understand or make decisions wisely. Wisdom comes through our own lifetime of experiences and also from what many have come to understand over the centuries that impact us personally such as Gorgias and Socrates.
I believe perception is an individual's understanding or insight. Gorgias said that objective perception is impossible. For me, this means a person cannot have any subjectivity. To be subjective is completely opposite of being objective; perception in itself is a person’s subjectivities, biases, or tastes. Socrates said it is highly unlikely, not impossible. My view of what he argued on this topic is, if a person understands his or her subjectivities, and how they might interfere with what he or she sees as truth and reality, then one may come closer than another to perceiving what is true and false.
Everyone in this world is an individual. They have their own perceptions on what is truth, and everyone has that right as a human being. I have too many subjectivities, biases, or tastes to state in one sitting. I will only name a few, especially those that relate to major topics in today’s society. Something important to me is the war in Iraq. I disagree with the way the war has taken shape, and some of the events that have occurred because of it. A big distaste with it is all the people who have died on both sides, but that is war; I know that. Another thing I know is that I am more biased to not having a war period, because my boyfriend is in the army and he will be deploying to Iraq sometime in March. With this in mind, I can set aside my biases and look at the war at hand. I think, in this case, to help reduce the threat of terrorism and their control over others, we must do all that we can; if war and helping a civilization of people form a government are those means, then it must be done.
Another topic of importance is the schools in the United States. It is my understanding that teachers’ opinions are not heeded as often as parents’ opinions are. The teachers in our school are the ones who have a better idea of what kind of curriculums should be administered in each school. Would the parents be better suited for this? I believe not, because they are not the teachers who have to watch many of their students have trouble learning in one area or excelling in another. From what I see, some, not all, of our parents agree to issues or corrections on school teaching methods without gathering information to make a well informed decision. They should not only gather information from students, or other parents, but also from the teachers themselves or other administrators. In doing this, since they seem to have more power in these issues than what teachers have, they would actually help their children and not hinder them in the long run. I could be biased about this, however, because my Grandma is a teacher and I hear many of her complaints that might have become my own issues also. I do not know all of the facts; therefore, this topic is purely a perception and not an objective perception, while my first topic may be more objectively understood.
Irresponsible parents and the affect they have on their children is something that lies very close to home for me. I see too many parents divorcing for all the wrong reasons, and too many parents depending on their teenagers too often to take care of the younger kids. I do not see enough responsibility coming from a good percentage of parents these days. I am biased to believing this because I was in a similar situation over a year and a half ago when I was my sisters and brother’s stability, not their parents. I had the responsibility that no teenager should ever have to endure; the responsibility that is supposed to fall to the parents to take care of. I had to act somewhat like a parent to my siblings when I was in high school. My mother, during all this time, had to go to work early in the morning before anyone got up, and then get home in the evening to plop her lazy butt on the couch while I did the work of a parent (I was only the eldest sister). Then, my step-father would almost always be out on the road, since he was a truck driver. I might be biased in saying that a good number of parents are irresponsible, but I have a good reason in being that way; it affected my development. I did not want them to be in a bad situation without stability. If I put aside this experience and look at all the good I have seen in families and how my new family is, I would make a more objective perception; I would say that there is a good majority of parents who are responsible and do take care of the responsibilities bestowed on them when they became a parent. This example would have the greatest possibility of distorting my perceptions, because parents are the key to my world and making it what it is today.
Perception is what we see in life that may be sometimes more subjective than objective due to some of our experiences; the things we have seen or encountered or even learned in our lifetime. We view this as our own realities, but figuring out what is actually true or false in those realities is the challenge. When we gather information that can be shown or proven as true, only then can we understand or make decisions wisely. Wisdom comes through our own lifetime of experiences and also from what many have come to understand over the centuries that impact us personally such as Gorgias and Socrates.
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