Prowess Critical Thinkings Samples For Students

CLOUDS AND INTELLECTUAL THUGGERY

Aristophanes’ cloud is a blatant attack on the sophists and a personal attack on Socrates. The sophists were a class of people who had a revolutionary frame of thought which did not conform to the social norms of their time. They believed in arguing about the validity of everything and using their cunningness and mental prowess to triumph in an argument. Aristophanes’ cloud shows how the teachings of the sophists at the Thoughtery went against common social convention of the time. The play focuses on the activities of the sophists to paint them in their true colors as people who went against social ...

Globalization has made the world a global village; people interact in various fronts such as business, trade, culture, and other forms of interactions. The documentary film Darwin’s Theory and Tuna are important in putting into perspective the merits and demerits of globalization. Globalizations enhance the relationship between countries, which in turn leads to economic prosperity of the countries which benefits from the bilateral relationship. Despite these apparent benefits of globalization, there are adverse impacts that should be mitigated. In most cases the developed countries usually takes advantage of developing countries in fronts such as trade or neocolonialism. It is ...

Candide is Voltaire’s attack on the philosophy of such Enlightenment thinkers as as Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, who believed that the present world was the best of all possible worlds, and that all things turn out for the best. They also believed that God exists, and since God has to be perfect, his world has to be perfect as well. The only reason that people see imperfection in the world is that they have limitations on their understanding. The violence that happens around (and to) Candide, and his fellow optimist, Pangloss, is Voltaire’s way of ridiculing the ...