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i want to know about the vast idea of a cultural paradoxes.give me a detailed answer

2007-10-07 17:51:09 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities Philosophy

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Cultural paradox – good question (you win one star). I would try to answer of my best.
Some philosophers flee from the agnosticism. Following tirelessly the laws of logics like during the medieval period as the evil preachers did too, some philosophers had spread (out) their lying faith; had made ordinary people believe that the unique 'Lord' (TRUTH, FREE WILL…), the master of the whole universe, had once created the laws of the logics and THE SOLE social system. What a PARADOX! Those philosophers, who have a great impact on our cultural society, transform the last as a rigid cultural environment and deny the real paradox (the real reality). An agnostic one detains both an absolute knowledge of the existence of the universe and the unknown (knowledge). The agnostic one lives on paradox.
For example, our Western Culture is basically Kantian. For E. Kant: the suicide is an act of heteronomy: "an action which is determined by some outside influence, some force other than the freedom given by practical reason;" such as inclination (heteronomy act) is likely to impel the subject to act otherwise – in such a way that it doesn't match with his free will. Such action is non-moral. However, Kant defined the Enlightenment by "Dare to know". This involved thinking autonomously, free of the dictates of external authority. In other words he says: "DO THE RIGHT THINK!".
So terminal persons (for instance) living on the Western Culture and having a final request to fetch some "Doctor Death" (like Dr Kevorkian) for help in order to give up his finished life (since his life is already in status of being terminal) behave in a paradox way!

2007-10-08 02:53:18 · answer #1 · answered by jbaudlet 3 · 1 0

What is the culture of a place that is everywhere and nowhere, that is at once global but renders the globe obsolete, that globalizes the individual yet strips our individuality? The place to which I am referring is the Internet, and these questions represent the intriguing paradox that the Internet presents to us, one that requires us to look beyond what we can easily see or hear or touch. When we first began to think about the Internet many of us typically thought of a television metaphor. It is not hard to understand why we might immediately make this connection. We view both media through a screen, and screen-oriented technologies often have common effects. Both have a remote control of sorts — in the case of networked computers, the remote control is the mouse — and, like television, we are always clicking and searching for what else is on. And clearly, there is no shortage of paid advertising, product placements and
infomercials on either medium.
Television is a convenient and obvious metaphor for the Internet. In fact, we often use convenient and obvious metaphors for any new technologies that are based on how we use things, or on their content, in an attempt to understand their nature and characteristics. But over time, we slowly discover that our first, and often second and third, impressions were, if not wrong, then most certainly incomplete. And this is because we tend to base our initial
thinking and reactions on the things we notice. So perhaps we should ask a different question.

2007-10-07 18:42:13 · answer #2 · answered by sb 7 · 0 0

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I completely agree with you, however the problem is that many people are taught to think that if a person doesn't worship whoever they worship that they are going to hell or something or that they are against their god. The next time you face that sort of scrutiny for being an atheist just ask them where they think people of other religions get their morals from. Since there are other religions and gods, and some believers (some not all believers, it only applies to some) want to make the claim that non-believers are evil or whatever, just ask them where they think other religious people get their morals from. They will be stuck with the burden of proof and will be forced to elaborate on it. EDIT: I was going to mention the whole slavery issue and how most slave owners were supposedly christian but I see you already got to that point. Another theory I have is that some people get their morals from religion as opposed to developing their own morals with reasoning and logic. I can say it's true because funny enough, it was my own morals that made me question the validity of the christian god and what got me started into questioning everything. If I were you I'd avoid arguing with fundies and deeply religious people (unless you enjoy the arguments, in which by all means feel free to visit the R&S section. lol) but if you really expect a deeply religious fanatic to change...it won't happen unless they want to change.

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i want to know about the vast idea of a cultural paradoxes.give me a detailed answer

2015-08-13 09:59:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

The biggest paradox,as I see, we see people dying every day,due to accidents,sickness,old age or any natural calamity.We attend funerals too once in a while.Still we do not realise that we will also meet the same fate one day.We continue in our nefarious activities as if we are immortals.

2007-10-07 22:05:36 · answer #5 · answered by yogeshwargarg 7 · 1 0

has a nexus with 'agr'i to make it agri-culture

2007-10-10 19:44:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

A "please" would help.

2007-10-07 18:04:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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