Sunday, May 19, 2019

Synthesis Essay

One persons craziness is some other persons reality(Tim Burton). In this quote, Tim Burton is pointing out that community have our own reality. Philosophically, reality is whatever we think or perceive. There is no true or real emplacement. Our perspective depends on our morals and beliefs. All our life, we perceive knowledge and information through antithetical forms of wording. Hence, our perspective is also limited by the language. Language is one of the unique things that people have. Language puts limits on our thoughts.For example, when individual says dog, we all picture a different dog, therefore we perceive the information differently. Similarly, religious books bewitch the way of our thinking through the delivery or language in the book. Those words be ideas of someone else but we get so influenced by those words that we base our morals on it. Words are part of language which fixes an image in our minds. When we say dog, we picture a dog, not a king of beasts or f ish, because we are imprisoned by the language that we ourselves getd.Those words in the biblical texts are from a perspective of a different person but we believe in his/her words, borrow the idea and we shed light on our own beliefs which is still inspired by someones perspective. Those beliefs define the worldly concern around us. Thus, through language we create our own limited world and imprison ourselves. Likewise, in the excerpt cosmic Prison from the book The inconspicuous Prison by Loren Eiseley, the author argues, that human perspective is limited by language, culture and origin. In the Cosmic Prison, the author, Eiseley attempts to point out that perspective is limited and bounded by language.Language limits our thoughts and imagination Language implies boundaries (Eiseley 31). Whenever we surname a thing, we put limits in our imagination. According to Eiseley, man creates an unnatural world of his own, which he calls the cultural world and in which he feels at home( Eiseley 31). We are comfortable with our cultural world that we created ourselves but at the same time we feel imprisoned and long to escape. Eiseley develops an interesting analogy between man in his prison and snow-covered blood cells imprisoned within a living body.Both man and white blood cells a self contained and they dont seem to understand the world outside of them. Their perspective is limited by the boundaries of their realm. A cell may not know that it might be living inside another body. They dont see outside of their world. Similarly, people have their own perspective and they might think that the action through by another person is wrong whereas according to that person, his actions are right. People tend not to go outside of their perspective to walk the world through different shoes.We believe and trust our own perspective which is influenced by human knowledge obtained through language. Our perspective might be influence by someones words or actions like media uses persuasive language and repetition to make us believe in something. For example, media showed just about Muslims as terrorists only, thus making us believe that Muslims are terrorists. It changed our perspective on Muslims and limited our knowledge. Therefore, language creates boundaries and restricts our perspective. Furthermore, culture and our values limits our perspective too. In the article

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