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Free response tests are a relatively effective test of higher-level reasoning, as the format requires test-takers to provide more of their reasoning in the answer than multiple choice questions. [4] Students, however, report higher levels of anxiety when taking essay questions as compared to short-response or multiple choice exams. [5]
I didn’t hear as much from them about him. One of my students contacted me not long ago to say that she had been hospitalized after a suicide attempt. She knew I was the person to write because we talk candidly about suicide and other “meaning of life” questions in my Existentialism and 19th Century philosophy classes.
"Experience" is an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson. It was published in the collection Essays: Second Series in 1844. The essay is preceded by a poem of the same title. In one passage, Emerson speaks out against the effort to over-intellectualize life – and particularly against experiments to create utopias, or ideal communities.
The essay was written during the time of the California Gold Rush and he wrote that "a grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom." In his own occasional work as a surveyor, he observed that, when presenting different methods of surveying a piece of land, the owner would ask which method would give the owner ...
Carl Sagan, in his work The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark said: "There are naïve questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question". [1]
When we feel our freedom, we are feeling our inner essence and being, which is a transcendentally free will. The will is free, but only in itself and other than as its appearance in an observer's mind. When it appears in an observer's mind, as the experienced world, the will does not appear free.
De Brevitate Vitae (English: On the Shortness of Life) is a moral essay written by Seneca the Younger, a Roman Stoic philosopher, sometime around the year 49 AD, to his father-in-law Paulinus. The philosopher brings up many Stoic principles on the nature of time , namely that people waste much of it in meaningless pursuits.
Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits, since the individual is a succession of individuals; the world being a projection of the individual's consciousness (an objectivation of the individual's will, Schopenhauer would say), the pact must be continually renewed, the letter of safe-conduct brought up to date.