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A 3-page essay in which the writer argues that reality is not discovered, but is rather invented. Human beings have always wondered about the true nature of reality. Everything that humanity perceives about the world is filtered through the senses and sensory data can be faulty or it may not jibe with someone else's perception of the same observed phenomenon. Reality is not fixed, certain, or discovered, but rather is invented by each culture, each society in each succeeding era. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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behind this perception of the world and it was part of the medieval world. Similarly, as short a time as 150 years ago, it was part of the "reality" of
the southern United States that black people were considered to be property and inferior, a subspecies that could justifiably be enslaved. As this indicates, reality is not fixed, certain, or
discovered, but rather is invented by each culture, each society in each succeeding era. Human beings have always wondered about the true nature of reality. Everything that humanity perceives
about the world is filtered through the senses and sensory data can be faulty or it may not jibe with someone elses perception of the same observed phenomenon. Platos solution
to this dilemma was to simply ignore the material world and concentrate on the world of ideas (Blasco, 2002). Rene Descartes, the seventeenth century, French rationalist philosopher, took another viewpoint
entirely. After first rejecting all knowledge, Descartes worked out his rationale for the existence of a rational perfect God, who constructed a world that is "simple and fit for human
investigation, domination and control," in other words the mechanistic view of reality that produced the Enlightenment (Blasco, 2002, p. 137). While this viewpoint has been shown to be seriously flawed,
as the universe is neither simple, mechanistic, nor liable to be subject to complete human domination, Western culture still harbors an "unqualified respect for reality" as something tangible and definable
(Roshwald, 2004, p. 60). Westerners, in particular, want to believe in "things as they are, actual occurrences," as compared to "ideas, dreams, illusions, and intangible values and experiences" (Roshwald, 2004,
p. 60). As this illustrates, viewpoints on reality and its precise nature have changed over time. Wythe (1998) asks reader to contemplate how they would react if they woke
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