Category: Consciousness

Background Social consciousness is being aware of self and the environment and responding to social injustices in the lives of self and the others. Issues such as sexism, racism, heterosexism, inequalities, and discrimination are factors of social injustice that affect nurses in todays world. Nurses are meant to be agents of social change, and those…

Abstract Investigations of legal consciousness have prospered in recent years, yet these examinations and the very idea of legal consciousnes have as of late gone under scrutiny. This article utilizes the instance of investigations of the legal consciousness of lesbian, gay, indiscriminate, and transgender (LGBT) individuals to show that legal consciousness has been a significant…

Ever since the recording of history began, the concept of consciousness has baffled many great thinkers, from many different fields such as philosophy, psychology and neuroscience to name a few. Questions such as understanding of how our mind works, what is it, to where it is located has repeated itself over time. René Descartes (1596-1650)…

The issue of consciousness is a difficult topic to understand, especially when there are different views about it. The issue of consciousness is a difficult topic to comprehend, especially when there are many different views about what it should and should not entail. There are quite a few philosophers who give their judgment about the…

Karl Marx was born in 1818 in Germany, however, he lived most of his life in exile in London, England. Marx worked as a journalist and was a strong supporter of the communist ideology. At the center of Karl Marxs writing were his critiques of capitalism. Marx believed that under the capitalist system modern work…

In the movie named Sankofa made by Haile Gerima, was technically about an African-American woman who traveled back in the time of slavery and experiences the life of enslavement. In the beginning, it shows a woman named Mona she is colonized and brainwashed which lead to her being separated from her origin. She was on…

In the play No Exit, Jean-Paul Sartre implements the ideas of the philosophy of ontology and consciousness. In exploration of these philosophical ideas, like ontology, which is the study of what exists, the author works to emphasize the importance of self-awareness. Ontology, itself, categorizes the nature of existence into three states of being. These states…

Growing up, I believed the common conception of what consciousness pertains to what is done with your thoughts and your mind depending on your body to analyze what is occurring in the world. However, when taking an in-depth examination of this specific topic, there is an immense amount of information and components to it. Consciousness…