Analyzing The Essay 'Ways Of Seeing' By Berger

My intellectual home has been shaped like clay by the hands of places I’ve been. I find that no matter what new information or experiences I come across, my perception of is always as diverse as these hands. It makes me ask, how does culture affect this? How does this relate to the culture I’m in or the cultures I’ve been in? These questions remind me how my experiences of living around the world and in different cultures will never stop affecting my “way of knowing”. I connect profoundly to essays by Berger, Copland, and Crawford for this very reason of never escaping the influence of your environment. No matter what I or anyone else does, our experiences will define our intellectual home.

This is the overarching theme of Berger’s essay “Ways of Seeing”, that our experiences and environment greatly affects how we see, especially in art. He supports this by explaining how a piece of art would look …show more content…
This is why I can’t connect with Descartes’ Meditations because they are not remotely structural. I find the scattered nature of his thinking inefficient and destructive because he destroys his thoughts instead of building upon them. In the two meditations, Descartes contemplates what is real in his opinions and what is real in the universe. In the first meditation, he focuses on deciding that all his previous opinions are false, therefore destroying them and that only the things he can actually sense are real. Even though he decides this, he begins to wonder if even his senses deceive him and if God is deceiving him. However, if God is all good and all knowing as he believes, would God actually deceive him? To get over this confusion Descartes decides that it is actually the devil deceiving him, and not the supremely good God. In the second meditation, Descartes goes full out in believing that nothing he knows or senses is real, not even

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