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External World
Man seems to be an innately selfish creature, unable to see a world outside of himself. Each man feels that he is the center of the universe and little logic can be used to change his mind on this regard. A man who does not accept the fact that he is not the center of the universe and that there is a world beyond his own mind, is limiting himself to a narcissistic existence devoid of true understanding.
In his lecture, "Proof of an External World," Moore makes it clear that as with all topics of philosophy, the proof is much up for interpretation and individual analysis. Things external to us, external things, and things external to our minds are all equivalent terms (70). The individual is more or less entirely his or her mind because it is in the process of thinking that a person exists, to paraphrase Descartes. Because so much of identity and understanding of the existence of self is concerned with the individual...
So much of what is encountered in the external world may not have physical presence, but it exists all the same. Moore uses the example of a white star against a black back-drop, which when stared at for a period of time leaves an after-image. The resulting image, a grayish star upon a white sheet of paper, is still an object in space although it cannot be physically touched, nor is it observable to everyone unless they have also participated in the experiment. Yet, the gray star exists all the less.…
Works Cited:
Moore, G.E. "Proof of an External World." Classics of Analytic Philosophy. Ed. Robert
Ammerman. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965. 68-84. Print.
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