Critical Essay 1

Jacqueline Eaves

English 1C

November 4, 2013

Critical Essay 1

The process of losing one’s subjectivity and the movement towards objectivity very often involves sacrifice. In this argument the basic logic is saying that the way one losing their knowledge and opinion of something and adjusting to the understanding and facts about another very often involves one giving up their significant point of view in favor of apprehending something else. In order to get an understanding of a point or something that one has not known about, they have to let their knowledge be put aside and get involved with the new way of thinking about that subject. In sight of the argument, ones response is in support of the argument in favor of that in order to lose ones knowledge and gain understanding it takes as little to no sacrifice to view something in a different way then what is already known. First, in the text “Education as Maturity” states the argument of knowing your knowledge and expressing it or not in the fact of being able to except the understanding of it. When expressing that of ones knowledge in a way of positive or negative effect can help one understand that of what they need to adapt or add on to what they already know. Secondly, not knowing a subject that is being projected can help one take the understanding and gain knowledge from an obsolete subject. As in the text “Think About It” shows the reasoning of someone not having knowledge in the subject being conversed but being able to understand and gain the knowledge that can be placed somewhere else. Next, when only having a strict way of viewing things the objects being seen are that of ones knowledge until being able to see things differently. When finding the real truth about what use to be the only knowledge of a person helps lead to the understanding of what the reality is as shown in “The Allegory of the Cave”. Finally, in the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest presents the case of Mr. McMurphy the...