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Religious Faith Human Soul
705 wordsI think that the immortality of the human soul can be established in a demonstrative way by philosophical reason, through a sufficiently deep analysis of intellectual knowledge, of free will and of disinterested feelings such as that "immortal instinct for beauty", of which Poe and Baudelaire spoke. Here we are confronted with spirituality, or intrinsic independence from matter. And the spirituality characteristic of the activity in question makes us conclude to the spirituality of its first pri...
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True Or False Moral Judgements
4,317 words... ons of deaths, that it impoverishes the country in which it is adopted, and that it greatly restricts people's freedom. I think that is a good argument. It certainly is not some kind of simple logical fallacy, as the concept of 'the naturalistic fallacy' would presumably imply, since I am deriving a moral judgement from other, non-moral judgements. It might be, and standard is, replied that the argument presupposes certain implicit moral judgements, that life, prosperity, and freedom are goo...
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True Nature Human Mind
806 wordsSeven men have come to stand out from all their counterparts in what has come to be known as the modern period in the history of philosophy: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume and Kant. Essentially these modern philosophers, with perhaps the exception of Kant, have been classified into two distinctive streams of philosophical thought rationalism and empiricism. The following discussion will focus on understanding the division between these streams of philosophy. The focus will pr...
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Los Angeles Systems Theory
1,859 wordsThe Roy Adaptation Model for Nursing had it's beginning with Sister Callista Roy entered the masters program in pediatric nursing at the University of California in Los Angeles in 1964. Dorothy E. Johnson, Roy's advisor and seminar faculty, was speaking at the time on the need to define the goal of nursing as a way of focusing the development of knowledge for practice. During Roy's first seminar in pediatric nursing, she proposed that the goal of nursing was promoting patient adaptation. Johnson...
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Conflict Between States Conceptions Of War Definition
1,257 wordsCicero defines war broadly as 'a contention by force'; Hugo Grotius adds that 'war is the state of contending parties, considered as such'; Thomas Hobbes notes that war is also an attitude: 'By war is meant a state of affairs, which may exist even while its operations are not continued'; Denis Diderot comments that war is 'a convulsive and violent disease of the body politic; ' for Karl von Clausewitz, 'war is the continuation of politics by other means', and so on. Each definition has its stren...
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Peoples Lives Objective Reality
1,019 wordsExistentialism, Ethics, & Consciousness The operating apparatus of existentialism differs from traditional philosophical methods that are based on rationalism as something that corresponds to the essence of objective reality. Individuals existence is considered by Emerson, Nietzsche, and Kierkegaard as something that defines its own properties. According to them, the essence of every ontological idea is different, in its relation to every particular individual. This is because the emotional prop...
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Jean Paul Sartre Objective Reality
1,031 wordsExistentialism, Ethics, & Consciousness The operating apparatus of existentialism differs from traditional philosophical methods that are based on rationalism as something that corresponds to the essence of objective reality. Individuals existence is considered by existentialists as something that defines its own properties. According to them, the essence of every ontological idea is different, in its relation to every particular individual. This is because the emotional properties of persons ch...
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Age Of Reason Objective Reality
1,373 wordsVoltaires Candide (1) The first half of 18 th century, when Voltaire wrote his famous book Candide, is now being referred to as the Age of Reason, which explains the fact why, despite fictionist nature of Voltaire novella, it incorporates many elements of classical rhetoric, as if author strived to convince readers in plausibleness of his worldview. The Age of Reason was the time when Christianity was rapidly loosing its ideological credibility, which caused many notable intellectuals of the tim...
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Meditations On First Philosophy Cartesian Dualism
2,156 wordsMeditations by Descartes The main feature of European philosophical thought is that it never loses its actuality, regardless of whether it promotes the idea of thing of itself or denies objectivity to anything that doesnt have a direct relation to our sensory perception of the world. One of the best examples to this is philosophy of Rene Descartes, which shows us that ones ability to operate with abstract categories accounts as the most important factor, when it comes to establishing a certain s...
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C S Lewis Website N P
1,016 wordsC. S. Lewis, His Life and Writting Style Lewis represents an impressive effort to describe position of Catholic Church and popularize it all over the world. Actually, the majority of his works can be called the attempts of dramatizing the attitude to religion, moral values, purity, theology and literary criticism in the 20 th century. His contribution to theology, childrens literature, literary criticism, and fantasy literature is really great. Yet, his most recognized works are dedicated to Chr...
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Telling The Truth Plato Apology
1,455 wordsWho is real Socrates: the humble man or the heroic figure? Plato's Apology portrays Socrates as the person of definite kind of personality this is a self-assured man, generous, indifferent towards the successes of human living. He was sure that a divine spirit directs and inspires him, and that a clear mind is the primary condition providing for virtuous life of human. If the last point is not taken into consideration, Socrates resembles the Christian martyr or a Puritan. The last part of his sp...
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French Philosopher Moral Laws
1,949 wordsCompare and contrast Locke and Bayle XVII century was a century of rise and updating of human spirit, radical breakage of becoming obsolete social and economic and political orders, out-of-date spiritual, scientific, moral, aesthetic, philosophical traditions not only in England, but also in continental Europe. Bright representatives of that time were Pierre Bayle and John Locke. The purpose of the given essay is the comparative characteristic of these two philosophers, and also comparison of th...
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Meditations On First Philosophy Matter Of Fact
1,366 wordsAnalytical/Critical Paper on Descartes Meditation 6 - Last Paragraph The name of Descartes we commonly associate with the concept of, so-called, Cartesian Dualism. In his Meditations on First Philosophy Descartes suggested the parallel existence of two, fundamentally opposite essences material body and immaterial mind, where immaterial mind is fully independent of its body and even capable of existing without it. According to him, physical and mental substances have its properties: extension cor...
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The Zen And Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance
1,761 wordsThe Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance The book by Pirsig contains a whole mirage of ideas and elaborate theories on life and the world within it. It is a search for truth, and understanding of knowledge at its highest. The narrator and his son are simple marionettes used to string along the underlying themes that Pirsig is trying to get across. Within these marionettes you will find the true meaning of the story depicted through Pirsig's metaphoric use of imagery. In the narrators journe...
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Greek City States Alexander The Great
806 wordsQ. 3 Write a comprehensive essay on the Greeks socio-political philosophical development after the death of Alexander the Great. After the death of Alexander the Great, the Greek city-states began to decay as they became part of the power struggle for the Hellenistic kings who tried to fill Alexanders shoes. Life during this time was often troubled and chaotic. It was during this time when new types of philosophical ideas began to develop. The philosophical schools which arose out of this troubl...
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Greek City States Order To Understand
1,172 wordsImagine studying the political and social developments of the 20 th century without ever considering Communism or evaluating the idea of Fascism. Envision a Russia without the effects of Joseph Stain or a Germany untouched by the doctrine of Adolph Hitler. The above statements seem incredible because these systems created so much of the political and social turmoil throughout this century. Just as politics seems incomplete without the prevalence of these ideas, it is also incomplete without the ...
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Thomas Aquinas Human Beings
854 wordsIntelli go Ut Credit (I Know in Order to Believe) by Kenneth A. Holt The influence of Aristotle on Thomas Aquinas is evident from the fact that Thomas gave had to give knowledge gained by human reason quite a different value from what was usual in the theological tradition. There was no disputing the fact that reason has its own independence against faith. The new desire for knowledge, for science, had to be taken seriously. Earlier theologians had proved the justification for reason alongside f...
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Nature Of God Philosophy Of Religion
1,017 wordsMonotheism Vs. Polytheism; The Problems With One Monotheism Vs. Polytheism; The Problems With One Deity. Monotheism vs. Polytheism; The problems with one Deity. The philosophical investigation of the nature and grounds of religious beliefs is one of the oldest and most persistent areas of philosophical endeavor. Religious belief and practice give rise to a variety of philosophical issues, posing epistemological questions about the justification of religious belief, metaphysical questions about t...
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Jean Paul Sartre Madness
2,375 words? Jean Paul Sartre has been described as one of the most controversial of modern French playwrights, and his work is also known extensively outside France. ? Examine the aims of the writer through close exploration of two of his plays. 2 nd year/ 2 nd term (31. 3. 2000)? B. A. Hons. Acting Studies Essay by Ralph Gassmann Jean-Paul Sartre was born in Paris on the 21 st of June 1905. He studied at the? cole Normale and subsequently became a lecturer in philosophy working in provincial secondary sc...
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Don Juan Hallucinogenic Mushrooms
1,513 wordsA MYTHICAL ANALYSIS OF A YAQUI WAY OF KNOWLEDGE In the summer of 1960, Carlos Casteneda, a UCLA anthropology student traveled to the southwest to do research on medicinal plants. While at a bus station, he met an extraordinary man. His name was don Juan Mateus, but I will refer to him as don Juan. Don Juan, a Yaqui bruno or shaman, decides to teach Carlos the Yaqui way of knowledge. It is not known if these stories are fiction or non-fiction and many critics still debate over his writings. I int...
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