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Cognitive Dissonance Mental States
1,476 wordster>Sam Vaknin's Psychology, Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites What are friends for and how can a friendship be tested? By behaving altruistically, would be the most common answer and by sacrificing one's interests in favour of one's friends. Friendship implies the converse of egoism, both psychologically and ethically. But then we say that the dog is "man's best friend." After all, it is characterized by unconditional love, by unselfish behaviour...
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Choices We Make Human Behavior
999 wordsSuppose that every event or action has a sufficient cause, which brings that event about. Today, in our scientific age, this sounds like a reasonable assumption. After all, can you imagine someone seriously claiming that when it rains, or when a plane crashes, or when a business succeeds, there might be no cause for it? Surely, human behavior is caused. It doesn't just happen for no reason at all. The types of human behavior for which people are held morally accountable are usually said to be ca...
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Cloning Individualistic And Communitarian View
1,648 wordsIn many controversial topics around the world, such as abortion, gun control, legalized drugs, the death penalty, and cloning (to name a few), we can find differing positions, and opinions. Many of these arguments, can be narrowed down to two different views, or constructs: individualistic and communitarian (an image of collectivism). An individualistic viewpoint "stresses the rights of the individual as a unique being" (class review). A communitarian viewpoint is more concerned with the good fo...
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Young Goodman Brown Browns Faith
957 wordsDeterminism is a philosophical doctrine that holds that all events. In its strictest form determinism denies free will or volition. In fact, the conflict of free will and determinism has often been the subject of philosophical debate and creative fiction. One famous work of creative fiction that deals with the conflict of free will and determinism is Nathaniel Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown. In Young Goodman Brown Hawthorne shows that Goodman Brown transformed from someone who believes that he ...
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Make A Difference Human Behavior
1,073 wordsWe ought then regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its previous state and the cause of the one which is to follow. An intelligence knowing at a given instant of time all the forces operating in nature, as well as the position at that instant of all things of which the universe consists, would be able to comprehend the motions of the largest bodies in the universe and those of the smallest atoms in a single formula provided that it was sufficiently powerful to submit all thes...
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Killing His Father Choices We Make
1,686 wordsIs Man Free or Determined? Suppose that every event or action has a sufficient cause, which brings that event about. Today, in our scientific age, this sounds like a reasonable assumption. After all, can you imagine someone seriously claiming that when it rains, or when a plane crashes, or when a business succeeds, there might be no cause for it? Surely, human behavior is caused. It doesnt just happen for any reason at all. The types of human behavior for which people are held morally accountabl...
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