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Epic Of Gilgamesh Meaning Of Life
1,103 wordsStories do not need to inform us of anything. They do inform us of things. From The Epic of Gilgamesh, for example, we know something of the people who lived in the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the second and third millenniums BCE. We know they celebrated a king named Gilgamesh; we know they believed in many gods; we know they were self-conscious of their own cultivation of the natural world; and we know they were literate. These things we can fix -- or establish definitely. B...
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Shin Buddhism Amida Butsu Dharma
618 wordsShin Buddhism was the creation of Shinran Shin, who lived in Japan around 800 years ago. He saw, as did Buddha, that what stands in the way of our awakening to the Dharma is really only us. Specifically, it is our ego, or that illusion we have that we are a fixed and separate entity apart from everything else. Thus, Shin Buddhism starts by getting us to see our egocentric, arrogant and self-centered nature. Shin Buddhism "attacks" our ego-self. When we awaken to the fallacy of our "self, " we ar...
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Coca Cola Sensual Pleasure
1,790 wordsIn Utilitarianism, J. S. Mill was trying to show that "actions and institutions should increase the overall amount of happiness in the world", and stressed the importance of utilitarianism as the first principle in ethics, to which any ambiguities with second principles such as 'do not kill' may appeal. In this discussion, it is first of all necessary to examine what Mill meant by each of these statements in isolation, before going on to explore how he attempts to reconcile these two statements....
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Charles Scribner Sons York Charles Scribner
1,269 wordsBernard Bolzano was a philosopher and mathematician whose contributions were not truly recognized until long after his death. He is especially important in the fields of logic geometry and the theory or real numbers. Bernardus Placidus Johann Nepomuk Bolzano was born in Prague, Bohemia, (which is now part of the Czech Republic), on October 5, 1781 as the fourth child out of twelve children. His mother was a German-speaking native of Prague, his father a dealer in small wares from Northern Italy ...
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Centuries Ago Long Time
760 wordsMathematical logic is something that has been around for a very long time. Centuries Ago Greek and other logicians tried to make sense out of mathematical proofs. As time went on other people tried to do the same thing but using only symbols and variables. But I will get into detail about that a little later. There is also something called set theory, which is related with this. In mathematical logic a lot of terms are used such as axiom and proofs. A lot of things in math can be proven, but the...
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Malevich Supremacist Pure Sensation Square
582 wordsMax Blythe Humanities Labour MWF 8 - 9 Red Square The painting Red Square by Russian painter Kashmir Malevich is a particularly interesting piece. It is simple red square on a white background representing a peasant woman. It is an example of the Malevich's unique style of suprematism, which focuses on motion and feeling. The painting was done near the beginning of the twentieth century when science was developing at a rapid rate. Einstein's Theory of Relativity was gaining ground at the time. M...
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Mind And Body Existence Of God
1,140 wordsIn the Sixth Meditation, Descartes makes a point that there is a distinction between mind and body. It is in Meditation Two when Descartes believes he has shown the mind to be better known than the body. In Meditation Six, however, he goes on to claim that, as he knows his mind and knows clearly and distinctly that its essence consists purely of thought. Also, that bodies' essences consist purely of extension, and that he can conceive of his mind and body as existing separately. By the power of ...
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Greater Can Be Conceived Exist In Reality
1,011 wordsPJ: Hey Bob. Why are you all dressed up? Bob: Well I just got back from church. PJ: When are you going to give up on that God thing? Bob: Never. Infact I bet you $ 10 that I can prove the existence of god. Bob: Ok, the first thing you need to understand is the PSR. Bob: Its the Principle of Sufficient Reason. It states every event has a cause. i. e. you Bob: The next thing you have to understand is the difference between something being contingent or necessary. A contingent being doesnt explain ...
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Greek Philosophy Small Things
1,093 wordsGreek philosophy was first born in Ionia, where the main place of study, which produced the first great thinkers, was Miletus. The school of Miletus spawned the three first philosophers of the time. Anaxagoras was a philosopher from approximately 500 to 428. He used ideas from past philosophers to come up with ideas that contradicted as well as complemented views of philosophers from the past. These early philosophers had one thing on their minds, Overarching Principle. There was understanding t...
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God Exists Natural World
384 wordsTo say that God does exist, is to say that we can prove God exists by describing some proof we have of this statement, or at least a being with what we think some of the attributes of a God would be. Since we cannot prove beyond reasonable doubt that God exists we have to infer certain things about how we came to be. We can do this by using terms such as motion and causality. These are terms that attempt to explain that for every action there must be a cause, or chain of events, In this case, hu...
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Love Is Boundless Killed God Heaven
755 words"Mommy, I've killed God. " You wanted a scar; there it is, plain as day (no two-level, deep meanings attached). My scar isn't external, nor, do I suppose, is it internal. Heck, I don't know what it is but all my life I know it's been my scar, my burden. I have a problem with Christianity. But I don't show disrespect to those who choose to follow it (unless they try to impose their beliefs on me), and I don't force my thoughts on anyone (you are choosing to read this). You want sex, intoxication,...
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Dead Sea Scrolls Existence Of God
1,205 wordsI believe that there is a supernatural being. This being is so powerful and almighty that no one can fully understand how or why He does such amazing and sometimes shattering things. The God I put my faith in shows me in many ways that He is the creator and Lord of everything. He controls all of mankind, the creatures that walk or crawl the earth, and the events that take place. He allows things to go right and to go wrong. He has an ultimate plan for every person just as long as you let Him ful...
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Censor The Internet Form Of Communication
1,122 wordsLaws, enforcements, and censorship have been developed since the beginning of civilization. With freedom, comes responsibility, and with responsibility comes common sense. In a society or nation of few, laws and restriction tend to be smaller, and less complex. This is contributed by the fact that in small groups, their will be less diversity amongst them. In larger society ranging in millions to billions, the need for a more complex, organized government begins to form. No human is in fact alik...
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Material Substance God Created
1,635 wordster> Sam Vaknin's Psychology, Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites Occasionalism is a variation upon Cartesian metaphysics. The latter is the most notorious case of dualism (mind and body, for instance). The mind is a mental substance. The body a material substance. What permits the complex interactions which happen between these two disparate substances? The unexpended mind and the extended body surely cannot interact without a mediating agency, Go...
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Set Of Rules Lower Level
1,626 words... f Quantum Mechanics is an important member of this species. The law of parsimony must apply both to the theory entities AND to observable results, both part of a coherent, internally and externally consistent, logical (in short: scientific) theory. It is divergent-convergent: it diverges from strict correspondence to reality while theorizing, only to converge with it when testing the predictions yielded by the theory. Quarks may or may not exist but their effects do, and these effects are ob...
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Work Of Art Art Work
1,142 words... e case of water) - which cannot be predicted from a complete knowledge of the constituent parts (single gas molecules or hydrogen and oxygen). Can the thinking process be surmised from the study of a single neurone - or is the Whole brain under observation the precondition? We can never be sure that the essence of the Whole is, indeed, resident in the part. Holograms and fractals are one case: the shape of the Whole is absolutely discernible in the tiniest part. Still shape is only one param...
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Compact Disk Popular Music
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Rock Star Hair Mute Button Light
743 wordsHis face was tranquil and still, the force of fortitude in the midst of the chaotic flickering of light that danced across his lips. Illuminated as violence played across the screen of the television, he lay at rest across the room: a distance not unconquerable in terms of metrics, but invincible in measures that mattered. His face fell dark as the parallel universe closed a dramatic sequence. The mundane impact of the Mute button only added to the gap bridged solely by the light, as the room wa...
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Discovery Of Marie Curie
624 wordsNovember 4, 2003 Discovery of Marie Curie Two things will never cease to amaze us, -- the infinite starlit heaven above our heads, and the infinite spiritual space within us. All people are talented, all people have a gift from the Lord, but not everybody discovers this talent, not everybody develops it. Paradoxically, but generally just the brightest people at the beginning of their life had more obstacles and sufferings then other people. Maybe the suffering and barriers are just what can allo...
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Consciousness Schleiermacher Absolute Dependence Religion
961 wordsFriedrich Schleiermacher, a Protestant theologian, philosopher, and educator, who wrote On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers (1799), ventured into Christian dogmatics in a non-conventional yet avant-garde manner. His new approach to critically analyzing religion signaled the beginning of the era of Protestant Liberal Theology whilst simultaneously placing his book among the classic substantive works that speaks to religion and Christian faith (Schleiermacher vii). Schleiermacher, some...
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