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Ayn Rand Moral Principle
1,164 words... as turned down by 12 publishers). For example, in Atlas Shrugged, Rand obscured historical realities to reinforce her argument and once again exaggerated the situation. Thus, the Taggart Railroad of the novel, the central setting, may strike someone with an average knowledge of American history as the kind of thing that never existed. Most people know that the transcontinental railroads were built with federal subsidies and federal land grants, (which is ironic within itself. Rands theory de...
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Teach Their Children Children At Home
2,911 wordsHome schooling (1) It is not a secret that the quality of public education in America has considerably dropped in last two decades. This tendency goes along with students increasing inability to identify public issues that are crucial to the effective functioning of democracy in this country. Many people point out to the fact that public schools in America are slowly turning into places where children learn the basics of crime, instead of receiving a factual knowledge. Therefore, parents express...
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Empirical Knowledge Adult Learners
1,756 wordsHow Adults Learn (1) More and more contemporary educators adopt a new approach to the subject of adult education. This comes as a result of realization that adult education has its own unique specifics, which in its turn, suggests an application of specifically designed educational methods that are meant to help adult in reaching its academic goals. While children learn from the scratch, adults already posses different types of knowledge, which often prevents them from being able to effectively ...
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Knowledge And Experience Aspects Of Human
1,497 wordsThe Categorical Imperative Applied to a False Promise In the Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals, Kant seeks to establish the supreme principle of morality (Kant. 392), the categorical imperative, to act as a standard to which actions can be evaluated for their moral worth. Kant believes that actions motivated by personal experience, whether through observation, indoctrination or some other capacity, lack moral worth because such actions are not determined by the conception of moral law. Wh...
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Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged
2,421 wordsThe Joys Of Contriving Literature (Why Ayn The Joys Of Contriving Literature (Why Ayn Rands Theories Dont Hold Water) No thinker, perhaps, has had more influence upon contemporary libertarians than the novelist and non-academic philosopher, Ayn Rand. For that reason alone, she deserves attention; however, many of her arguments have been misunderstood, misrepresented or ignored. As George Smith has commented, ? there has appeared relatively little in the way of competent reflection of Ayn Rand as...
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Immanuel Kant Empirical Knowledge
2,638 wordsTABLE OF CONTENTTHE PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPT OF TRUTH 2. THE ACHIEVEMENT OF TRUTTHE PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPT OF TRUTH Epistemology is the study of what we know, how we know, and what we can or cannot know. In Epistemology, students are asked many questions about Truth and Knowledge. Here are two basic questions that students may be asked, What is Truth? and Can we really have Truth? The simple answer to this question is yes. Truth, in a philosophical term is defined as What the universe actually is no...
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