This allowed the Catholic Church to present the idea that Earth was special because it was God's greatest creation. Thus, the sun, stars, and planets worked for the Earth and not the other way around. The Earth stayed completely still at the center Continue Reading...
Once the reader gets past the language and time issues that have passed since Hume's lifetime, the ideas he presents become clear and make a great deal of sense. Hume uses several main arguments and conclusions in his writing. The first two are the Continue Reading...
Protagoras The Sophist philosopher named Protagoras -- ca 490-411 BCE, was a native of Thrace, in Greece, and was supposedly one of the first philosophers to have actually made use of his higher education to make money for himself, and this he did, Continue Reading...
Marx, however, took the reverse view of this approach to the topic of human reality. He held that human knowledge automatically begins from our experiences with the outside world -- from our sensations and perceptions -- consequently, interaction be Continue Reading...
Ibn Sina (or Abu Ali al-Husain ibn Abadllah and also known as Avicenna) of Hamadan, Persia (now Iran) believed himself to be a master of all the sciences, i.e., logic, the natural sciences and mathematics, and that all the gates of knowledge were ope Continue Reading...
This is where incentives come in to play. Wagner quotes Rudolf Hickel who distinguishes between an entrepreneurial state and a tax state (our present state of affairs). Hickel and Schumpeter both see the tax state as acting outside the normal laws o Continue Reading...
Epicurus Maintained That Our Deaths Will Do Us No Harm Explanation and Critical Assessment Death represents a subject that is commonly contemplated, often with anxiety. At least, people were anxious when this subject was raised during the era when Continue Reading...
A sea of buildings would cover the Island of Manhattan, and the iron tentacles of urbanization would extend outward over hundreds of square miles, even into distant Riverdale in Westchester County - the once rural site of Wave Hill. The picturesque Continue Reading...
Insider Trading from a "Utilitarian" ethical point-of-view. The paper discusses types of insider trading, the Utilitarian theory of Ethics and the arguments for and against insider trading. Ethics of Insider Trading Insider Trading generally refer Continue Reading...
Looking at one of Kulkarni's pieces, a Peasant in the City, oil on canvas done sometime in the 1960s, we see a trend in modern Indian art in which the protagonist is featured as a part of an abstract background. Literally, the piece is a snapshot o Continue Reading...
Descartes Cartesian dualism emerges from Descartes's approach of radical skepticism. Wanting to know what can be determined to be absolutely true, Descartes begins by doubting all sensory perception as fundamentally external and liable to interferen Continue Reading...
Augustine and Science Science in the modern sense did not exist for Augustine, or indeed for any of his contemporaries, nor were the events of the material universe and the physical-temporal bodies located within it of any great importance to him. N Continue Reading...
Qualities of a Successful Person Within American society there is perhaps one quality which is revered above all others, and that is the attainment of success. From professional success that can be measured by promotions and pay raises, to the perso Continue Reading...
Philosophical Analysis of Public Education and Curriculum Using Contemporary PhilosophersIntroductionThis paper seeks to use philosophy to find out what meaningful learning means in today\\\'s context. It also seeks to offer a serious philosophical a Continue Reading...
Jean-Francois Lyotard (the Postmodern condition: A Knowledge Report 1979) describes postmodernism in the context of nature of social bond. He argues that due to the advent of the technology and with the invention of computer, information has been m Continue Reading...
in "Piaf," Pam Gems provides a view into the life of the great French singer and arguably the greatest singer of her generation -- Edith Piaf. (Fildier and Primack, 1981), the slices that the playwright provides, more than adequately trace Continue Reading...
Plato and Aristotle on Individual Liberty and the Declaration of Independence Plato and Aristotle would respond to the statement of "rights" in the Declaration of the Independence with less enthusiasm or support for the notion than one might think c Continue Reading...
Jesus the Only Savior? Part I Pluralism It must first be noted that the author, Ronald H. Nash, was a Calvinist/Baptist philosopher and apologist and a professor on theology and history for more than four decades. He earned many more honors and oc Continue Reading...
Philosophy and Theology Philosophy is the study of wisdom while theology is the study of God. Some of the earliest and best known classical philosophers are Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. They essentially laid the foundation for Western philosophy b Continue Reading...
INTERVIEW WITH TEACHER & REPORT OF KNOWLEDGE GAINED Interview Context The interview in this study was conducted with Kari, raised by a single mother and the oldest of two children having a younger brother. Kari's parents were both supportive of Continue Reading...
The three authors presented above and their works were considering the different ways science and the results of scientific knowledge translated in the advance of technology influence human lives. Hawthorne saw technology positively influencing the Continue Reading...
worldview is a "set of presuppositions (assumptions which may be true, partially true or entirely false)," ("Four Major Worldviews," n.d.). The presuppositions that form our personal worldview have a strong bearing on our ongoing attitudes, behavior Continue Reading...
Epistemological Beliefs and Organizational Leadership Epistemological Philosophies: Comparing Plato and Protagoras To understand our quest for knowledge, we often have to go back to some of the classical theories in order to get a full view of how Continue Reading...
Human Nature A Comparison of Hobbes' and Plato's Philosophical Views Trying to understand how a philosopher arrives at the reasoned opinions they put on paper is essential to also understanding what they wrote. The how is often a matter of the peop Continue Reading...
A philosopher makes "logoi," discusses, and cross examines about virtue, is short of wisdom, and is aware of it. However, in as much as one is a philosopher, one desires wisdom and searches for it. In historical Greek, this notion is virtually a tau Continue Reading...
In this, the philosopher refers to his own views of philosophical truth as "naturalism" (Kemp 2). This refers to the way in which Quine reconceives the questions of existence and truth that concern philosophy. The philosopher in this way redefines t Continue Reading...
Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz are often accurately portrayed as the key figures representing the Continental rationalism. Continental rationalism is characterized by a belief that truth can be deduced from human reason, and that certain innate, or Continue Reading...
" This could not even be termed a desire to do good, as then it would be fulfilling someone's desire to do a good deed, and would therefore have a selfish motive. Kant is one of the very few that attempted to divorce happiness from morality; even tho Continue Reading...
Absolute Truth in the Philosophical Works of Plato and Friedrich Nietzsche The development of human civilization is a social movement that gave way for humans to further explore everything about the world they live in. Philosophers, in their pursui Continue Reading...
Educated Person The definition of education is not universal; nor is the definition of an educated person. In some cultures, education may mean being well-versed in age-old magical rituals, herbal lore, and spiritual healing. In others, education ma Continue Reading...
Akrasia: Aristotle and Socrates Akrasia, translated as lack of self-restraint or weakness of will, is a problematic concept in explaining bad states of character for many philosophers because of inconsistencies regarding the possibility of its exis Continue Reading...
We are, in essence, simply made up of a lot of different people through time and history. The people today are an evolved version of everyone that came before and this pattern will continue. This has to do with Spirit. He says, "Spirit is indeed nev Continue Reading...
There they see just how far removed from reality they previously were. In the cave, they knew only shadows of what were only copies of ordinary objects; in the light of the sun they are able to see the objects themselves and finally the sun itself, Continue Reading...
Descartes: Wax Argument Descartes philosophy heavily deals with the "thinking thing," of perception and knowledge, and the correlation of the two. Like Plato's views on knowledge and opinion, Descartes concludes that human perception -- or opinion, Continue Reading...
Instead, he challenges the reliability of the person who claims knowledge, by asking him for a definition that would hold for all circumstances. The point is not to ascertain whether he is right in this case, but to see whether his claim could hold Continue Reading...
Nearing the end of the 1960s, the analytic or language philosophy became the central focus point which led to the isolation of the classroom setting and the problems that came with it (Greene, 2000). Most of the educational philosophers of the time Continue Reading...
Epistemology and Philosophy of Socrates and Plato Epistemology is the theory of knowledge. It attempts to answer such questions as: How does one acquire one's knowledge? What is knowledge? What is possible for us to truly know? Epistemological inqui Continue Reading...
Educational Philosophy An educational philosophy guides a teacher’s practice in the classroom since it is used for decision making. Creating an educational philosophy is an important part of becoming a teacher or educator. This is primarily bec Continue Reading...
