Standing on the Sun is a book that pretends to be full of provocative ideas about the future of capitalism; in reality‚ it makes weak‚ pie in the sky arguments full of flawed reasoning. The book is foolishly optimistic and idealistic in some instances‚ while also managing to ignore staggering upside in other situations. My criticism will focus on four instances of flawed reasoning. Firstly‚ the author takes something that is rare (a fundamental economic revolution like the industrial revolution)
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a command of God. However‚ there are many oppositions to this theory‚ the most famous being the Euthyphro problem. The Euthyphro problem is known as a dilemma argument‚ meaning the structure is set up as follows; either God’s commands are arbitrary or God’s commands are based simply on his knowledge of right and wrong. This dilemma argument is formulated in such a way that if you believe either statement and its following conclusion to be true‚ the DCT is then inherently false. For example‚ if the
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Argument Analyzing Essay Human Resources‚ One of the most important factors any business need to consider any business. And with the rapidly developed technology‚ the human life is greatly improved but also many social related mental problems such as anxiety‚ depression. Of course there are many ways to treat such problems but most well-known treatment is psychotherapy and medication. There are many controversies about whether psychotherapy or medication is best for the patients. We will try
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Outline and discuss the causal argument. Descartes casts everything into doubt in the first meditation‚ including God Himself. He then comes to this disproval of this theory therefore concluding that God exists. This is brought about through the causal argument. Desartes begins this argument with the causal principle. This principle states that there must be at least as much reality in the effcient and total cause as in the effect of the cause. Therefore a cause is essential for an effect
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was a heated debate about the morality of slavery. Supporters of slavery in the 18th century used legal‚ economic‚ and religious arguments to defend slavery. They were able to do so effectively because all three of these reasons provide ample support of the peculiar institution that was so vital to the South. Legally speaking‚ the constitution offered numerous arguments for slavery and clearly protected the protected the people’s rights to own slaves. The 3/5 clause clearly states that slaves are
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Among other things‚ Renee Descartes was an influential philosopher during the enlightenment era. This era‚ which is characterized by what‚ at the time‚ was controversial thinking is exactly what Descartes was known for. His "out of the box" thinking not only raised eyebrows‚ but it also brought a lot to the table. One of his most discussed ideas was that of substance dualism. In this theory‚ Descartes describes the mind an body as two separate substances. But to completely understand exactly what
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supported by William Rowe’s evidential argument from evil and the factual premise‚ which explores instances of intense suffering which could have been prevented with the loss of good or by allowing further gracious evil that of moral and natural kind to occur. Theodicy objects the central claim and supporting argument by offering reasonings as to why God would allow instances of evil to occur and this notion is support by three primary supporting arguments of Theodicy. The first covers the concept
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The claim that is introduced needs more evidence and numbers to back it up. As the argument is currently presented‚ it dismantles itself. It states that "many lives may be saved" if individuals were inoculated against the disease but that there is only a "small possibility that a person will die as a result of the inoculations." A person viewing this with a critical eye‚ can immediately see that in this language‚ the amounts of lives saved by this inoculation will far outnumber the potential deaths
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The Teleological Argument for God There are many theories about how the universe‚ earth‚ and humans came into existence. Some aim to prove the existence of God‚ that a large explosion created all life‚ or even that everything has just always existed. One of these theories works to answer questions about creation and prove the existence of the Christian God; this theory is known as the Teleological argument. To expand my basis of knowledge on this subject I consulted Matthew Esters‚ who recently
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The infant industry argument is an economic reason for protectionism. The crux of the argument is that nascent industries often do not have the economies of scale that their older competitors from other countries may have‚ and thus need to be protected until they can attain similar economies of scale. It was first used by Alexander Hamilton in 1790 and later by Friedrich List‚ in 1841‚ to support protection for German manufacturing against British industry.[1] Protectionism allows an industry
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