“Consumer society gives people choice.” Discuss this claim. UK society in the past has been described as an industrial society with social classes being defined around a person’s employment status. Consequently‚ only those who were very wealthy and had surplus income were considered consumers. However‚ with developments in technologies‚ an increased amount of workers in “white collar” jobs and shifts in living costs‚ the term “consumer society” is one which suggests our contemporary life styles
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Evaluate the claim that “moral values cannot be derived from facts” The claim that moral values cannot be derived from facts concerns the distinction between facts and values and the difference between what is and what ought to be. There are those who argue that the claim is false‚ such as naturalists‚ who argue that there are indeed natural facts thus suggesting that moral values can be indentified as possessing empirical properties. Naturalists suggest that moral truths can be derived from
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Critically assess the claim the claim that the conscience has ultimate moral authority Thobeka Kellett Conscience is said to be a voice or feeling that dictates a persons moral decisions this feeling of a sense of right and wrong has no definite definition and its argued among psychologists‚ philosophers and religious believers what the true origin of this feeling is. Some psychologists argue that we are born with this and this part of our personality is created by our social surroundings and
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Direct Claim: Rental Car Refund Complaint I have a horror story of gargantuan proportions to relate to you so that you know how incompetent the amateurish bozos are that work for you! You should fire the whole Colorado Spring airport branch. I’m tired of lousy service and of being charged an arm and a leg for extras that end up not functioning properly. Calling your company is useless because no one answers the phone or returns callsm‚k9 ! In view of the fact that my colleague and I were forced
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PHIL 201 Study Guide Lesson 4: Making Claims and Defining Terms Points: A) The seven preliminary matters in preparing to philosophize – 1) Philosophizing involves four psychological traits that improve effective communication: the courage to examine one’s cherished beliefs critically‚ a willingness to advance tentative hypotheses and to take the first step in reacting to a philosophical claim‚ no matter how foolish that reaction might seem at the time‚ a desire to place the
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Robert Elliott’s central claim on Civil Rights in the nineteenth century is that change was truly a necessity for Americas future. Elliott’s speech brought awareness to the hypocrisy and blasphemous actions of politicians and American citizens towards black people during the civil war and the reconstruction era. Elliott believed in equality before the law and this meant that no matter what was written in the constitution‚ America must compromise for the sake of its future citizens. During his speech
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Evaluate Hume’s claim that miracles are the least likely of events. (35 marks) Hume defined miracles to be a “violation of the laws of nature” According to Hume‚ no matter how strong the evidence for a specific miracle may be‚ it will always be more rational to reject the miracle than to believe in it. The definition of Hume is both logical and objective as it esquires empirical evidence‚ e.g. Ockham’s razor‚ the simplest explanation is the correct one and therefore miracles do not occur. Hume was
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I recently read “Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot” by Robert Butler which is written in first person narrator form. Writing this story in first person narrator form makes this particular story very interesting and much better of a story‚ and keeps the reader very interested in the story. When Butler writes this story he sets the story up from the beginning when he recognizes his wife‚ this places the reader in a zone to try and figure out how exactly the story is going to play out. In the
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Water is no doubt very important. Our ancestors survived and thrived without oil. Water was vital‚ for drinking‚ agriculture and sanitation amongst many other uses. However‚ with the advent of oil in the 1960s‚ the importance of water has been diminished to a point where oil is more important than water. In this modern era‚ energy use has skyrocketed‚ human population augmented greatly and the world‚ globalised. It is in this era‚ oil is more important because it is the crux of development of a nation
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Discuss the claim that some areas of knowledge are discovered and others are invented By Olivia Emans In my opinion an invention may be defined as a new device‚ method‚ or process developed from study and experimentation whereas a discovery is an act or process of finding something or somebody‚ or learning about something that was not known about before. Another way of differentiating discovery and invention is in the following: A discovery is something someone else can test for himself and find
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