“That which is accepted as knowledge today is sometimes discarded tomorrow.” Consider knowledge issues raised by this statement in two areas of knowledge. Nowadays‚ due to for example technological development‚ every day can bring us a new knowledge. Something that yesterday was unthinkable‚ today turned into reality. Does that work in the opposite way? Does knowledge from hundreds of years ago is still considered as truth? Does knowledge have a period of validity? I found it very interesting
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Philosophies of Sophie’s World Sophie’s World Berkeley Signature Edition/March 1996 The Garden of Eden-pg 2 Sophie is introduced to two questions she has not really thought about‚ but is very important questions to philosophers. She realizes that these questions are really important but most people take these questions for granted. When we are little children‚ we are easily amazed by many things that older people see as bland since they are used to it. Philosophers are like children that
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In the beginning of part 10‚ Demea and Philo start of by having a conversation claiming that in order for humans to find out the truth of religion‚ they must first have to see the misery and the wickedness of men. Demea replies to Philo by saying that all humans are convinced of the unhappy truth about religion. She explains that people all over the world are aware of the miseries of life‚ of the unhappiness‚ the corruption of nature‚ and the unsatisfactory enjoyment of pleasures‚ riches‚ and honors
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PHILOSOPHY 1100: THE MEANING OF LIFE Different Approaches to the Meaning of Life 1. Why we want to know the ‘meaning of life’ The question "what is the meaning of life?" is often treated as a paradigmatic "head in the clouds" sort of philosophical question that more practical people shouldn’t have the time for‚ but its actually a question of tremendous practical importance. Further‚ it is a question to which most people‚ even those who claim to have no interest in such questions‚ answer implicitly
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is the risk‚ or what is the cost? Consequential based ethics breaks into two major schools of thought those are: Egoism‚ and Utilitarianism (Hollinger‚ 28). Consequential Egoism‚ is always looking for what is the highest good for ones experience. Epicurus held to these particular ideas and thoughts that‚ we naturally pursue personal pleasure or greatest good. Where as Consequential Utilitarianism represents the moral good or decision that is made for the greatest number and not just one. So just within
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If God does exist then how come evil exist as well? The overall view of God is that he is a theistic God. Since the theistic God is omnipotent and wholly good then there should not be evil because of the fact that good tries to cancel out evil as much as it possibly can. If the theistic God is both good and omnipotent then he would be able to eliminate evil as a whole‚ yet it is evident that there is still evil in the world. The argument of evil and omnipotence attempts to explain this better which
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Alfarabi and Aristotle: The Four Causes and The Four Stages of The Doctrine of The Intelligence Alfarabi was raised as a young boy in Baghdad. His early life was spent studying the art of linguistics‚ philosophy‚ and logic. His teachers were Syrian Christians experts in Greek philosophy. He studied Aristotle and Plato in detail‚ and it became evident in his later writings that they were a strong influence on him. He became quite a prolific writer‚ and he wrote more than 100 works‚ many of which
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Sophie’s World is a story focused around the subject of philosophy‚ as told from a child’s perspective. Sophie Amundsen is a fourteen-year-old girl living in Norway in 1990. She lives with her cat Sherekan‚ her goldfish‚ a tortoise‚ two budgerigars and her mother. Her father is a captain of an oil tanker‚ and is away for most of the year. One day Sophie is walking home from school with her friend Johanna. They have been discussing the human brain. Johanna thinks that people are robots; Sophie on
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a. Outline the Key Concepts of the Design Argument [21 marks] The design argument is also referred to at the Teleological Argument stemmed from the Greek work ‘Telos’ meaning end or purpose. It is an ‘A posterior’ argument (from experience) based on our empirical senses and it is synthetic meaning that it is from observation. The argument is also inductive meaning there a number of possible conclusions. The main basis of the Teleological argument is based on a designer commonly known as ‘the
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SOCIAL CONTRACT THEORY Social contract theory (or contractarianism) is a concept used in philosophy‚ political science and sociology to denote an implicit agreement within a state regarding the rights and responsibilities of the state and its citizens‚ or more generally a similar concord between a group and its members‚ or between individuals. All members within a society are assumed to agree to the terms of the social contract by their choice to stay within the society without violating the contract;
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