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    object-given reason) of living out your life. In a less widely accepted and more cruelly (and seemingly suicidal) manner‚ Subjectivists claim that you have no reason to take the medicine or to keep on living. Accordingly‚ this counterexample defends the belief that there are in fact object-given reasons and objective moral truths. Still‚ Williams may attack this counterexample by - as opposed to addressing the example itself - defending the aforementioned unconventional Subjectivist view. If you do not

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    SHC 22 1.1 Describe and explain the duties and responsibilities of your own work role. My duties starts in the morning when I have to welcome the children and start to get involved in their activities‚ which vary depending on which child age I am asked to supervise. I assist other members of staff to support the children in their personal development in different ways: setting some interesting activities for them‚ support their routine. I give them along side my mentor the opportunity to learn

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    Mark Mureithi AP English Mr. Munson Moby Dick Essay: Chapter 58 It is in human nature to hold in contempt and fear things unknown to them‚ on the other hand many people hold the pursuit of knowledge as the one true path to fulfillment in life. The dangers of the pursuit of knowledge are an underlying topic in Ishmael’s discussion of brit. Ishmael describes the sea as enigmatic and immensely more dangerous than the land; in doing so reveals how attempting to study the unknown in the pursuit of

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    When listing the chracteristics of postmodernism‚ it is important to remember that postmodernists do not place their philosophy in a defined box or category. Their beliefs and practices are personal rather than being identifiable with a particular establishment or special interest group. The following principles appear elemental to postmodernists: • There is no absolute truth - Postmodernists believe that the notion of truth is a contrived illusion‚ misused by people and special interest groups

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    A critique of “Openness as a Transformative Force‚” by Ossi Kuittinen Since I’ve started this course of study‚ I’ve always agreed with the beliefs of open knowledge or data; always finding the readings interesting that support open knowledge on their own terms‚ but I seldom find a reading that I agree with the writer’s purpose and not the grounds they base it on. In the reading‚ Kuittinen talks about the innovation of open knowledge or data in society. He discusses how in our society‚ knowledge

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    Using materials from the item and elsewhere‚ assess the view that there is little difference between scientific theories‚ religious doctrines and political ideologies. An ideology is most commonly regarded as a set of ideas and values shared by a social group. Some people‚ for example Inclusivists‚ believe that there is little difference between scientific theories‚ religious doctrines and political ideologies. This is because an Inclusivist’s definition of religion is very broad. Anything which

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    Plato v.s. Aristotle

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    which exist in the real world. However‚ Plato states that there is somewhere out in the atmosphere‚ the idea of a perfect table in which all creators of a table base their crappy tables off of. Plato talks about the allegory of the cave cast his beliefs on metaphysics and epistemology. First‚ he describes people who are forced to sit and watch shadows on a cave wall for the entirety of their lives. The shadows represent how regular people see objects in everyday life. If one of these people‚ who

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    the watchful eyes of their peers and the majority‚ people feel pressured to conform to everyone else’s beliefs‚ and‚ in doing so‚ lose their individuality. This process is shown in Henrik Ibsen’s Enemy of the People. In this play‚ authority and the overwhelming opinions of the majority pressure those with conflicting opinions to conform to the rest‚ causing them to lose their own individual beliefs‚ revealing that the power of majority causes corruption in society. The process of the loss

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    opposites. Disappointment is certain. It is the feeling we all get when something or someone fails to live up to our expectations. Everybody‚ at least one time in their lives‚ has this feeling. That is why I understand the boy’s feeling‚ especially in his belief in God: he will be saved and received by Jesus. His aunt had told him what to expect when he is saved: "You saw a light‚ and something happened to you inside." But what came to inside his mind is just a hoax. Nothing happens and

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    unexpected insights Representing an ‘absolute truth’ is impossible. Inherent human bias affects both history and memory. We unintentionally falsify parts of the past in order to emphasise the nature of past events we find central to our individual beliefs. Therefore we are challenged with obvious limitations in representing the ‘truth’. The interplay of history and memory however‚ leads to a rather satiable and tangible level of truth. Nonetheless‚ it is yet to be seen that this satisfiable level of

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