Dear Diary 1 Dear Diary Rhonda M. McCarthy PSYC 4100 History and Modern Systems of Psychology rmccarthy1@capellauniversity.edu Professor Sanjay Paul Dear Diary 2 Plato I‚ Plato‚ do attest to my disdain for perception as a basis for knowledge. It is an affront and an insult to the superiority of the human mind! Notwithstanding‚ the mentioning of the political strife that besets my beloved city of Athens. I remain baffled by the neglect to and lack of understanding by my colleagues that recollection
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In this paper I will argue Sam Harris’s opinion on free will is not comprehensive in terms of philosophical view because he does not pay attention on the role played by the spirit level of a person cooperating with the human nerve system; because if there is no such thing as "Free will"‚ we cannot take responsibility of our own action. Whether free will exist is a controversial question philosopher have debated on for many years. Like Sam Harris’s opinion that free will is mostly derived from the
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defining the basic ones. It is true that they both operate with the notion of causa as a starting point for their distinction between action and passion‚ but we should draw our attention to what follows and what comes in between their principles of causality and the definitions of the basic affects to rightly appreciate the differ ence in their approaches. In reality‚ though‚ we already find important differences in the relational structure between the notions of action‚ passion and cause. In the very
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Response Paper McCloskey Article (278.205 Kb) Having completed the unit of philosophy of religion‚ you are now ready to respond to an article written by an actual atheist. This article‚ titled “On Being an Atheist‚” was written by H. J. McCloskey in 1968 for the journal Question. McCloskey is an Australian philosopher who wrote a number of atheistic works in the 1960s and 70s including the book God and Evil (Nijhoff‚ 1974). In this article‚ McCloskey is both critical of the classical arguments
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Jessica Black-212160 Philosophy 8-17-2012 McCloskey There are many different types of arguments for the existence of God. With each argument there is a conception presented of God. For each argument there are different approaches. I will be focusing on the Cosmological and Teleological Arguments. Teleological Arguments are known to be arguments from divine‚ arguing from order in the universe to the existence of God (1).With the ordering of
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In his article‚ On Being an Atheist‚ H.J. McCloskey tried to show that atheism is a more reasonable and comfortable belief than that of Christianity. McCloskey argued against the three theistic proofs‚ which are the cosmological argument‚ the teleological argument and the argument from design. He pointed out the existence of evil in the world that God made. He also pointed out that it is irrational to live by faith. According to McCloskey‚ proofs do not necessarily play a vital role in the
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(1.a.) Clarke’s first argument is God’s existence as a sufficient infinite reality in Person and Being. The first step of Clarke’s argument is “given any conditioned being‚ there must exist at least one absolutely unconditioned‚ or self-sufficient being (Clarke 215).” Every living thing is conditioned‚ in that it requires a cause. We are all radically conditioned to exist and we depend on other things to keep us that way. Humans for example exist do to their parents and they keeping existing because
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causation is a link/connection between at least two facts‚ where one fact arises from the other. One fact is the cause of another‚ one fact only exists because of the other. Because life is quite dynamic‚ it is quite difficult to find a general test for causality. A test for factual causation would then be based on what facts could be proved. This means that the factual causation would depend on the facts and circumstances of each case. Factual causation is pure question of fact‚ it either exists or it doesn’t
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Was there a bacteriological revolution in the 19th century? Introduction The changes in medicine‚ and particularly epidemiology‚ that took place during the 19th century‚ concentrated in the latter half of the century‚ are often referred to as a revolution by medical historians. Here I consider whether these changes exemplify a Kuhnian revolution. To do this I first outline the characteristics of a Kuhnian revolution‚ I will then outline the changes in medical practice over the 19th century. I will
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SHADOW OF A DOUBT 1.Story and Plot A narrative film is made up of a series of events of cause and effect relationships occurring in time and space. It begins with one situation and after a chain of events and obstacles a new situation arises to end the narrative. A narrative film’s plot is everything audibly and visibly presented onscreen‚ and what the viewer interprets‚ used to tell and to present information about a story. The main plot for Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Shadow of a Doubt’ can
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