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    Aristotle Virtue Theory

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    Aristotle’s Virtue theory is based on Teleology and the Golden Mean. He says that to be virtuous that we need to act with excellence. He believed that everything on this earth has its own virtue‚ meaning that if it performs the way it’s supposed to by its nature then it is virtuous. He asserted that every event had four causes or four factors that work on it and to bring it into being; 1) Material Cause- the “stuff the thing is made of. 2) Efficient Cause- the force that has brought it into being

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    three types of research

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    Three Types of Research 1. Causal Reseach When most people think of scientific experimentation‚ research on cause and effect is most often brought to mind. Experiments on causal relationships investigate the effect of one or more variables on one or more outcome variables. This type of research also determines if one variable causes another variable to occur or change. An example of this type of research would be altering the amount of a treatment and measuring the effect on study participants

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    Thinking Fast and Slow

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    Thinking‚ Fast and Slow Discussion Questions 1. One of the book’s more stunning examples of the priming effect takes place in an office kitchen. Employees would typically make themselves coffee or tea and in return would drop a small fee into an “honesty” box. Researchers designed an experiment that involved alternating weeks where either a picture of a flowerpot or a picture of a set of eyes was in the room. Donations were checked after ten weeks and researchers found that significantly more

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    The aim of this experiment is to test the relationship of how the probability of infection affects the people in the village when it is increased or decreased. This will determine whether the people in the village die or not from the epidemic. As the probability of infection is increased‚ the more people in the village will die. This is because the villagers are more likely to contract the disease‚ putting them at a higher risk of dying to the epidemic. As an example more people will survive in

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    The existence of God relies heavily on the idea that there must be a creator of everything‚ whether the creator is a person‚ or an event. The cosmological argument for the existence of God starts by asking why does something exist? And the logical follow through is everything exists has an explanation for its presence in the universe‚ the universe exists and therefore must have a creator. An argument could be made to say that God is the answer for who created the universe. Many will say that the

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    Theories Of Determinism

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    Part two‚ the other side: Like I said before freewill is a topic that philosophers have argued about over the years. Most times when the question ‘do you have freewill?’ is asked‚ a lot of individuals usually say they are free even without thinking twice. Although there are a lot of philosopher that believe we all have freewill and there are also other philosopher who have spoken up and tried to prove their point that humans have no freewill. Philosopher that argue that humans have no freewill are

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    Free Will Model

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    We would like to believe that every human has free will and the ability to choose one’s behavior and actions‚ however there is a philosophical challenge/problem with this idea. Determinism is the idea that every event has a cause‚ and it raises several questions towards our notion of free will when it is applied to human behavior. The garden of forking paths notion of free will attempts to model how a human can exercise free will. It essentially states that the natural way to exemplify free will

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    Determinism

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    According to Sider and Conee‚ determinism conflicts with the concept of free will. Since all events have single or multiple causes and are also caused by a prior event‚ the existence of free will is questioned. If a person woke up one day and felt energized‚ there would be a reason as to why he woke up that way and not any other way. Perhaps the reason would be that he had 12 hours of sleep‚ or that he woke up to a bright‚ sunny day. Determinism tells us that not only is there a reason why he woke

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    Initially‚ Knox claims modern society’s fear of unknowingly stumbling into a trap designed by fate and its lack of control over the future as the reasons for modern society’s continued interest in Sophocles’ Oedipus. Moreover‚ the modern man seems to have developed an incessant fear of the outcome of the unknown future. Knox illuminates this matter when he writes‚ “Sophocles has served modern man and his haunted sense of being caught in a trap...that every step we take forward on what we think is

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    The essential foundation behind humanistic/existential theories is that they address the facts of life‚ humankind’s natural the life stages‚ “existence‚ purpose‚ meaning‚ and reason for being” that every person at one time or the other will go through from birth until death (Barclay‚ 2016‚ p. 108). Humanistic/existential theories are truly unlike traditional theories of the past‚ subsequently‚ the emphasis is placed mainly on a person’s ability to take control of their life vs. allowing life circumstances

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