Introduction /Overview In this essay the challenge is to shown the relevance of philosophy to 21st century manufacturing. As philosophy is not a new concept there is a wide and defervesce range of ideas (on everything that existed and does not yet exist). The people who study philosophy and deal with such matters must have at one stage put forward some thoughts on manufacturing and even engineering in general. Philosophy comes from the Greek for "love of wisdom‚" giving us two important starting
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As previously stated‚ Descartes is a rationalist and idealist. Descartes main concepts are that knowledge comes from the mind and not the senses‚ certainty does exist‚ and that there is indeed a god. Rationalists‚ such as Plato and Descartes‚ believe that knowledge comes from using reason‚ thinking‚ understanding‚ and the power of the mind (Descartes‚ Epistemology Lecture Notes). Idealists believe that
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The New Science * Beginning to see the appearance of the individual of the self. New methods were revealing a completely secular universe to this new man and showing him how he could satisfy his new desires. * Science and scientific method * Empirical and deductive * Emphasis on empirical or deductive methods lead to radically different metaphysical and epistemological (what we can know/how we know that we know) theories and to different conceptions of the implications of scientific
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both seventeenth century philosophers‚ are often seen as two of the first early modern philosophers. Both Descartes and Locke attempt to find answers to the same questions in metaphysics and epistemology; among these: What is knowledge? Is there certainty in knowledge? What roles do the mind and body play in the acquisition of knowledge? Descartes and Locke do not provide the same answers to these questions. In this paper the similarities and differences between the philosophies of Descartes and Locke
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example‚ Adolf Hitler attracted his supporters through his certainty and lack of debate. He connected with his audiences through his dominant presence and style of expressing his beliefs‚ convincing and almost hypnotizing them to believe in him due to his poise. On the other hand‚ a student who raises his or her in class to answer a question would not be considered charismatic. The student simply had the knowledge to answer the question with certainty‚ allowing the student to appear confident. The student
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differentiating skepticism from doubt‚ then he goes through the different steps of doubt‚ and concludes with the idea of the cogito. His philosophy on the nature of human knowledge emphasizes how there is only one thing that people know for certain‚ and that knowledge comes from people thinking. One of Descartes biggest critics was David Hume. Hume grew up in Edinburgh and‚ like Descartes‚ was regarded
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that someone has been chosen by lot to be the first to present his views‚ and I am he so chosen. I would start by presenting the panel with a problem: A young man‚ brought up in a religious family‚ studies a science‚ and as a result he comes to doubt – and perhaps later to disbelieve in – his father’s God. Now‚ this is not an isolated example; it happens time and time again. Although I have no statistics on this‚ I believe that many scientists – in fact‚ I
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you can doubt anything that exists because it’s either a misconception or seen as an illusion. He suggests that if he is able to find in each one some reason to doubt‚ that it will suffice to justify rejecting it as a whole. The main reason for Descartes’
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want to change their minds. He further states that “…the instinctive dislike of an undecided state of mind‚ exaggerated into a vague dread of doubt‚ makes men cling spasmodically to the views they already hold” (10). Belief gives a feeling of satisfaction and peace‚ whereas doubt brings uncertainty and unease. People do not like the feeling of being in doubt‚ so they adhere passionately to what
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persecution‚ famine‚ danger and God appears silent‚ yet they still endured. Jesus himself‚ when dying on the cross experienced the silence of God. I believe that although God may seem silent he never really is and to understand his silence and our doubt we need to better understand faith. It is that silence that makes Faith so challenging‚ that is why we must start with Faith and work our way up. Although‚ according to Webster’s Dictionary the definition of faith is: confident belief in the truth
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