Secular humanists view suffering as a part of everyday world. An atheist‚ Nietsche‚ believes that suffering is a result to make life more productive does”. However other humanists (such as Richard Dawkins) argue that suffering has no reason nor ultimate purpose in life “reason in it”. Majority of secular humanists argue that suffering is just a random event that everyone experiences and there is no real purpose for suffering. There are similarities when it comes to the secular humanist and Catholic
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Explain Plato’s concept of the forms and the particular importance of the form of good. (25) Plato originally thought of the forms because of the concept of beauty. Although we see objects and think that they are beautiful‚ we never ‘beauty’. Also many different things can be beautiful‚ but in different ways but they all still have one thing in common‚ beauty. This leads to Plato concluding that there must be something which is ‘beauty’ that all of these things get it from. This idea of a universal
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de Kragt‚ J. C. (1986). Organizing groups for collective action. American Political Science Review‚ 80‚ 1171 – 1185. Dawes‚ R. M.‚ & Thaler‚ R. (1988). Cooperation. Journal of Economic Perspectives‚ 2‚ 187 – 197. Dawkins‚ R. (1976). The selfish gene. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Dawkins‚ R. (1989). The selfish gene (2nd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Eibl-Eibesfeldt‚ I. (1982). Warfare‚ man’s indoctrinability and group selection. Journal of Comparative Ethnology‚ 60‚ 177 – 198. Falk‚ A
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SOCIOLOGY PROJECTS – Semester 2 / 2004-2005 Here is a list of project ideas that you may select from to satisfy your project requirements. Project Path students must do three different types of projects during the semester (e.g.‚ a poster‚ a piece of artwork‚ and a book report). This list is not meant to limit you. If you have an original idea‚ or if one of these ideas gives you another idea‚ let me know and we will discuss it! SERVICE LEARNING: You may develop a service learning project
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data mining: architecture and challenges ’‚ WEBKDD ’2000 Workshop on web Mining for E-commerce -Challenges and Opportunities. Barboza.D（2011)‚ ’China Investigates Pricing by 2 Broadband Companies ’ The New York Times‚ 10 November 10‚ 2011‚p. B4 Dawkins‚ P.M Egan‚ J. (2011) Relationship Marketing: Exploring relational strategies in marketing. 4th edn. Gummesson‚ E. (1999) Total Relationship Marketing: Relationship Marketing Management from 4Ps to 30Rs‚ Oxford: Butterworth Heinemann Gorth‚ R Miguéis
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The Flying Spaghetti Monster (also known as the Spaghedeity) is the deity of a parody religion[1] called The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and its system of beliefs‚ "Pastafarianism".[2] The religion was founded in 2005 by Bobby Henderson to protest the decision by the Kansas State Board of Education to require the teaching of intelligent design as an alternative to biological evolution. In an open letter sent to the education board‚ Henderson professes belief in a supernatural creator
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Resurrection is a Christian‚ materialist view that the body rises after death in a physical form‚ with the main evidence of this being the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Resurrection is central to the Christian faith as it marks the start of Christianity from the Jewish scriptures. There are many differing views about the plausibility of resurrection. Some may believe that resurrection is only based on theories‚ therefore not proved beyond doubt‚ and that these theories don’t make sense. Hard materialists
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Sociology of Religion / Sociology 3040-001 Monday‚ Wednesday‚ Friday‚ 2:00 pm to 2:50 pm. Fall Semester‚ 2007‚ University of Utah Dr. Frank J. Page Office Hours: 9:00 am till noon. Tuesday and Thursday‚ or by appointment. Office Phone: (801) 531-3075 Home Phone: (801) 278-6413 Email: frank.page@soc.utah.edu I. Goals: The primary goal of this class is to afford students a historical‚ comparative‚ and critical understanding of religious institutions and practices that will
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Here I would like to introduce the concept of the "Extended Phenotype"‚ a beautiful concept developed by Richard Dawkins. A phenotype is an observable trait of an organism. So his red hair‚ your height‚ or her freckles are all examples of a phenotype. But not only are gene characteristics a phonotype but incidentally the environment we live in. Just as much as a bee
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Evaluate the claim that there can be no disembodied existence after death. Death is the end of the functions of one’s body‚ but is death the end? Dualists‚ who are those that believe the body and soul are separate entities‚ believe that there is life after death‚ however materialists and monists‚ those who believe human beings are made up of one entity: the body‚ believe that death is the cessation of life. Moreover‚ life after death may be disembodied (separate from the body) as Plato argued
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