Philosophies of Sophie’s World Sophie’s World Berkeley Signature Edition/March 1996 The Garden of Eden-pg 2 Sophie is introduced to two questions she has not really thought about‚ but is very important questions to philosophers. She realizes that these questions are really important but most people take these questions for granted. When we are little children‚ we are easily amazed by many things that older people see as bland since they are used to it. Philosophers are like children that
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The History of Philosophy A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y and Z (A) Abelard‚ Peter: One of the most heated debates that troubled the church in the Middle Ages was the question of universals. This question goes back as far as Plato’s Forms. It has to do with the relationship between the abstract and general concepts that we have in our minds (what is the relationship between Chair with a capitol “C” and chair with a small “c”?). And from this‚ two radical viewpoints emerged
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Alfarabi and Aristotle: The Four Causes and The Four Stages of The Doctrine of The Intelligence Alfarabi was raised as a young boy in Baghdad. His early life was spent studying the art of linguistics‚ philosophy‚ and logic. His teachers were Syrian Christians experts in Greek philosophy. He studied Aristotle and Plato in detail‚ and it became evident in his later writings that they were a strong influence on him. He became quite a prolific writer‚ and he wrote more than 100 works‚ many of which
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Sophie’s World is a story focused around the subject of philosophy‚ as told from a child’s perspective. Sophie Amundsen is a fourteen-year-old girl living in Norway in 1990. She lives with her cat Sherekan‚ her goldfish‚ a tortoise‚ two budgerigars and her mother. Her father is a captain of an oil tanker‚ and is away for most of the year. One day Sophie is walking home from school with her friend Johanna. They have been discussing the human brain. Johanna thinks that people are robots; Sophie on
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The opening of Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura immediately immerses the reader into a fantastical world ruled by Venus. Creation and generation‚ nature and nurture‚ all lie within her realm. While perhaps foreign to modern audiences‚ such a world would have been familiar to Lucretius’ original Roman audience. In the next few lines‚ however‚ this familiar world experiences upheaval. Venus is usurped as Man becomes the protagonist. More specifically‚ Epicurus emerges as the champion of humanity. As the
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Aristotle‚ being the first historian of philosophy‚ categorized his predecessors according to how they’ve answered the central questions of the human mind – the question of the first principle of all things. It is otherwise known as the Four Causes. He defined science as knowledge through causes. This doctrine of causes is scattered in different Aristotelian treatises but have its highlight in his book Metaphysics. This principle of causality is an essential part of Aristotelian thought. In his
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WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY Asking questions - Common hobbies of a philosopher -e.g.‚ “Who am I?”‚ “Why are we here?” * Philosophy pursues the Faculty of Wonder. * opens someone’s mind * leads us to more important questions * Philosophy – code of questions * Love of wisdom * Moth in life * Analyzing the different facts of life * Self examination * Study of nature * Three concepts of Philosophy – acc. To Bonifacio 1. Intellectual
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Physics (from Ancient Greek: φυσική (ἐπιστήμη) phusikḗ (epistḗmē) “knowledge of nature”‚ from φύσις phúsis "nature"[1][2][3]) is the natural science that involves the study of matter[4] and its motion through space and time‚ along with related concepts such as energy and force.[5] More broadly‚ it is the general analysis of nature‚ conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.[a][6][7] Physics is one of the oldest academic disciplines‚ perhaps the oldest through its inclusion of astronomy
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Notes on the history of the atom In 1897 the British physicist Joseph John (J. J.) Thomson (1856–1940) discovered the electron in a series of experiments designed to study the nature of electric discharge in a high-vacuum cathode-ray tube‚ an area being investigated by numerous scientists at the time. Thomson interpreted the deflection of the rays by electrically charged plates and magnets as evidence of &quotbodies much smaller than atoms&quot that he calculated as having a very large value
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another. Included in this is the way we think and learn. While some may be able to take directions easily‚ and learn quickly‚ others may not be able to do the same. Educational psychologists help deal with this issue‚ and have been since the times of Democritus. Philosophers noticed learning differences and in-capabilities in some more than others. This is the job of educational psychologists today. According to Wikipedia‚ the definition of educational psychology is‚ “the study of how humans learn in
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