else can bring. Oscar Wilde Here’s to a long life and a merry one A quick death and an easy one A pretty girl and an honest one A cold beer and another one! Irish Saying The goal of life is living in agreement with nature. Zeno From Diogenes Laertius‚ Lives of Eminent Philosophers. Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about. Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere’s Fan‚ Act I. Where there is love there is life. Indira Gandhi To succeed in life‚ you need three things:
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Cameron Moon 3/11/2014 PHI 150 Socrates Paper The goal of this paper is to discern and construct the world views of Socrates through the various readings‚ lectures and videos that we have seen in class. Some of these sources include: Socrates by G. Rudebusch; excerpts from The Last Days of Socrates by Plato; and The Allegory of a Cave. Of the nine world views covered in class‚ I will delve into my interpretation of four of them as seen through the various sources that we have been exposed to
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THESIS STATEMENT: The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program helps in empowering the youth‚ the poor in particular‚ to rise above poverty through wellness and education. Poverty‚ as defined by dictionaries‚ is the state of being extremely poor or the lack of money to afford basic education‚ maintain health‚ and buy other basic necessities such as clothes‚ food‚ water‚ shelter‚ and electricity. However‚ poverty is much more than just being poor. It is a sickness that impacts everyone including the youth
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The Punic Wars The Punic Wars were a series of wars between Rome‚ the powerful empire‚ and Carthage‚ a quickly made and equally powerful superpower. In 264 BC‚ Rome and Carthage started the lengthy and devastating series of wars over who should have control over the strategic island of Sicily. Rome and Carthage were affected greatly because wars have their consequences‚ good or bad. A total of thirteen million people died over the course of these wars. The wars started with a single conflict‚ but
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Humankind would be a better place if we were all just citizens of the world. In Martha Nussbaum’s “Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism” she argues whether children should be taught in education to be patriotic or cosmopolitan. Nussbaum’s definition of cosmopolitanism is a person whose primary allegiance is to the community of human beings in the entire world. Nussbaum begins her argument by raising questions about education and how students ought to be taught that hunger in third world countries are
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The relationship that a teacher and student share is of trust‚ respect and devotion. Teachers influence their students by shaping their rational and moral virtues and hence‚ play an important role in molding the society as a whole. The education system of ancient India and Greece shared some common characteristics. In both cultures‚ teachers and their disciples conglomerated at specific places earmarked for educational purposes. This is where students gained both spiritual and material education
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Carlos J Vega Jr December 4‚ 2012 Final- Paper 3 English 093 7:00 Class Getting to the Origin of Bullying In Lives of the Eminent Philosopher‚ Diogenes Laërtius says‚ “Why not whip the teacher when the student misbehaves?” There has been recent speculation in the subject of whether to prosecute bullies when their actions result in teenage suicides. With an unbelievable rate of one suicide per 13.7 minutes‚ the community’s response is to find someone
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Classical Philosophy after Aristotle After Aristotle had completed his great speculative system‚ philosophy moves toward a new emphasis. Four groups of philosophers helped to shape this new direction‚ namely‚ the Epicureans‚ the Stoics‚ the Skeptics‚ and the Neoplatonist. They were‚ of course‚ greatly influenced by their predecessors‚ so we find that Epicurus relied upon Democritus for his atomic theory of nature‚ the Stoics made use of Heraclitus’ notion of a fiery substance permeating all things
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Exam 1 review sheet History 1100 ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS: Prehistory- first civilized people started migrating out of Africa‚ into the Near East‚ Europe and Asia. The migration set the period known as the Stone Age. The Stone Age is where people drastically made a change. They started using tools made out of stone‚ agriculture and domesticated animals. Paleolithic Age (old stone)- 200‚000 b.c.-10‚000 b.c. Neolithic Age (new stone) – 10‚000 b.c.-4‚000 b.c. PALEOLITHIC AGE: Hunter-gatherers-
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Logic Logic (from the Greek λογική‚ logike)[1] has two meanings: first‚ it describes the use of valid reasoning in some activity; second‚ it names the normative study of reasoning or a branch thereof.[2][3] In the latter sense‚ it features most prominently in the subjects of philosophy‚ mathematics‚ and computer science. Logic was studied in several ancient civilizations‚ including India‚[4] China‚[5] Persia and Greece. In the West‚ logic was established as a formal discipline by Aristotle‚ who
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