“Groundwork for the Metaphysic of Morals” a rational being is someone with‚ “a will—which is the ability to act according to the thought of laws‚ i.e. to act on principle” (Kant‚ Chapter 2‚ pg. 19). Rational beings nature marks them out as ends in themselves. Another important term that Kant uses is good will. Good will is a will that acts not from inclination but from duty; not merely in accord with duty but from duty. A very important quote out of‚ “Groundwork for the Metaphysic of Morals” Kant begins
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Metaphysics The “Basic” Argument for Theological Fatalism Fatalism Fatalism is the view that everything that happens in entirely unavoidable. Since everything that happens is unavoidable‚ none of our actions are genuinely up to us and we powerless to do anything other than what we actually do. Here is Richard Taylor on what the fatalist believes [“Fate” from Metaphysics‚ 4th Ed (Pearson‚ 1991)]: “A fatalist is someone who believes that whatever happens is and always was unavoidable.
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Quine’s “Epistemology Naturalized” has many admirers but few adherents. Numerous critics of Quine’s essay treat Quine’s proposal as abandoning normative epistemology. The general belief is that Quine is too extreme his attempt to naturalize epistemology. Most believe that he advocated for the replacement of epistemology with psychology. The major objection to Quine’s proposal for the naturalization of epistemology is that it dismisses normative questions asked by traditional epistemology. A famous
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Is it better to marry for love or logic? In history‚ thousands of years ago‚ the idea of marrying for love was not existent. Women did not dream of falling in love with a man and having their love professed to them. The engagement ring did not even exist‚ love was not a priority to anyone. Only recently has the idea of marrying for love emerged‚ women want a spark; they want to believe that someone will swoop them off their feet and make them feel like the princess they are. Although many believe
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EPISTEMOLOGY Epistemology is the study of the grounds of knowledge. (Becvar‚2013) It asks the question “what knowledge is and how it can be acquired”. (http://carm.org/dictionary-epistemology) How can anything be really known? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemology) The word originates from the greek: episteme = knowledge and logos = study - i.e. it is the study of knowledge. (http://eddiechauncy.blogspot.com/2012/01/what-are-ontology-and-epistemology_12.html) Your ’epistemology
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Kant starts‚ Groundings for the Metaphysics of Morals‚ by explaining the difference between things that are good‚ and things that are good only with qualification. When it comes to the first type of good there is only one thing that counts‚ good will. Good will is by itself the only thing in the universe that is unconditionally good‚ and incorruptible. Everything else that we perceive as good‚ is not really good on its own and is equally capable of being bad. Wit‚ intelligence‚ and talent are
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Education and‚ the Role of Philosophy In The Journey through American Education “Curriculum as a field of study has been characterized as elusive‚ fragmentary and confusing” (Ornstein and Hunkins‚ 2009‚ p. 1). According to Wikipedia‚ education is any act or experience that has a formative effect on the mind‚ character‚ or physical ability of an individual and is the process by which society deliberately transmits its accumulated knowledge‚ skills and values from one generation to another
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The Flea 1. What has been the past relationship of the speaker and the woman? What has she denied him? How has she habitually “kill[ed]” him? What is his objective in the poem? 2. In many ways this poem is like a miniature play: it has two characters‚ dramatic conflict‚ dialogue (though we only hear one speaker)‚ and stage action. The action is embedded in the dialogue. What happens preceding the first line of the poem? What happens between the first and second stanzas? Between the second
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------------------------------------------------- Biophysics From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Photosynthetic reaction center. Biophysics is an interdisciplinary science that uses the methods of‚ and theories from physics to study biological systems.[1] Biophysics spans alllevels of biological organization‚ from the molecular scale to whole organisms and ecosystems. Biophysical research shares significant overlap withbiochemistry‚ nanotechnology‚ bioengineering‚ agrophysics‚ and systems biology
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ABSTARCT Fuzzy logic has rapidly become one of the most successful of today’s technologies for developing sophisticated control systems. The reason for which is very simple. Fuzzy logic addresses such applications perfectly as it resembles human decision making with an ability to generate precise solutions from certain or approximate information. While other approaches require accurate equations to model real-world behaviors‚ fuzzy design can accommodate the ambiguities of real-world in human language
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