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    or that perhaps nobody else got a payrise either and maybe you will get one next year (healthy). C might be an increased level of anxiety at work‚ or alternatively normal level/no anxiety as a result of your belief about A. The Stoic philosopher Epictetus wrote ’people are disturbed not by things but by the views they take of them’. This illustrates the cognitive model of emotional disturbance very well. But what exactly are unhealthy or irrational beliefs as opposed to healthy or rational beliefs

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    DOLOR‚ Anna Graciella I. September 5‚ 2012 BSPT 1 B-2 PHILO-19 Sir. Dino Cabrera Summary of Chapter 2 “THE GREEK PHILOSOPHY: SOCRATES‚ PLATO AND ARISTOTLE” There are many different philosophers who appear during the fifth century one of this were the Sophist came from the greek word sophisma and sphizo meaning “I am wise”‚ their philosophy influenced Greece that led to democracy. The Sophist

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    WHY IS DEATH BAD? 217 I am an exile from some country‚ where I have left my widowed mother. Though I am deeply concerned about her‚ I very seldom get news. I have known for some time that she is fatally ill‚ and cannot live long. I am now told something new. My mother’s illness has become very painful‚ in a way that drugs cannot relieve. For the next few months‚ before she dies‚ she faces a terrible ordeal. That she will soon die I already knew. But I am deeply distressed to learn of the suffering

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    Philosophy Essay The philosopher that spoke to me the most was Nietzsche. I agreed with him on multiple points such as alcohol and religion being crutches that give us a false sense of confidence and hope. I also agreed with Nietzsche in that in order for one to be successful‚ they have to endure some sort of hardship or failure. Coming up with the saying‚ “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” is the main reason I connected with Nietzsche seeing as how that is a saying I like to live by

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    towns so they can have an advantage of attacking the victim in a familiar place? All of these unanswered question I’m hoping will have answers by the end of this course. I also want to learn all the different philosophers. For example John Locke‚ Epicurus ‚ Plato‚ Aristotle ‚ and Confucius. I Have learned about them but it was never a detailed course . My favorite philosopher is freud.Thats what I like about psychology there are no wrong answers. What is one thing I want you to know about me? I

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    "Too often we… enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought‚ "quoted by the well-known John. F. Kennedy is an expression that I can agree with because people enjoy the comfort of not facing reality. Iyanla Vanzant is a world renowned life coach who has built her success by‚ helping individuals face their reality so that they can have more full-filling lives. Creative thinking‚ communication skills‚ being attentive‚ analytical and open-minded are all key factors to Iyanla’s success

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    conclusion is inescapable. There theodicies that try to offer an explanation for the problem of evil such as the theodicy of St. Augustine and Irenaeus. There are two versions of the problem of evil - Logical evil Evidential. Logical is attributed to Epicurus‚ he says that if it does not logically flow and that it has the conclusion God cannot exist with‚ or If he did he would want to prevent all evil – which then rules out the classical theism that God is all powerful. The evidential version of the problem

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    friendship. In our days we assist very often at negative forms of friendship manifestation‚ from the most exteriorized ways to the most expressed in vulgarly language. Friendship is a human characteristic‚ fact visible even by Aristotle (even before Epicurus)‚ who presumed that “nobody can live without friends‚ even if he/she has all the fortunes in the whole world.” Friendship is also a manifestation form of self knowledge‚ a capacity of the human being to refer him self on others. Of course‚ the human

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    the teaching of Epicurus‚ and were not of the belief of any kind of divine plan‚ and thereby no existence of the Gods because of the observable science and logical inferences following those observations. Instead of relying on superstition or myth‚ the writers of Epicurean Doctrine were essentially the first scientists of the civilized world. If this school didn’t believe in Gods than all the beliefs of life after death are not feasible. Instead‚ Lucretius‚ a follower of Epicurus‚ in his poem On

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    ideas together with absorbing one’s opinions (Sinclair‚ 2001). ‘We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak’ – to communicate effectively‚ we should put effort into listening to and thus understanding each other (Epictetus). However‚ an effective communication is exactly what is lacking between different generations‚ which is one of the major problems in a workplace. First of all‚ generations do not understand one another well probably due to each’s biases against

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