Philosophy 1. How are Plato’s and Descartes’ views of the soul/self similar? Both Plato and Descartes believe that the soul/self is best (or only) to think and learn separate from the body and its faculties. According to Plato‚ “the soul reasons best without bodily senses.” Plato claims that sight‚ hearing‚ pain‚ and pleasure are a distraction to the soul in its search for reality‚ and that true knowledge can only be achieved with pure thought alone. “The body confuses the soul and prevents
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chapter 2 pg.14-25 Socrates: The First Moralist Socrates (c.470-399 B.C) he was 70 years old when he died‚ his father was Sophroniscus‚ a sculptor‚ his mother Phaenarete‚ was a midwife. Socrates was likely a stonemason and a sculptor before turning to philosophy. He was a soldier during the Peloponnesian War. He has walked barefoot across ice‚ meditated standing up for thirty-six hours. He had the ability to ignore physical discomfort in order to achieve some greater mental or spiritual objective.The oracle
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Ans-1) Communication theorist and philosopher Marshall McLuhan had once said: “We are not sure who discovered the water‚ but we are pretty sure it wasn’t a fish”. The fish‚ as we know‚ is always immersed in water and has no anti-environment to help it judge the element it lives in. It thus becomes the last to discover water. The case of the fish is metaphorical and can be applied in the context of contemporary media landscape where ideas of ideology and hegemony act as filters in shaping news. Human
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“Betta Fish are also called Siamese Fighting Fish. The name Betta is pronounced as the Greek letter beta‚ and because of this‚ the name is often misspelled in American English‚ with one t instead of two.”1 In the tank it is most important for you not to put to of the male betta fish in the same tank or else they will fight until one dies. As the temperatures of the water changes so will the fishes’ moods and actions and an example of the water changes is that as the temperature drops in the tank
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the ecosystem and it occurs when fishing activities reduce fish stocks below an acceptable level. Overfishing can occur in any body of water from a pond to an ocean. Overfishing is also a non-sustainable use of oceans. The populations of many commercial fish species are severely depleted because of overfishing. Overfishing originated after World War II‚ which lead to expanding markets‚ newer technologies‚ and increased accuracy in finding fish (The Nature Conservancy‚ 2010). I think overfishing originated
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Philosophy 101 Final Paper: Answer to five Questions on Castell and Borchert’s Introduction to Modern Philosophy‚ 4th ed. (Pearson-Macmillan‚ 1983). Question #1: Why does Hume think that the “design” in nature cannot prove God’s existence? Answer: One of the most common reasons why people say they believe in God is that the universe seems to have been intentionally designed. Hume observes that while we may perceive two events that seem to occur in conjunction‚ there is no way for us to
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Rates of Fish? Google the web site www.biologycorner.com/ and in the upper left corner search for “goldfish lab”. Select the fish temperature lab. Use the simulator to gather data. Contact 4 classmates and get their data. (or run the simulation 5 times yourself) Complete the table. Complete a graph using the average respiration rate vs time. Answer the questions. ** no additional report is needed** Introduction: In this lab you will slowly change the water temperature of a fish and determine
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been dumping their lionfish from their home aquarium into the Atlantic Ocean. Expert believe that this is how the Indo-Pacific Lionfish landed along the southeast coast of the U.S.‚ Gulf of Mexico‚ and the Caribbean. Scientists had study that the lion fish is surviving on the southeast cost‚ due to that fact that they are carnivores and feed on smaller
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storytelling. Parents tell their children stories‚ leaders tell their followers stories‚ and it has always just been accepted as a part of life. The question I often ask myself is why are these story’s told‚ why not just tell the truth? The (2003) movie Big Fish directed by Tim Burton‚ helped me put reason behind the mythological story telling that has always been. In my eyes the film takes a different approach to myth than most would consider; which is the significance of myth to the individual. Too often
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Small-scale fish farming in Bangladesh Introduction For many people in Bangladesh small-scale fish farming is an important opportunity to generate income and is a significant nutritional source providing protein-rich food all year round. It comprises of a range of options that can be adapted to suit the needs and capacity of people living in rural Bangladesh. The two approaches commonly implemented on a small scale are: • Local pond fish farming • Open water fish farming in lakes
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