Student Name: James Hunter Student ID: l25403055 Class Name: PHIL 201 Date: November 25‚ 2013 In Module/Week 5’s Reading & Study folder there are 3 short readings. Your assignment is to read them and then write an essay with a minimum of 600 words (in MLA‚ APA‚ or Turabian format) addressing some of the following questions. You must address the first question‚ but then you are free to consider any of the others. While you are free to quote from sources‚ quotations will not count towards the
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AP Euro. – POV Quiz Women in Science DBQ Prompt: Analyze and discuss attitudes and reactions toward the participation of women in the sciences during the 17th and 18th centuries. Historical background: While rarely acknowledged‚ women actively participated in scientific research in chemistry‚ astronomy‚ biology‚ botany‚ physics‚ and medicine. Although most European universities and academies of science excluded women entirely‚ in Italy a few women held professorships in science and mathematics
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In 1710 German philosopher Gottfried Leibniz coined the phrase theodicy in his work titled Theodicy: Essays on the Goodness of God‚ the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil. The meaning of theodicy in its most common form‚ attempts to answer the question why a good God permits the manifestation of evil. Based on the issues that we face today in the world‚ it is fair to say that Gottfried Leibniz was far ahead of his time in his philosophy. More than I have ever experienced in my lifetime people
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The thoughts of God that are presented by Leibniz and Spinoza are finished total inverses in idea. Spinozas god does not take after routine terminology for god as it has none of the attributes of the customary‚ individual god. Leibniz idea of god is a more relatable idea of a divine being that has a limit for thought‚ and has a request and motivation to the moves that it makes. Leibniz’s God is a humanized being that has the limit for thought and activity keeping in mind the end goal to settle on
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Erik Irre Modern Philosophy December 16‚ 1999 Paper 1‚ Section 2 If these great thinkers (Descartes‚ Spinoza‚ and Leibniz) were to discuss instead the soul’s connection to the body‚ what might each say (both on his own behalf and in response to the other)? Would they find any places where they might agree? If not‚ why not? (These are‚ after all‚ smart guys!) Though this sort of meeting would strike me as a debate with as furiously disparate and uncompromising ideals as one would find
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sciences from an early age‚ and she was especially interested in astronomy. She received even more special training in astronomy from Christoph Arnold who lived in the neighboring town. Maria Winkelmann achieved her nobility after marrying Gottfried Kirch‚ a prominent German astronomer‚ and used its benefits towards her advantage. In 1710‚ Maria Winkelmann petitioned the Academy of
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is an example of a contemporary building while Dresden Opera House‚ a historical building was built by Gottfried Semper. I will also describe and compare their theories on ornament in architecture. Dresden Opera House‚ also commonly referred to as Semperoper due to its outstanding beauty‚ is one of the most famous buildings in Dresden‚ Germany that was built in 1838-41 by architect Gottfried Semper. It is strategically located in Dresden‚ Germany at Theaterplatz specifically at the banks of
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Both Locke and Leibniz agree that experience is essential in developing understanding‚ though they differ in their assessment of how experience shapes an individual. Their difference in views is best explained in the marble example Leibniz provides in his critique of Locke. While Locke holds that a person is born with a sort of blank slate in which the senses help acquire truths and “furnish the yet empty cabinet” (pg. 321‚ 15.) that is the mind‚ Leibniz believes that there is some innate
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authors Gottfried von Strassburg and Marie de France‚ there are some subtle differences. With Marie de France’s representations of love‚ the characters who remain faithful and selfless in their passion of love are rewarded‚ whereas those who are selfish lovers are punished. Marie de France demonstrates that an affair is justified when one is within a loveless relationship based on social arrangement. An affair based on passion and equality is justified when within a loveless marriage. Gottfried von Strassburg
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Some philosophers‚ such as Leibniz and Samuel Clarke‚ hold that God’s nature entails that‚ if God chooses to create anything at all‚ it must be the best. On the other hand‚ Robert Adams argue contrary to this view and holds that God’s nature does not entail that God must create the best‚ but instead‚ it was a choice God made. Despite the strength and appeal to traditional Judeo-Christian beliefs of Adam’s view‚ I am to argue that God’s nature does indeed entail that He must create the best if He
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