The Golden Notebook By Doris Lessing Plot Summary: "Knowing was an ’illumination. ’ During the last weeks of craziness and timelessness I ’ve had these moments of ’knowing ’ one after the other‚ yet there is no way of putting this sort of knowledge into words. Yet‚ these moments have been so powerful‚ like the rapid illuminations of a dream that remain with one waking‚ that what I have learned will be part of how I experience life until I die
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Leibniz‚ Plantinga and Hick try to answer the question of the existence of evil in the world with their differing yet equally intellectual theodicy’s. Leibniz attacks the problem of evil with the concept of our world being the best possible world that God could create. Plantinga explains the hardships in the world with a free will theodicy‚ in which the world exists in its manner due to the free will of humanity. I argue that while each theodicy brings up a pertinent view to assess the issue‚ none
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Second Mid Term Essay Johann Gottfried von Herder wrote much about nationalism. John Hobson wrote of imperialism‚ and Charles Darwin of natural selection and “survival of the fittest.” First I will discuss nationalism from Herder’s perspective. Second‚ I will discuss imperialism from Hobson’s perspective. Then Hobson writes about how nationalism leads to imperialism. Last‚ I will discuss the assumption that “nineteenth-century European societies were engaged in a struggle for existence among themselves
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Reflections on the Philosophy of the History of Mankind “Reflections on the Philosophy of the History of Mankind” was written by Johann Gottfried Herder. He starts of by stating the simple fact that no two things are alike. Whether he is talking about leaves off the same tree‚ or humans‚ everything is slightly different in appearance. Although items may closely resemble each other‚ they have characteristics that make them different in one way or another. Herder goes on to argue no person is the
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Nebula4.3‚ September 2007 In Search of a Remedial Philosophy: A Consecutive Study of Hafez and Goethe. By Ismail Baroudy Abstract Despite a sharp gap historically segregating Hafez and Goethe from each other‚ the researcher justifiably finds them to merit sharing common spiritual‚ social‚ cultural and literary characteristics. This advocacy mainly stems from the fact that the former (Hafez) exercised an unfathomable strand of multidimensional impact on the latter (Goethe). Admittedly‚ based on findings
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On the other hand‚ although the rationalists generally attempt to use deduction and reduce the idea of human understanding to a basic fundamental principle‚ in Leibniz case what you end up with are complex ideas beyond our understanding that cannot be explained by sensation or any external source and therefore must be innate. As Leibniz states‚ “…primitive ideas are those whose possibility is indemonstrable‚ and which are in truth nothing else than the attributes of God (Kramnick 189).” Both of
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History of Calculus The history of calculus falls into several distinct time periods‚ most notably the ancient‚ medieval‚ and modern periods. The ancient period introduced some of the ideas of integral calculus‚ but does not seem to have developed these ideas in a rigorous or systematic way. Calculating volumes and areas‚ the basic function of integral calculus‚ can be traced back to the Egyptian Moscow papyrus (c. 1800 BC)‚ in which an Egyptian successfully calculated the volume of a pyramidal
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with this much intelligence. She simply neglected that statement and continued her amazing work‚ her position as a scientist came to an end with her latest work‚ “The Institutions of Physics‚” a book about German mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Leibniz. In 1666‚ Marie Meurdrac published book “Chemistry Simplified for Women”. The book attempts to prove that a woman’s knowledge was not less than a man’s. Meurdrac’s purpose of the book was to convince women to present their knowledge against men
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Sir Isaac Newton I am Sir Isaac Newton. I am a mathematician and physicist‚ and one of the foremost scientific intellects of all time. I was born at Woolsthorpe‚ near Grantham in Lincolnshire‚ in 1642. I entered Cambridge University in 1661; then was elected at Fellow of Trinity College in 1667‚ then Lucasian Professor of Mathematics in 1669. I remained at the university‚ lecturing in most years‚ until 1696. Of these Cambridge years‚ in which I was at the height of my creative power‚ I singled out
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2.2.5 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Liebniz adds some clarification to Descartes argument in an attempt to strengthen it‚ he argue that’s Descartes has not asserted how coherent the idea of a “perfect being” is‚ Leibniz argues that unless this point is demonstrated then overall argument fails. In order to prevent this Leibniz attempts to analyze what perfection actually means‚ he concludes that this is an impossible task and concludes that it’s impossible to demonstrate all perfections are incompatible
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