Cognitive Dissonance -This occurs when there is a difference between people’s stated attitudes and their behaviour. It specifically refers to our emotional discomfort resulting from this discrepancy. -This happens all the time! I might dislike someone but be polite to their faces- is that bad? -Sometimes the situational factors are more influential than our attitudes Evaluation of the tricomponent theory -A well known study into thse issues of whether our stated attitudes are consistent with
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Summary of the Ontological Argument The Ontological Argument of St. Anselm is an a priori argument; it is formulated through reason alone‚ rather than experience. This argument does not rely on external evidence or sense experience. It is deductive (universal to particular) as it draws from its argument purely from a set of premises. In the 11th century‚ St. Anselm presented his argument for the existence of God in his published work‚ the Proslogion. His work was based on 4 premises which led
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Exam #1 Chapter 1-Historical Studies: Some Issues -historiography‚ great-person theory‚ historical development approach (zeitgeist) -presentism vs. historicism‚ internists (old)‚ historians (new) -1960s history of psychology -rationalists‚ empiricists‚ epistemology‚ nativism‚ mechanism‚ vitalism‚ active mind‚ passive mind‚ materialists‚ idealists‚ monist -dualism: interactionism‚ Emergentism‚ Epiphenominism‚ psychophysical parallelism‚ double aspectism -determinism: physical‚ psychical
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Past and Future Debates Felicia McGhee Professor Christina Fusch Phil 201 AIU Online April 19‚ 2014 Past and Future Debate Today we are wondering how it would be to debate with the great Socrates and see how it would turn out. Socrates- Felicia what is the definition determinism mean to you? Felicia – Determinism is of different occurrence of nature which take place of any accordance within the natural laws of the world. I believe that determinism
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Immanuel Kant and Thomas Aquinas were two great philosophers who developed arguments for the existence of God and taught ways of critically assessing the natural world. They both believed that we all are born the same and learn through experience. You must first experience something in order to gain knowledge by experiencing it first. This meant that people could not be certain about something until they “saw” it first. They both believed in “free will” and that everyone could make their own choices
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If God is perfectly good and the source of all that is‚ how is there room for error or falsehood? Descartes attempts to answer this question in Meditation IV: On Truth and Falsity. “If I’ve gotten everything in me from God and He hasn’t given me the ability to make errors‚ it doesn’t seem possible for me ever to error. (Descartes‚ Meditation IV: On Truth and Falsity).” The framework of his arguments center on the Great Chain of Being‚ in which God’s perfect goodness is relative to His perfect being
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Friendship is a word with many meanings. What does friendship mean to you? Friendship always played an important role for people It is obvious because people are social beings and they need to communicate. However we all think differently and it is significant how people distinguish friendship from other relationships. A question arises : what can friendship mean? What does it mean for me in particularly? It is generally believed that friendships are relationships between people who share
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I think what she’s saying in these lines is that society can provide a solitude of space‚ that in the sea of humanity‚ you can find the fact you can get lost in the crowd. to be alone amongst the many. Then there is the solitude of death‚ which is a removal from society entirely and the perpetual solitude of the grave...but such a state may lack awareness. So she says that all these types of solitude‚ when compared with that profounder site‚ "That polar privacy"‚ which is "A
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Also‚ people contain morals and goodness which tend to be valued. Not to mention‚ moral laws are objective realities and if this is true than physicalism would be false because both those things are non physical. Likewise‚ a dualist could argue that‚ yes the soul cannot be weighed or seen however‚ neither can numbers or values and they still exist. Dualist tend to be believers in religions and faiths that promise immortality of the soul and tend to not fear death because there is so much to look
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