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    Kant and Descartes

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    Liz Johnson December 12‚ 2012 Kant and Descartes “Idealism is the assertion there are none but thinking thing beings. All other things‚ which we believe are perceived in intuitions‚ are nothing but presentations in the thinking things‚ to which no object external to them in fact corresponds. Everything we see is just a construction of the mind.” (Prolegomena). Idealism maintains that there are no objects in the world‚ only minds. According to idealism‚ the existence of outer objects is

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    Only God Can Judge Me

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    Only God can Judge me ! Do you judge people by the clothes they wear? Did you ever tried judging people by their look? Did anyone judge you? How would you feel getting judge? To me I never did judge people by their cover‚ I rather meet them in their inside than their outside because their inside is what tells you who they really are whether their nice‚ sweet‚ mean or shy. But people this day tend to judge a book by its cover. They judge the way they look not knowing what’s inside of them

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    Kant the Sublime

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    the Analytic of the Sublime‚ he explains how critical thought exists within an infinite amount of creativity with no principles but in search of them. Lyotard understands the Kantian sublime as a way to comply with the standards that critically analyze postmodernism using deconstruction. Kant differentiated the sublime between the vastness and greatness and the dynamic sublime. The vastness sublime is so great we can’t just use our senses like we normally do; it requires us to heighten our senses beyond

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    Emanuel Kant

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    Emanuel Kant Kant says in the first portion of the story is that the one thing in the world that is not clearly good is the "good will." Qualities of character (wit‚ intelligence‚ courage‚ etc.) or qualities of good fortune (wealth‚ status‚ good health) can be used to either good or bad purposes. By contrast‚ a good will is good by its nature‚ even if its efforts fail to bring about positive results. THE GOOD WILL AND DUTY The specific obligations of a good will are called "duties." There are

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    Philosophy Notes on Kant

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    Kant was part of enlightenment period Morality is entirely determined by what someone wills because a good will is the only thing that is good with out provocations. Every other character trait is only morally good once we qualify it as such. Kant morality is all about what someone wills and not about the end result or consequence is. Someone can be happy but for immoral reasons. Kant it is really the thought that counts. Motivation is everything. What does Bentham and Mills look at consequences

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    Faculty monitoring

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    from staff that a partial view was all that could ever be achieved. There was also uncertainty about who should deal with nonattendance – should it be the personal tutor‚ the year tutor‚ the unit tutor or the programme leader? - and many cases fell through the net. Difficulties were compounded by having students from different programmes mixed together and uncertainty at the beginning of the year about who was supposed to be in which class‚ especially in the first year when information comes relatively

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    Immanuel Kant

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    Osman 3 December 2012 Number 6 Immanuel Kant believed in utilitarianism‚ which is the moral philosophy that says we should act in such ways as to make the greatest number of people happy as possible. This is why he introduced the categorical imperative. As a moral law‚ it is a command that is unqualified and not dependent on any conditions or qualifications. In short‚ it tells us to act in such a way that we would want everyone else to act the same way. In the circumstance where I am considering

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    Can one be moral and not believe in God? PHI 103 September 26‚ 2011 The argument set forth is best understood by the first line given by Hamlet in Act 3‚ Scene 1 in this 1600 play‚ “Hamlet‚” written by William Shakespeare (1600). “To be‚ or not to be‚ that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune‚ Or to take arms against a sea of troubles‚ And by opposing end them?...” Believing in a spiritual entity or a supernatural

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    Can we Trust the Gospels?

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    Roberts‚ Mark D. Can We Trust the Gospels? Investigating the Reliability of Matthew‚ Mark‚ Luke‚ and John: Crossway Books 2007. Pp.202 Taking exception to the words of Christ could only be in blatant disagreement with Jesus the Christ himself‚ a spirit of anti-Christ. Is this an over statement as to the importance of the words of Christ? The answer to this question is found in how you respond to another question: How can the words of Jesus ever be down played as anything

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    the reason we go away

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    occur everywhere in life especially in mathematics. A pattern can be defined as any sequence of numbers that may be modeled by a mathematical function. A sequence is an ordered list of numbers such as 1‚ 2‚ 3‚ 4. A pattern can be found in a sequence‚ but a sequence doesn’t always necessarily have a pattern. For some patterns‚ you can even find a rule that fits them. There are two types of rules: recursive and explicit‚ and both rules can be used to find the next term in a pattern. The recursive rule

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