following strategy to observe online communication and classroom activity amongst scholar’s cultural diversity‚ geographical location and maturity both are the most important primary causal dynamics. Furthermore‚ the substantial data gathered by Nagel et al (2009) in their research describe the potential consequences of success and failures were documented. Therefore‚ a successful completion of a online module they concluded the following: foremost‚ modules that had discussion forums allows a scholarly
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Death is an evil if there is no limit to the amount of life it is good to experience. Nagel builds a case for the common view that death is an evil‚ however it is important to note his argument is conditional on the question of wether there is a point at which life is no longer good to experience. The major premise of Nagel’s can be summaries as: P1- Death deprives us of experiencing further good in life. Nagel makes it very clear that death itself does not hold inherently positive features which
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Reagan Schuller Substance dualism is the concept that there are two different substances; mind‚ or mental substance‚ and body‚ or physical substance. Descartes’s states that the mind does not depend on the body in order to exist and are entirely distinct from each other. Descartes’s version of dualism gives a rise to the interaction problem because it opens the door to the question of “How can the mind control the body if the mind is not physical?” In other words‚ can mental events explain the causation
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Deana Hite Prof. Bradley Intro to Ethics February 18‚ 2015 Right and Wrong How do people determine what is right and what is wrong‚ good or bad? How many times in one’s lifetime must he or she be faced with that question? Is the right choice always the moral choice‚ and who decides that it was‚ in fact‚ the correct choice? When it comes to ethical questions‚ there seem to be blurred lines from what is right and what is wrong. Merriam-Webster Dictionary outlines ethics as “the discipline dealing with
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The absurd is actually a form of contradiction in which any attempt that individuals commit to reconcile this contradiction is an attempt to escape from this absurd. Similarly‚ Nagel is also against human instant perception about committing suicide as a facility to skip suffering from their lives. Some people try to commit suicide because they think that there is no option that they can choose in order to improve their lives.
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Other than this one similarity they are contrasting views. Both Epicurus and Nagel bring forth some interesting points as to whether death is bad or not. My view on this topic is one that sides with Nagel’s‚ that death is bad. In order for Epicurus’s view to be true‚ Hedonism has to be true and in some cases that might not be the
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Intelligent Design looks to teleological evidence to explain the origin of life and the mind behind Darwinian evolution. Thomas Nagel is one of the most notable scholars who has offered support for some of the concepts of intelligent design. Despite being an atheist‚ and dismissing the concept of an all-powerful God as the driving force behind intelligent design‚ Nagel argues that evolutionary theory fails to account for human cognition‚ consciousness and
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Participants: A Case for Student Communication in Online Classes" In 2009‚ L. Nagel‚ A.S. Blignaut‚ and J.C. Cronje developed a case study to show the importance of quantity and quality of participation in an online classroom. The case study was composed of 22 graduate level students at the University of Pretoria ranging in ages 30 to 50. Weekly‚ topics were researched and students were to participate in online discussions. Nagel‚ Blignaut and Cronje looked at the number of times a student logged on‚
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example‚ Nagel decides to leave aside the complex debate over whether we are "immortal" in some fashion - and define death as being the absence of any "conscious survival" .Similarly‚ he is equally careful to restrict the valuation of life to one’s subjectivity instead of viewing it in an objective sense. This removes complications that may come from an "objective" viewing of the valuation of life from the perspective of others. Having thus carefully framed the boundaries of his argument‚ Nagel presents
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Thomas Nagel describes what he says to be only one important aspect of the evaluation of sex—sexual perversions. Thomas Nagel’s definition of sexual perversion says that it is a perversion if it is an unnatural sexual desire. A natural sexual interaction requires
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