Chapter 1 Questions and Answers: 1. Which of the following is marketing’s central role? Create and keep customers 2. Which of the following statements is true? It is more expensive to attract new customers than to retain existing ones 3. Why is there a need to monitor and understand competitors? Because customers will turn to competitors if their needs are not being me 4. Which of the following statements is true? The costs of attracting a new customer have been found to be up to
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the Pensees is widely recognized as the Pascal’s Wager. In this section‚ Pascal makes perhaps one of the most convincing argument in the history of philosophy. The French philosopher‚ physicist‚ and mathematician posited that human beings commonly bet with their lives on whether God exists or not. In paragraph 234‚ the philosopher notably affirms that if humans must act solely on the merit of some measure of surety or certainty‚ then they ought not to count on religion because it is not certain. Nonetheless
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what morality‚ justice‚ knowledge is and so on. And scientists and philosophers try to explore these things and propose different hypothesizes and theories of them. Everyone on the earth should know about at least some theories‚ and we knew about them from our philosophy courses. But to believe in these things or not it is a choice of each person. Man can choose by himself to believe in things that our scientists and philosophers propose or not to believe‚ because there are many examples when some
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see History of Philosophy (disambiguation). This article may require copy editing for grammar‚ style‚ cohesion‚ tone‚ or spelling.You can assist by editing it. (April 2013) Philosophy Philosophers Aestheticians Epistemologists Ethicists Logicians Metaphysicians Social and political philosophers Traditions Analytic Continental Eastern Islamic Platonic Scholastic Periods Ancient Medieval Modern Contemporary Literature Aesthetics Epistemology Ethics Logic Metaphysics
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The functions of philosophy are the uses of the subject to us as individuals and as members of a society. Some contemporary thinkers called the Analytic philosophers see philosophy as a study that essentially simplifies and analyses issues and statements pertaining to other subjects in order to enable us understand them better. The functions of philosophy are explained as follows: 1.Analytical Function This has to do with the analysis and clarification of ideas‚ issues‚ and statements to
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Enlightenment John Locke (August 29‚ 1632- October 28‚ 1704) was a British philosopher. Locke is considered the first of the British Empiricists‚ but is equally important to social contract theory. His ideas had enormous influence on the development of epistemology and political philosophy‚ and he is widely regarded as one of the most influential Enlightenment thinkers and contributors to liberal theory. His writings influenced Voltaire and Rousseau‚ many Scottish Enlightenment thinkers‚ as well
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Rand‚ Aristotle‚ and Frederick Nietzsche all had theories behind this‚ which was that Humans are innately selfish. Threw out society today all humans are selfish and it is proven by these philosophers that it is naturally developed and there is no cure to prevent it. Ayn Rand‚ a great Russian philosopher‚ once questioned why shouldn’t one be selfish. Ayn Rand responded to that question with her theory which she called objectivist ethics. This theory states that humans are innately selfish
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lawful opinion of what is and is not to be feared." Socrates and Glaucon find that the people in the city who exhibit this courageous behavior are the guardians of the city. The class system is based upon the knowledge of the forms‚ therefore the philosopher kings and the guardians supply wisdom. The auxiliaries provide the courage‚ and the money makers supply moderation. When all three of these are realized justice is formed. Now on to temperance‚ the two define it as a
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the system of medieval values. Another period marked by significant changes‚ is the eighteenth century or an age of Enlightenment. Although present throughout Europe‚ the origins of the Enlightenment are closely associated with France and its philosophers such as Voltaire‚ Rousseau and others.
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The concept of human nature and values have been heavily debated in philosophy and ethics for quite some time‚ and each philosopher holds certain human values above others. One philosopher whose ideas of human nature are particularly strong are those of Machiavelli. In The Prince‚ Machiavelli discusses his views of human nature and how they influence the acquisition and retention of power. Much of his opinion‚ which is negative and cynical‚ seems to come from his experiences and he concludes that
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