Christian Scherrer‚ student number: 013851259 Analysing and synthesizing passions Aspects of Cartesian and Spinozist method It has often been noted that in the third part of his „Ethics“ Spinoza follows in his list of definitions of affects to a great extent the one of passions given by Descartes in his “Passions de l’Ame” (apart from divergent evaluations of some of the passions1‚ like Spinoza´s refusal to include admiratio among them). It also appears that both of them are building a taxonomy
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Chapter 4. Idealism‚ Solipsism‚ and Panpsychism Here’s something that might sound crazy‚ but is nonetheless taken seriously by many philosophers: Not only do humans and other animals have minds‚ but even plants and bacteria have minds. Further‚ even so-called inanimate objects like grains of sand‚ droplets of water‚ and even individual atoms each have their own minds. Maybe the mind of a grain of sand is simpler than the mind of a human being‚ but it is a mind nonetheless. Everything has its
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Metaphysic Final Exam In my opinion the problems that arise with free will is that Frida would always be the one to go back in time to become the Frida Kahlo‚ which mean free will does not exist in this case. Free will does not exist because every action have a reaction and actions arise as consequence of the initialing action. Because she was named after Frida Kahlo and the invention of the time machine‚ it caused/led her to choose the path to go back in time and become the famous artist. Which
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The passage inspected above relates to morality in his work‚ Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals. Kant states‚ that laws of morality are laws that go according to which everything ought to happen. They allow for conditions in which humans naturally tend to make‚ rather than forcing humans to completely change their behavior. Laws of morality try not to include negative behavior‚ rather it promotes positive behavior that may come natural to a human being. Mankind is limited by the fact that each
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UNGS 2030 MATERIALISM Table of Contents 1.0 INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................... 2 2.0 DEFINITION OF MATERIALISM ............................................................................... 3 3.0 HISTORY OF MATERIALISM .................................................................................... 3 3.1 PERSPECTIVE OF MIND ...........................................................
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In Kant’s book‚ The Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals‚ he believes that the “good will” is only good in itself and that reason is what produces the “goodness” of the “good will.” According to Kant‚ to act out of a “good will” means to act out of “duty‚” or doing something because you find it necessary to do. Also‚ “good will” is will that is in accordance with reason. He believes everyone has a moral obligation or duty to do actions and he backs his theory up by discussing his idea of the
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“Groundwork for the Metaphysic of Morals” a rational being is someone with‚ “a will—which is the ability to act according to the thought of laws‚ i.e. to act on principle” (Kant‚ Chapter 2‚ pg. 19). Rational beings nature marks them out as ends in themselves. Another important term that Kant uses is good will. Good will is a will that acts not from inclination but from duty; not merely in accord with duty but from duty. A very important quote out of‚ “Groundwork for the Metaphysic of Morals” Kant begins
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------------------------------------------------- Biophysics From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Photosynthetic reaction center. Biophysics is an interdisciplinary science that uses the methods of‚ and theories from physics to study biological systems.[1] Biophysics spans alllevels of biological organization‚ from the molecular scale to whole organisms and ecosystems. Biophysical research shares significant overlap withbiochemistry‚ nanotechnology‚ bioengineering‚ agrophysics‚ and systems biology
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Kant starts‚ Groundings for the Metaphysics of Morals‚ by explaining the difference between things that are good‚ and things that are good only with qualification. When it comes to the first type of good there is only one thing that counts‚ good will. Good will is by itself the only thing in the universe that is unconditionally good‚ and incorruptible. Everything else that we perceive as good‚ is not really good on its own and is equally capable of being bad. Wit‚ intelligence‚ and talent are
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good or right versus those that are bad or wrong. This may seem like a simple task to distinguish in todays society‚ however philosophy has took a much more intricate account of what morality is. Philosopher Immanuel Kant‚ in his Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals‚ and philosopher Thomas Hobbes‚ in his Leviathan‚ both have very different understandings on the basis of morality and the determination of what is “good”‚ “evil”‚ “right” or “wrong”. Kant believes that purely rational principles alone
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