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    aristotle vs. plato

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    Aristotle VS. Plato Epistemology‚ “theory of knowledge”‚ is the logic of getting to the metaphysics. Ontology‚ “theory of being”‚ is the very distinct part of metaphysics‚ where definitional divisions appear even larger than in metaphysics itself. “Ontos”‚ a Greek word‚ which means “being” and “episteme”‚ is a Greek word‚ which means “knowledge” of the highest‚ most reliable and certain kind. For Plato‚ there exist two worlds: the ever changing material world and the eternal world of Forms

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    Time and Being On the first page of Being and Time‚ Heidegger describes the project in the following way: Our aim in the following treatise is to work out the question of the sense of being and to do so concretely. Heidegger claims that traditional ontology has prejudicially overlooked this question‚ dismissing it as overly general‚ indefinable‚ or obvious. Instead Heidegger proposes to understand being itself‚ as distinguished from any specific entities.”Being” is not something like a being."Being

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    Explain Feuerbach’s teaching on Religion Feuerbach began his philosophical career as a Hegelian but quickly came to see the shortcomings of this philosophy. He argued that Hegel’s system was a mere ‘ghost of theology’ and swiftly moved on to write his own works. His most famous being ‘The Essence of Christianity’ and ‘The Essence of Religion’. Feuerbach was a modernist and in his major works he tends to reduce religion to its existential‚ sociological and anthropological origins. Feuerbach states

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    Topic: State the main points of Marcuse ’s critique of Sartre‚ and consider the grounds on which Sartre might defend himself. Could Sartre succeed? Herbert Marcuse ’s critique of Sartre in Existentialism: Remarks on Jean-Paul Sartre ’sL ’Etre et le Neant is based on the claim that Sartre ’s method is ontologically impure‚ in that its account of the nature of consciousness is in fact abstracted from historical factors. This criticism was not specific to Sartre. Marcuse ’s approach is rooted firmly

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    Traditional African Religion

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    Traditional African Religion Before one starts to outline the traditional religion in Africa‚ one must first explain the way Africa is as a whole. Without the knowledge of the past combined with knowledge of culture‚ one would have a very vague‚ if any‚ understanding of traditional religion. Out of all of the continents‚ Africa is the most central. It is told that the first man was found in Africa‚ so with this‚ many feel that Africa is the birthplace of human culture. Within this continent

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    PART I What is Organization Theory? theorist /’ Ιər Ιst/ n. a holder or inventor of a theory or theories. theorize/’ ΙəraΙz/ v. intr. (also -ise) evolve or indulge in theories. theorizer n. theory /’ ΙərΙ / n. (pl. -ies) 1 a supposition or system of ideas explaining something‚ esp. one based on general principles independent of the particular things to be explained (opp. HYPOTHESIS) (atomic theory; theory of evolution). 2 a specula- tive (esp. fanciful) view (one of my pet theories).

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    Printing‚ 2006 * Leo Tolstoy‚ The Diaries of Leo Tolstoy‚ 2009 * Bain‚ Andre (1967) ‘The Ontology of the Photographic Image’ What is Cinema?‚ vol.1. Berkley: University of California press‚ 9 – 16. * A.R. Duckworth‚ Influential Theorists: Andre Bazin – The Ontology Of The Photographic Image‚ The motley view‚ 2008 http://ardfilmjournal.wordpress.com/2008/12/01/influential-theorists-andre-bazin-%E2%80%93-the-ontology-of-the-photographic-image/ * Daily Mirror statement in full‚ CNN‚ 2004 http://web.archive

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    thus one can only conjecture his opinion on the matter. This essay seeks to highlight Descartes main beliefs in the three main areas of philosophical endeavour; epistemology‚ ontology‚ and ethics. It will then infer from these how Descartes would approach euthanasia. Descartes was a rationalist; he based his ideas about ontology and ethics on his ideas about epistemology. He demonstrated the importance of the mind with his analogy on wax. Wax‚ Descartes reasoned‚ is in a completely different form when

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    Antonomy

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    Oral presentation 2 Summary of the article Antonyms - from convention to meaning-making by: Carita Paradis & Caroline Willners Lund University Found at: http://lup.lub.lu.se/luur/download?func=downloadFile&recordOId=1718212&fileOId=1718215 10/29/12 Antonyms As simple as it may seem to say black-white‚ big-small and in-out‚ antonyms are in fact quite complicated. One of the most commonly expressed antonyms fast-slow might be one of the more complicated as well. We can use rapid-slow

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    formulation of the ontological argument. The writings of the ontological argument in The Proslogian were Anselm’s reflections of the passage Psalm 14:1 “Fools say in their hearts ’There is no god’” and directs his argument at the ‘fools’ From this passage. Ontology means the study of being so therefore Anselm’s argument is formulated to prove the existence of god through the study of being. Anselm formulates 2 ontological arguments for the existence of god. Anselm’s first argument is based on three premises

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