In Bernard Mac Laverty’s novel Cal‚ the author sheds light on the conflict in Northern Ireland through a nineteen year old Catholic named Cal. This ideological war has devastating and detrimental effects on all involved especially Cal. Cal is a victim of this war as he is thrown into it and expected to react. As this violent war is surrounding Cal‚ he is also facing another type of conflict: an internal one. This internal conflict is a result of Cal’s psychological well being and results in self
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Is proof for the existence of God necessary? PHI 208: Ethics and Moral Reasoning Instructor September 17‚ 2013 Is proof for the existence of God necessary? When you ask a human how the universe evolved some will say that man created the universe. Next question‚ how can man create something in outer space? Now the room is silent‚ why is that? How can you answer a question that cannot be answered? So why do you need proof that God exist‚ what will that prove‚ that people are actually
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Apologetics Application Paper Final Mike McDowell APOL 500 7 November 2013 Naturalism versus Christianity Naturalism is a prominent worldview that is held and praised widely in today’s modern world. However‚ when examined closely and held up to certain criteria that would establish it as a legitimate worldview‚ one can see that it comes up short in several areas such as the source of morality‚ internal logical consistency‚ and human nature. In these areas that Naturalism fails
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Why Privacy Matters: Debunking the Nothing-to-Hide Argument In today’s society‚ the word “privacy” has become ubiquitous. We see it every day; on HIPAA forms‚ social networking sites‚ online transactions‚ et cetera. In his essay‚ “Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have ‘Nothing to Hide’”‚ published in May of 2011‚ Professor Daniel J. Solove argues that the issue of privacy affects more than just individuals hiding a wrong. Solove jumps right into his dissection of the “I’ve got nothing to hide”
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In Metaphysics Richard Taylor outlines the different views on the concept of freedom. The traditional view is that of the compatibilists which states that freedom is the ability to act‚ or not to act‚ according to the determinations of the will. It is so defined to make it compatible with the theory of determinism‚ which essentially states that all actions have a causal explanation due to the state of the world in the moment previous. However‚ the definition is clearly inadequate due to the fundamental
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Explain concisely the philosophical problems of the relation between the mind and body. The mind and our understanding of what it is has been the centre of philosophical debate since the 6th Century BC where the ancient Greeks sort for ways of explaining human action. No longer did the Homeric understanding that human action was simply the result of his environment sufficient‚ an inward search to explain actions took place and as such‚ the concept of psyche was developed. The concept of psyche
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Elaborate Rehearsal Elaborate rehearsal is a good way to help people memorize new things (knowledge or hard concept). It is a technique to remember some hard stuff‚ and is much more effective and efficient than just reciting information repeatedly. The information organized in our mind is based on a schema; a schema is a collection of linked concepts. When we think about one thing we will also think about something else that relates to it. For example‚ talking about coffee‚ we will also mention
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Aristotle believed that there had to be one primary cause for the world to make sense. There must be something that triggered off the ‘chain of movement’. The Prime Mover is the ‘Uncaused First Cause’‚ both the unmoved mover and the final cause. As a result this means that all of earth and existence is in a constant stage of movement and change.‚ Aristotle is similar in his thinking to just like another philosopher‚ Heraclitus‚ who believed everything is in a dramatic state of change and‚ that this
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A definition is an explanation of a thing that sets it apart from all others. The name of the thing or idea precedes the definition but cannot be a part of it. You cannot explain a term by simply repeating it. You must find other words. The formal definition contains the following parts: 1. The term that names the thing or idea. 2. The class or category to which the term belongs (for instance‚ copper can be grouped with “metals”) 3. The characteristics of the term that set it
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Philosophy as Metaphysics ABSTRACT: Philosophy works with special types of objects: the totalities. The basic characteristics of this type of object are their metaphysical‚ transcendental‚ and total character. The character of these objects determines the specificity of language and the methods of philosophy. The language of philosophy represents symbolic language; speculation is the basic method of philosophy. On the one hand‚ objects of this type emphasis homo sapien as essences capable of
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