rmdascil 1 Copyright 2011‚ The American Philosophical Association. Last revised: June 13‚ 2011 Philosophy: A Brief Guide for Undergraduates 1. The Field of Philosophy Introduction Traditional Subfields of Philosophy Special Fields of Philosophy 2. The Uses of Philosophy General Uses of Philosophy The Uses of Philosophy in Educational Pursuits The Uses of Philosophy in Non-Academic Careers 3. The Philosophy Curriculum 4. Conclusion The unexamined life is not worth living. —Socrates
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and choosing a code of ethics to follow. The AACC and the AAC both provide ethical codes of conduct for the practitioner. As a Christian counselor there are many things that directly impact our ethical decisions. Our Christian world view‚ our epistemology‚ and value systems have a direct impact in which ethical code we will choose and apply to our practice. Christian Worldview A world view is how a person you perceives the world‚tyheir your actions in the world‚ and their your understanding
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Sajune Blanchard Introduction to Philosphy Descartes vs Hume Epistemology is a branch of philosophy that focuses on the theories of knowledge and justified beliefs. There are various methods that philosophers choose to arrive at knowledge and detect what can be true. Some of the philosophers that have played an important role in epistemology are René Descartes and David Hume. Even though they had spent their time doubting the sources of human knowledge‚ their approach was different although they
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Decline of print-based epistemology and rise of tv-based epistemology has had grave consequences for public life‚ that we are getting sillier by the minute ( Neil Postman‚ Amusing ourselves to death 24 ). Irony offers us the following fantasy: the people on the screen may be rich‚ spoiled‚ or beautiful
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cases. According to Wilson (2010) Nash (1999) tells us that there are five major areas of worldviews and there are corresponding that treats the major areas of worldview: 1. Philosophical Theology (God)‚ 2. Metaphysical (ultimate reality)‚ 3. Epistemology (theory of knowledge)‚ 4. Ethics (study of morality) and 5. Philosophical Anthropology (human nature). Philosophical Theology is the part of philosophy of religion and it develops and utilizes ways to understand doctrines or theological concepts
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Grosz‚ Elizabeth. Volatile Bodies: Towards a Corporeal Feminism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press‚ 1994. In ‘’Refiguring bodies” published in 1994 by the Indian University Press‚ philosophical journal ‘Volatile Bodies: Towards a Corporeal Feminism’‚ Elizabeth Grosz‚ examines ‘key features of the received history that we have inherited in our current conceptions of bodies’ (47). The significant term ‘somatophobia’ is used by Grosz to describe the philosophical foundations of our notion of
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logic‚ and Epistemology have been proven to live on to this day. In “The Making of the West Peoples and Cultures‚ Volume 1‚ The Nature of Women and Marriage”‚ Socrates has a story written by his follower Xenophon‚ that discusses the gender roles in marriage in the late fifth century B.C.E. What Socrates tells his friend Ischomachus are the qualities a woman
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Labor Practices Brenna Heyne PHL/320 02/16/2015 Todd Goodling Sweatshop Labor Sweatshop labor can be described as work that is performed under conditions that violate normal standards of minimum wage‚ employment‚ worker treatment‚ and workplace health or safety (Govekar‚ 2006). Sweatshops can exist anywhere and some may argue they can be beneficial and driven by market demands. In my opinion sweatshop labor is unethical and should not be allowed to be used to produce products for
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Herve M Tshimanga PHL 101 Jesse Patterson June 6‚ 2016 Reading Response – Buddhism The Buddha discussed the human problem and its solution together. The short statement that lays out these out “The Four Noble Truths” forms the main foundation of Buddhism that differentiates it from all other religions. And the eightfold path witch some of the point make since to me understand Buddhism’s goal of abandoning “earthly and carnal desire.” The eightfold path‚ although referred to as steps on a path‚
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recently‚ within the lifetime of my parents. It is sad hearing how much people hated races that they knew very little about but also encouraging that people have changed over recent years to be more understanding of them. The authors term of moral epistemology of imperialism is the original thinking that justified colonizing the Americas originally. The major historians of the time and for a great amount of time after were European. This made it easy to write books and shape history to make it look like
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