reason‚ curiosity‚ humour‚ understanding and acceptance • Z: public place: mash of culture with their hats on‚ no connection except murder and death • L: D’s doppelganger? R (empathy and connection to D) shoots him • P: death of abandoned toy: materialism killed her: laughing doll • R: renewal‚ baptism‚ dove‚ blue light sky‚ lasting connection to D • Impersonal information society • Migration – different cultures → globalisation • Contraception• Responsibility of creator and ethical responsibilities
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relations. It starts from statements made by the editors in their editorial published in the first issue of this journal. The editors noted that there seemed to have been less adherence to positivism in international relations than in other areas of political science and that there was both more opposition to positivism and more methodological and epistemological openness in international relations than in political science generally. The article outlines the current state of the field‚ focusing on
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The History of Philosophy A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y and Z (A) Abelard‚ Peter: One of the most heated debates that troubled the church in the Middle Ages was the question of universals. This question goes back as far as Plato’s Forms. It has to do with the relationship between the abstract and general concepts that we have in our minds (what is the relationship between Chair with a capitol “C” and chair with a small “c”?). And from this‚ two radical viewpoints emerged
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either to internal physiological events or hypothetical constructs such as the mind. During their developmental years and prime time ‚ Behaviorist championed ideas that were in harmony with philosophical position of logical positivism equally hailed in the field of physics. In that ‚ both fields held the stand that concepts should be defined by operations used to measure them to keep science tightly grounded to observable data in order to remove
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WILLIAM JAMES AND LIFE AFTER DEATH A. W. Orr Saybrook University San Francisco‚ CA December 12‚ 2013 2 WILLIAM JAMES AND LIFE AFTER DEATH William James’ views about life after life death can be summed up in two words‚ not proven. Over the course of his career he encountered the question repeatedly. He considered it‚ he pondered it‚ and he explored it. In the end his views did not significantly change. At the same time he found the idea fascinating and was continually intrigued
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Nihilistic Tides Like waves ebbing and flowing from coast to coast‚ one moves through day to day life without question or conscious recognition or belief of what is happening. This parallels with the waves of thoughts boiling in the minds of nihilists. The philosophical process of nihilism is defined as “the belief in nothing or a rejection of objective truth‚ social conventions‚ and moral meaning” (“Nihilism”) A wave of nothingness crowds the shores of minds with a state of utter emptiness. To discover
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Adjunct Faculty‚ Argosy University (Washington‚ DC campus) and American University (Washington‚ DC) Philosophical realism‚ a currently prominent approach in the philosophy of science‚ is gaining increased attention as an alternative to both positivism/empiricism and constructivism as a stance for research and evaluation in the social sciences (Campbell‚ 1988; House‚ 1991; Mark‚ Henry‚ & Julnes‚ 2000; Maxwell‚ 1990‚ 1992‚ 2004a‚ 2008; Pawson‚ 2006; Pawson & Tilley‚ 1997; Sayer‚ 1992‚ 2000). Contemporary
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Aquinas c) Modern (1) Locke (2) Berkeley (3) Hume 4) Kant and post-Kantian thinkers (Modern) a) Immanuel Kant b) Hegel 5) Pragmatism (contemporary-20th Century) a) Pierce b) James c) Dewey Skepticism- method of achieving certainty Empiricism- that is‚ there is nothing in the intellect that was not first in the senses. Rationalism- holds that the intellect contains important truths that were not placed there by sensory experience. “Something never comes from nothing‚” Aristotle
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Semiotics Symbols are a means of communication – can include authority and process. A symbol is something which signifies something else. The purpose of symbols is to convey meaning. Semiotics Symbols are a means of communication – can include authority and process. A symbol is something which signifies something else. The purpose of symbols is to convey meaning. Ideology Coherent set of ideas and their underpinning logic‚ which inform action‚ preferences. It is the framework we use to
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view or to a specific ethic or belief. Contents [hide] 1 Branches of philosophy 2 History of philosophy 2.1 Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy 2.2 Medieval philosophy 2.3 Eastern philosophy 3 Modern philosophy 3.1 Rationalism and empiricism 3.2 Kantian philosophy and the rise of idealism 3.3 American pragmatism 3.4 The prominence of logic 3.5 Phenomenology and
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