an individual secured joy‚ innocence and security. Childhood was not a transitory period in an individual’s life but rather; it was a state of mind. In the Romantic’s protest against this Age of Reason that brought widespread enlightenment and rationalism‚ the child was praised for their lack of intellectual capacity and their reliance on imagination. In William’s Wordsworth’s poetry‚ the child is framed as a child of nature. Nature is regarded as the source of a child’s experience and imagination
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convincing. However‚ is it possible to prove the existence of anything in the physical world only through intuition and deduction? Is the perception should not have empirical content? The rationalistic verification by itself is not sufficient. Rationalism can establish a deductive connection between our ideas‚ but not the way our ideas and pure concepts relate to external reality. Thus‚ neither the intentional Descartes skepticism‚ nor his theory of evidence is not
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allows students to understand specific issues‚ themes‚ topics and controversies that they may come across. Some examples of binary oppositions in the different disciplines are‚ business (labor vs capital)‚ natural and applied science (empiricism vs rationalism)‚
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Enlightenment‚ but the most prominent American leader was a well-know political figure named Benjamin Franklin. The Enlightenment‚ also called the Age of Reason‚ was period of time when people tried to justify life in terms of scientific theory and rationalism. “The Enlightenment was responsible for inspiring revived interests in education‚ science‚ and literature” (“HistoryKing.com”). It also emphasized progression away from traditional customs and foundations that were supposedly restraining modern
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Protestantism and the Rise of Capitalism It has been asserted that the Protestant Reformation‚ a Christian transformation movement beginning in the 16th century‚ may have impacted Western European thinking in a way that changed society in a fashion that extended well beyond the church. This paper will examine whether the Protestant movement played a role in the rise of Capitalism. A German Marxist economist‚ Max Weber‚ dubbed the term “The Protestant Ethic” which has become common today.
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Immanuel Kant 1724-1804 Immanuel Kant was born on April 22‚ 1724 in Konigsberg‚ East Prussia. He was the son of a saddler. At age 8‚ he entered the Collegium Fredericianum‚ a Latin school‚ where he remained for 8 1/2 years and studied the classics. He then entered the University of Konigsberg in 1740 to study philosophy‚ mathematics‚ and physics. The death of his father halted his university career so he became a private tutor. In 1755‚ he returned to Konigsburg where he later resumed his studies
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High frequency trading HFT What is HFT and how does it work? High frequency trading (HFT) is buying and selling stocks at an incredible speed‚ we are talking about milliseconds. This is too fast to manual put in the orders‚ hereby taken over by powerful computers. They run by sophisticated algorithms that are independently scanning the market for opportunities. Those programs have very low turnover rates per share‚ only a few cents or even less. However since they trade thousands of stocks each
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Stephen Henriquez Mr. Nelson IB TOK 01/24/10 When should we trust our senses to give us truth? Our senses should be trusted in certain circumstances. Our senses can only provide us with raw information‚ but in order to gain knowledge and understanding of the information we need to implicate other ways of knowing. There is a limitation to trusting your senses because our perception will only go as far as our sense organs will allow us‚ but other ways of knowing such
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Onyekwe Nathan Poage Phil 1301-14429 15 Sept. 2016 Plato’s arguments for recollection in the Meno; what puzzle is recollection supposed to solve? Plato put together a set of theories about the human soul and knowledge as follows. The theory of rationalism: Knowledge as an essential part of reasoning and the human soul cannot be eliminated. It is an innate feature of the human soul. The second is based on a theory of existence. It argues that the soul is immortal and cannot be annihilated. The soul
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SWIFT HAS SOMETIMES BEEN seen as a champion of liberty. In his essay ‘Politics vs Literature’‚ however‚ George Orwell took a different view. ‘Swift‚’ he wrote‚ ‘was one of those people who are driven into a sort of perverse Toryism by the follies of the progressive party of the moment.’ At best Swift was ‘a Tory Anarchist‚ despising authority while disbelieving in liberty.’ At worst he was a reactionary‚ opposed not simply to sham science‚ but to all science‚ and even to intellectual curiosity itself
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