St. Francis College of Commerce BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY St. Francis University was a medium-sized private University‚ located in a major port city in Visayas. The University is well known for its engineering and Science degree courses and was one of the better private universities in the city. The university had a total enrollment of about 26‚000 at both the graduate and the undergraduate levels. The College of Commerce was a major unit of the University. However‚ it has only 3000 student enrollees
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Francis Keala was Honolulu Police Department’s former chief‚ beginning 1969 and retiring in 1983. He is a Saint Louis graduate‚ and went to the University of Hawaii and got his bachelor’s degree in sociology. Not much is known about his early life. In the Honolulu Police Department‚ he spent 25 years as the police chief. His main goal was to focus on the drug abuse in Hawaii. He had commanded several operations‚ including “Operation Hukilau”. Francis is the first police chief with a college
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Descartes’ Cogito argument and defective nature doubt are mutually damaging to each other’s respective claims. Defective nature dismisses logic yet Cogito uses it‚ by doing so Descartes contradicts himself‚ falling trap to his own scrutiny. Ruling out his own perception‚ how can Descartes make plausible claims when he doubts his very ability to do so? The reasoning behind Descartes’ doubtfulness is that‚ in essence‚ he wants to know what he can and cannot doubt. If Descartes knows what is doubtable
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In his Fourth Meditation‚ Descartes approaches the problem of human mistakes and ultimately reconciles this with the existence of a non-deceiving God. He takes issue with the notion of God‚ being perfect‚ creating in him an imperfection – that is‚ the capacity to make mistakes. Mistakes‚ according to Descartes‚ arise when we are mistaken or deceived about a truth. But God is not a deceiver; and given that God has given humans the ability to judge‚ it doesn’t follow that he should give us the ability
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Understanding Descartes’ Method of Doubt Clear your mind‚ if you will‚ of everything you have ever seen or known to be true. To begin understanding Rene Descartes’ method of doubt‚ you need to suspend all prejudice and prior judgments and start with a clean slate "for the purpose of discovering some ultimate truth on which to base all thought." (Kolak‚ Pg.225). Discouraged with much skepticism from his own beliefs‚ Descartes was embarrassed of his own ignorance. He set out to try and accomplish
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St. Francis of Sales Francis de Sale was born in the district of Savoy in France in 1567. It has been said that Francis received the best education in Paris‚ and Pauda. However since he theology wasn’t taught at those schools he learned theology secretly.- www.scborromeo.org. When Francis was young his father told him that he wanted him to be a soldier after he went to study in Paris. Francis didn’t like the thought of that because after studying in Padua and getting his doctorate in law he knew
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In Descartes’ First Meditation‚ why does he set about doubting all of his knowledge? What is he hoping to achieve? Descartes mentions that several years have passed since he first realized how numerous were the false opinions that he had once taken to be true. He notes that the subsequent opinions he built were suspect to doubt because of this. He says that he has gained his knowledge through senses or through the senses. The senses are sometimes deceptive‚ and it is prudent not to trust that which
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The fifth meditation starts off by Descartes straying away from meditating on the aspects of himself and God and compelling himself to focus on what he was pondering on a few days ago: material things. But before Descartes tries to reason if material things outside himself exist‚ he must first make sure material things can be definite outside his thoughts without being subjected to doubtfulness. Other than that‚ anything outside these parameters has to be omitted and seen as distractions from what
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topic of the Meditation Three discusses the concept of God and the proof of His existence. Descartes begins with the assertion that he is a ’thinking thing’ and therefore‚ he exists. Next‚ he further questions the source of his thoughts and certainty of anything else‚ because there are things that he previously admitted as certain and evident that later discovered to be doubtful (P.70). Therefore‚ Descartes concluded he has to find out whether there is God and that He is not a deceiver‚ to remove
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but Pope Francis changed history once again. The Pope directed‚ “He is not a Christian if he said those things”‚ towards Donald Trump. The Pope disagrees with Trump’s intention to build another wall between the U.S.-Mexico border. Pope Francis also does not understand why Trump is trying to build walls instead of building bridges‚ in other words‚ helping to make the Nation prosper with structures where they are needed. Trump does not care about the Pope says and declared that Pope Francis should not
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