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    Ways That Would Motivate High School Students Marie A. Jones Walden University Ways That Would Motivate High School Students In today’s world the average hHigh sSchool student is faced with many challenges in finding ways to keep them motivated to complete their classes successfully. My position regarding the most effective way that I believe will motivate students is‚ what motivation is and the part it plays when it comes to students. From our assignment reading‚ “Cyberschools”

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    Compatibilism is the perception that loose will and determinism are well-suitable suggestions‚ and that it is possible to agree with both with no being logically inconsistent. Compatibilists accept as true with freedom may be present or absent in conditions for reasons that don’t have anything to do with metaphysics. As an instance‚ courts of legislation make judgments roughly whether persons are acting beneath their individual free will below detailed circumstances with out bringing in metaphysics

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    Who are you and what are you doing here? Welcome and congratulations: Getting to the first day of college is a major achievement. You’re to be commended‚ and not just you‚ but the parents‚ grandparents‚ uncles‚ and aunts who helped get you here. It’s been said that raising a child effectively takes a village: Well‚ as you may have noticed‚ our American village is not in very good shape. We’ve got guns‚ drugs‚ two wars‚ fanatical religions‚ a slime-based popular culture‚ and some politicians

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    Sources of Motivation Paper The story underlined in chapter one of the textbook in regard to‚ The Little Engine That Could‚ illustrates two forms of motivation could (can) and would (will). Philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1841/1960) was the first person to speculate on the relationship between motivation and behavior (Deckers‚ Introduction to Motivation and Emotion‚ 2010). Many factors exist between motivation and behavior; it is said that human behavior is driven by motivation. Motive and incentives

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    Kant’s Moral Theory: The Flaws One of the most controversial aspects of Kant’s moral philosophy is his theory regarding the concept of duty. Duty is the moral necessity to perform actions for no other reason than to obey the dictates of a higher authority without any selfish inclination. Immanuel Kant states that the only moral motivation is a devotion to duty. The same action can be seen as moral if it is done for the sake of one’s duty but also as not moral (Kant distinguished between immoral and

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    point Grimshaw argues is the way in which male philosophers devalue women and how women are believed to be inferior or held in contempt. Grimshaw notes how the views of male philosophers about women are misogynistic‚ using a phrase taken from Schopenhauer‚ ‘women are directly fitted for acting as the nurses and teachers of out early childhood by the fact that they themselves are childish‚ frivolous and short-sighted in a word they are big children all their life long.’ Grimshaw uses this phrase

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    rational faculties and‚ not surprisingly‚ God’s ten commandments can be found along with other maxims in our rationality. However‚ Nietzsche ascribed to neither of these views. Born in 1844‚ Nietzsche was influenced by Darwin and philosophers such as Schopenhauer. His moral theory mirrored more that of Hume’s in sticking to the tenants of naturalism than it resembled deontological theories such as Kant’s. The 18th century philosopher David Hume argued that morality is built on natural sympathy for others

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    His place was assured at the University as the absolute idealist. Meantime ironically down the hall‚ literally‚ Arthur Schopenhauer lectured against idealism with his own form of pessimism. Had they understood their own roles in the ironic situation they would have had a better appreciation that they themselves were being manipulated by the same laws of dialectics. As a consequence

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    Chapter 16: Soren Kierkegaard’s Repetition Brief Biography * Soren Kierkegaard was born on May 15‚ 1813 in Copenhagen‚ Denmark. * 7th child of a wealthy businessman. * His father had special philosophical interests which had great impact on him * He was also a bright student who learned to read Hebrew‚ Greek‚Latin‚German and French at the age of 17. * His philosophy‚ which he called existentialism‚ practically applied to an examined life as opposed to the works of Georg Wilhelm

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    What is morality? Arthur Schopenhauer‚ a widely renowned German philosopher‚ once stated “compassion is the basis of morality”‚ yet respected writer‚ Ernest Hemingway‚ said‚ “I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.” It seems that throughout history‚ people have had all different ideas of what morality is. However‚ all of these ideas have a common theme: morality is what a person believes is right and wrong‚ or ethical. Therefore‚

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