traditional views on scripture and sexuality. The new cultural narrative on moral truth is that it hinges on subjective personal experience‚ or “what is true for me”. Biblical morality stands opposed as something that is objective and universal. It is discovered‚ not invented by our own paths. Because of these approaches and narratives‚ words such as tolerance and human dignity have become subjective and in some cases malleable. Contemporary culture views worth as shaped by our experiences‚ and my disagreement
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Socrates: How can society comprehend‚ if we don’t query all? Interlocutor: Then the implication that the defined is consistently incorrect‚ is assumed. The original meaning of a word‚ was derived from an origin. Socrates: The explanation is always subjective… Interlocutor: interruption - Is the accuracy
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ETHICS: DISCOVERING RIGHT AND WRONG Louis Pojman‚ James Fieser Book Outline to Seventh Edition Prepared by James Fieser with additions by Sandra Dreisbach 1. WHAT IS ETHICS 1) Introduction i) Kitty Genovese example 2) Ethics and its subdivisions i) Philosophy a) Clarify concepts‚ analyze and test propositions and beliefs b) Major task is to analyze and construct arguments ii) Ethics vs. morality a) Both terms derive their meaning
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inhere in an object: size‚ shape‚ weight and so on. Secondary Qualities: According to Locke‚ qualities that we impose on an object: colour‚ smell‚ texture and so on. Solipsism: An extreme form of subjective idealism‚ contending that only I exist and that everything else is a product of my subjective consciousness. Skepticism: In epistemology‚ the view that varies between doubting all assumptions until proved and claiming that no knowledge is possible. Analytic Judgment: Sumum Bonum:
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Unit 1-Chapter 1-Three Social Sciences Three Social Sciences-know the definitions and the types of questions asked Social Science Inquiry Model –know all the steps and how to apply it Research Methods Analyzing Data Drawing Conclusions Subjective conclusions: Type of conclusions shaped by a person’s cultural and personal perspective‚ feelings ‚ and briefs. Objective conclusions: Type of conclusions based on facts and data and uninfluenced by personal perspectives‚ prejudices‚ or emotions
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-determinism: physical‚ psychical‚ indeterminism‚ Nondeterminism (hard and soft) -Karl Popper vs. Thomas Kuhn‚ Paul Feyerabend Chapter 2-Greek Psychology (Philosophy) -animism‚ anthropomorphism‚ transmigration of the soul‚ relativism -Socrates against relativism‚ knowledge as virtue Plato -the analogy of the divided line (sensory info‚ ignorance‚ opinion)‚ true forms‚ Academy‚ reminiscence theory of knowledge -tripartite mind (appetitive‚ affective‚ rational) Aristotle -student
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Social location/pg.3- the group memberships that people have because of their location in history and society. The term of social location as it corresponds to the video shows the memberships that just about all young Mexican migrant workers share in order to assist the parents in providing for their families. You can also see throughout the whole time in the video their how their roles play out. Honestly you would not even be able to call them farmers but peasants because they work in the much
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Theory Summary This is an outline and summary of three of the most prominent ethical theories in the history of philosophy. (Note that all three of these represent different ethical absolutist/universalist theories. A view known as ethical relativism follows these.) Please take this as a sketch that invites you to investigate these ethical theories further. After each brief sketch‚ I will provide some web links that will be helpful to read. Virtue Ethics (especially Aristotle) From
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SSH 105 – Critical Thinking Fall 2013 Prof. Andrew Hunter When studying for the quiz‚ you should review the following material: Chapter One (of The Power of Critical Thinking) Chapter Two (of The Power of Critical Thinking) You should also review the PowerPoint lecture slides. These are available on Blackboard. Your own notes from the lectures and the tutorial. You should try the exercises at the end of each chapter. There are solutions for some of these at the end
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Peter the PandererSusan Phillips National American University Peter the PandererIn this political speech I have identified the arguments and non-arguments‚ facts and non-facts‚ statements that are subjective‚ and the statements that are relativist ("The Basic Concepts of Critical Thinking‚" 2013). The arguments I identified would be in these statements that support final claims. The fifth paragraph shows an argument “our community endured the same hard times.” The supporting statement would
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