may not have access to recent journals; however‚ a scholarly resource such as www.scholar.google.com might be sufficient for a draft proposal. The background will identify a specific purpose for the conduct of the research. Research conducted at Swinburne University is expected to contribute to the body of knowledge. This means that candidates must demonstrate an understanding of the existing body of knowledge that will be contributed to by this research. The background will clearly identify gaps
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| The Influence of Attachment Styles and Motivation Behind Binge Drinking | | Kathryn Smith | | Submitted as a PSS220 Lab Report for Swinburne University Lilydale This study examines attachment styles and the influence different motives have on binge drinking in young adults between 18 and 30 year olds. There were 238 Swinburne University students and 103 non-students who participated in this study‚ all participants answered a questionnaire on attachment‚ motives and the amount
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“Can we know God by experience?” - Donovan 2 In ‘Can we know God by experience?’ Peter Donovan questions whether it is possible to have direct‚ intuitive knowledge of God. Intuition is an experiential belief characterized by its immediacy. It is direct perception or insight without any need for evidence or argument. Intuition or intuitive knowledge is the main theme of Donovan. He suggested that knowledge can be attained through intuition. Especially the claim that people who have religious experiences
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‘Arguments from religious experience are never convincing.’ (35 marks) Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud present challenges to religious experiences. Marx’s challenges to religious experience arguments are sociological; he suggested that the origins of religious experience are to be found in society. He states religion is about mythological beliefs and an unreal god that distracted people from the real world‚ religion is ‘the opium of the people’‚ religious experiences create alienation and a religious
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(i) Outline two solutions to the problem of evil (21 marks) The problem is how do we reconcile an omnipotent and omnibenevolent God with the existence of evil and suffering in the world? The God of classical theism should be willing and able to remove evil and suffering. However‚ evil exists. This kind of solution is called a theodicy. A theodicy does not deny the existence of moral and natural evil‚ it proposes that there are good reasons why God does not intervene when conceivably he could or
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Ethics: Bad Marriage‚ Quick Divorce’‚ in Environmental Philosophy‚ edited by Michael E. Zimmerman‚ et al. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall‚ 1993‚ pp. 84-94 Peter Singer‚ ‘Practical Ethics’ (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press‚ 1979) pp. 48-71 R.G. Swinburne‚ ‘Arguments for the Existence of God’‚ in Key Themes in Philosophy‚ edited by A. Phillips Griffiths. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press‚ 1989‚ pp. 121-133
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Swinburne University of Technology (Sarawak Campus) Assessment of Student’s Assignment (Sem 2‚ 2014) Subject Code / Name: HES2155 / Geomechanics Assessment for: Laboratory test + Assignment (Consolidation) Name of Student: Report writing / presentation / layout skills: Excellent 1 point V. Good 0.8 point Good 0.6 point Acceptable 0.4 point Poor 0.2 point V. Poor 0.1 point Total Reporting format Total marks out of 1 for Report Writing Skills: Content / Questions: Excellent 1
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Evaluate Hume’s claim that miracles are the least likely of events (35) A miracle is often defined as an extraordinary event which cannot be explained either by natural or scientific laws. However‚ this definition of miracles often varies person to person. R.H. Holland defines miracles as a “remarkable and beneficial coincidence that is interpreted in a religious fashion‚” whereas David Hume‚ writing during the Enlightenment period as an empiricist claimed that miracles are both improbable and
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have experiences of God ’s angels and miracles should be believed‚ as Richard Swinburne later discusses. The are doubts however‚ as William James has claimed‚ in The Varieties of Religious Experience that some religious experiences are self-induced either by drugs or drunkenness‚ they are essentially private and individualistic‚ therefore unable to be truly revealed in a way that others may understand. Richard Swinburne‚ Professor of Philosophy at Oxford University‚ claims that a believer ’s explanation
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“Critically assess the claim that religious language is meaningless” Religious language has been argued about by many philosophers to whether or not the ways in which we speak about religion are relevant or meaningful. This issue of religious language looks at the way we talk about God‚ debate ideas and communicate our theist or atheist ideologies. For some‚ religious language is meaningful and full of purpose while others see it to being incomprehensible and pointless. The Vienna Circle was
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