PAUL RICOEUR’S Concept of Man’s Fallibility As a way of Hoping in Man’s Innate Goodness ------------------ A Research Study Submitted to Sacred Heart Seminary-Bacolod ----------------- In Partial Fulfillment to the Requirements for the Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy By: Sem. Rommel Falc G. Palivino February 22‚ 2013 CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION From the beginning humans have tried to transcend the condition of fallibility. One of the oldest stories in the
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beginning of meditation 2 in: Cottingham‚ J (ed)‚ Descartes: Selected Writings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press‚ 73—76. Kennington‚ R. 1971. The Finitude of Descartes’ Evil Genius. Journal of the History of Ideas. Vol. 32‚ No. 3: pp. 442. Kierkegaard‚ S. 1985. Philosophical Fragments. Trans. Hong. Princeton. pp. 38-42. Smith‚ Kurt. 2010. Zalta‚ E. (ed)‚ Descartes’ Life and Works. http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2010/entries/descartes-works/ [29/03/2012] SparkNotes Editors
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engineers‚ Henning Holck-Larsen and Soren Kristian Toubro. Both of them were strongly committed to developing India ’s engineering capabilities to meet the demands of industry. Beginning with the import of machinery from Europe‚ L&T rapidly took on engineering and construction assignments of increasing sophistication. Today‚ the company sets global engineering benchmarks in terms of scale and complexity. Early Days ;) In 1938‚ Henning Holck-Larsen and Soren Kristian Toubro decided to forgo
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experience of a 14-year-old girl‚ Sophie. Before her 15-year birthday‚ she took a special philosophy course taught by Albert‚ a wired but knowledgeable guy. In the course‚ she got to know the greatest philosophers ever‚ from Socrates to Kant‚ from Kierkegaard to Freud. Meanwhile‚ she was also thinking the same questions as these great men‚ questions about the essence of human beings and this world. However‚ there was also something odd happening in Susan’s life. In fact‚ she found out that she was just
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Cartesian Skepticism to Existentialism The nature of our reality and existence has been a topic of debate since at least the ancient Greeks. Do we exist? Why do we exist? Does it even matter? These are questions I will attempt to address thoroughly. Answers may not be comfortable or satisfactory‚ but it’s better to rip that band-aid off now than continue blindly in the dark. Rationalism and Empiricism have both attempted to prove existence‚ but at their most extremes they fall apart. Using
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Chapter 1 The Foundation of Ethical Thought Multiple Choice Questions Utilitarian Ethics: One Playground at a Time 1. Which country is the focus of “Utilitarian Ethics: One Playground at a Time”? a. India b. Bangladesh c. South Africa d. Nigeria Difficulty: Easy Page 1 2. “Utilitarian Ethics: One Playground at a Time” addresses what problem? a. not enough schools in the country b. not enough children going to school c. lack of clean drinking water in the community d. lack of shelter in the community
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person’s existence. One can be completely filled with truths and have absolutely no sense of reality‚ making him mad. A person can only have a strong grasp on reality and avoid madness if he has a balance between objective and subjective truth. Kierkegaard goes on to explain this statement about truth being equivalent to madness by providing an example of an inmate of a psychiatric ward who tries to prove his sanity by proclaiming‚ “Bang‚ the earth is round!” each time he is cued to do so. In his
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Descartes Chapter Questions According to Descartes‚ Rationalism is an epistemological position in which reason is said to be the primary source of all knowledge‚ superior to sense evidence. In other words‚ rationalism is the idea that people need to have some sort of reasoning to back up their ideas. Nobody is going to believe you just because you said it‚ you have to provide evidence. Rationalists believe that abstract reasoning can produce absolute truths about nature and existence in general
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already exist in order to become what it is. (2) Anxiety and anguish. The fear or dread which is not directed at any specific object‚ it’s just there. Anguish is the dread of the nothingness of human existence‚ the meaningless of it. According to Kierkegaard‚ anguish is the underlying‚ all-pervasive‚ universal condition of man’s existence. (3) Absurdity. "Granted I am my own existence‚ but this existence is absurd." Everybody is here‚ everybody exists‚ but there is no reason as to why. We’re just here
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and Müller’s postmodernist reworking of the tragic canon‚ tragedy has remained an important site of cultural experimentation‚ negotiation‚ struggle‚ and change. A long line of philosophers—which includes Plato‚ Aristotle‚ Augustine‚ Voltaire‚ Hume‚ Diderot‚ Hegel‚ Schopenhauer‚ Kierkegaard‚ Nietzsche‚ Freud‚Benjamin‚ Camus‚ Lacan‚ and Deleuze—have analysed‚ speculated upon‚ and criticised the tragic form. In the wake of Aristotle’s Poetics (335 BCE)‚ tragedy has been used to make genre distinctions‚ whether at the scale of poetry in
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