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INTRODUCTION A teacher’s personal philosophy speaks volumes on what they believe and how one attains knowledge. This personal philosophy reflects their principles and methods of education as a whole. According to Webb‚ Jordan‚ & Metha (2010)‚ educational philosophy “enables us to recognize certain educational principles that define our views about the learner‚ the teacher‚ and the school” (p. 50). There are many educational philosophies that one may relate to. Understanding these principles
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Chinese Philosophy and Poetry One of the most prevalent beliefs of the Chinese philosophies is that men are born good. People are naturally good unless they fail to develop their feelings and senses. Confucianism teaches that a lack of knowledge can be the cause to evil. In Poem 238‚ a woman named Chiang Yuan gave birth to the human race by sacrificing and praying to God. She bore her child easily because she sought after blessings from God. Confucianism teaches that good things will come to those
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In ancient Indian philosophy (before 100 BC)‚ philosophy and religion cannot be meaningfully separated‚ primarily because of the cultural integration of religious practices and mystical pursuits. For example‚ ceremonies celebrating birth‚ marriage‚ and death‚ performed with recitations of Vedic verses (mantras)‚ were important for bonding within ancient Indian societies. Later in classical Indian philosophy‚ different social practices developed. Thus‚ the orthodox classical schools of thought are
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PHILOSOPHY IN AFRICA PROVERBS 1.1 Proverbs as Universal Proverbs expresses the thought wisdom‚ moral codes and cultural heritage of a people or culture. It is distinct from other oral traditions such as fables‚ folklores; folk tales and riddles. Although proverbs are in- some cases derived from some of these oral traditions there is a cut clear distinction between them. Generally proverbs are inherent in majorly all cultures of the world and are generally seen as succinct and pithy sayings in general
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Adam Smith and Capitalist Philosophy Adam Smith was the first major capitalist philosopher to praise free market economy and no government involvement in the economy. Smith was an 18th century philosopher whose beliefs led to some of our modern day theories; his work marks the breakthrough of an approach which has progressively displaced the stationary Aristotelian view. His most famous book is An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations‚ which was written in 1776. Adam Smith
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St. Augustine is a fourth century philosopher whose groundbreaking philosophy infused Christian doctrine with Neoplatonism. He is famous for being an inimitable Catholic theologian and for his agnostic contributions to Western philosophy. He argues that skeptics have no basis for claiming to know that there is no knowledge. In a proof for existence similar to one later made famous by René Descartes‚ Augustine says‚ “[Even] If I am mistaken‚ I am.” He is the first Western philosopher to promote
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Creatures of Habit The Consolations of Philosophy written by Alain de Botton recounts the life of French essayist Michel de Montaigne and his journey beyond the boundaries of France. As he crossed borders to various European countries‚ Michel observed the many differing perspectives that each society possessed. Each province had their own standards used to police society into thinking that certain things are ‘normal’ versus ‘abnormal’. This narrow way of thinking disturbed Montaigne because he
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Positive liberty will be on exam‚ short question on it. Our culture is based on a negative liberty tradition. Liberalism means when used in a philosophy class usually is an ideology consists of two ideas‚ one is that liberty (neg. liberty) is a constraint on the state‚ set of notions that things the govt cant do to people. Plus idea of equality‚ so liberty constrains the other ideas of equality
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university for this honor with a few words of advice; but I have never heard a commencement speech in person. Anyways‚ I will begin my address. In the short amount of time that you have been on this planet‚ you have been educated upon the sociopolitical philosophy of individualism‚ which advocates independence‚ self-reliance‚ self-interest‚ and almost anything that has to do with you. I am not going to argue that these attributes are not beneficial—because they are. However‚ these qualities are often polarizing
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