This week we read pieces about madness in the ancient world‚ and how different cultures viewed it. The first piece was a dialogue of Socrates from Plato’s Phaedrus‚ the second speech. In the dialogue Socrates is speaking to young Phaedrus about love‚ sanity‚ and madness. His main point is the idea that it is acceptable to become mad‚ and that‚ though love seems strange and silly‚ it is a divine gift that brings the spirit ever higher towards the gods after death. “Neither human wisdom nor divine
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Philosophy 1. How are Plato’s and Descartes’ views of the soul/self similar? Both Plato and Descartes believe that the soul/self is best (or only) to think and learn separate from the body and its faculties. According to Plato‚ “the soul reasons best without bodily senses.” Plato claims that sight‚ hearing‚ pain‚ and pleasure are a distraction to the soul in its search for reality‚ and that true knowledge can only be achieved with pure thought alone. “The body confuses the soul and prevents
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this life I must view prime reality as the one in which I am accomplishing things. If I am not viewing this as the really real then I am constantly questioning my actions and challenging what I am doing with this question always at the forefront‚ “Is my awake state truly a dream state and when I sleep is that real? If this were the case my productivity would be low and my actions on a daily basis would become a constant battle. For now‚ especially in order to finish my studies I view my awake state
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Significance of Euthanasia ------------------------------------------------- This understanding of euthanasia emphasizes two important features of acts of euthanasia. First‚ that euthanasia involves the deliberate taking of a person’s life; and‚ second‚ that life is taken for the sake of the person whose life it is - typically because she or he is suffering from an incurable or terminal disease. This distinguishes euthanasia from most other forms of taking life. Classification of euthanasia
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A Day That Changed My World View Michael Strbac ENC 1101- Composition 1 05/18/2011 A Day That Changed My World View I remember getting up in the morning‚ starting breakfast and turning on the TV just as I had on many other normal mornings. I was having Raison Bran for breakfast and looking for something interesting on TV to watch. All the stations were covering the same thing. The date‚ 09/11/2001. Things would never be normal again. I called work‚ Inland Express Airport Shuttle Service
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war‚ killing‚ & overpowering a fellow being. According to me‚ Peace is the feeling that all’s right with the world. When everyone around me in my family‚ my friend circle and my neighbourhood is happy‚ eager to love‚ accept and relate… I feel at peace. Also‚ to me it means following what my heart says and sharing mutual trust and respect for people around me. However‚ in today’s world‚ peace and harmony face various threats. Terrorism‚ regional imbalance‚ economic disparity‚ and social inequality
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Introduction to Philosophy Philosophical Concerns according to Dr. Bob Zunjic The study of philosophy may deal with every dimension of human life and can raise questions in any field of study or endeavor. Philosophy pursues questions rather than answers. Philosophy is not bound by any particular “truths” that set limits to the desire to continue asking questions. Philosophy changes historically both in respect to its content and its character. Definitions Etymologically‚ philosophy is derived
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chapter 2 pg.14-25 Socrates: The First Moralist Socrates (c.470-399 B.C) he was 70 years old when he died‚ his father was Sophroniscus‚ a sculptor‚ his mother Phaenarete‚ was a midwife. Socrates was likely a stonemason and a sculptor before turning to philosophy. He was a soldier during the Peloponnesian War. He has walked barefoot across ice‚ meditated standing up for thirty-six hours. He had the ability to ignore physical discomfort in order to achieve some greater mental or spiritual objective.The oracle
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World View on Abortion Stephen Howell Writings of Reason and Revolution Prof. Charles Chitwood May 26‚ 2013 A young man‚ John‚ wakes up to go to work and receives a phone call from a girl he has been seeing for a couple months. John asks Susan‚ “What’s wrong you sound upset?” That’s when he receives the news that he is going to be a father. Both of them are extremely scared‚ it must be understood they are only in their early twenties and neither one of them is ready to be a parent. The decision
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PHILOSOPHY Philosophy is divided into many sub-fields. These include epistemology‚ logic‚ metaphysics‚ ethics‚ and aesthetics. Epistemology is concerned with the nature and scope of knowledge‚ such as the relationships between truth‚ belief‚ and theories of justification. Logic is the study of the principles of correct reasoning. Metaphysics is the study of the most general features of reality‚ such as existence‚ time‚ the relationship between mind and body‚ objects and their properties‚ wholes
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