Homework 7 Immanuel Kant was a philosopher that focused on religion and science. He often had ideas that religion was explained by science. He believed for someone to have room in their mind for faith‚ they needed to have less room in their mind for other things. If someone is uneducated and is interested in fires or hurting people‚ then they will have no room in their mind for faith and that is why they do not believe. A very important theory he discussed was the idea of how we learn. He believed
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Mariah Mitchell was born in 1818. Mitchell grew up in Nantucket Massachusetts‚ she was the third oldest of ten children. Her father was the one who helped her with her interest in astronomy. At an early age Maria’s father “used stellar observations to check the accuracy of chronometers for Nantucket‚ Massachusetts‚ whalers and taught his children to use a sextant and reflecting telescope” (Sarah Zielinski‚ smithsonian.com). Maria got a good education at a “school at which her father was the master”
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Defending Conceptions of the Mind What are ideas‚ and where do they come from? Epicurean philosopher Lucretius explains them as a result of the mind focusing on simulacra‚ thin films of atoms released from everything. From a logical standpoint‚ even without taking modern technology into consideration‚ Lucretius’ theory of Simulacra does not hold up well against scrutiny due to the weak foundational assumptions and contradictive information. Lucretius theory of simulacra is that simulacra is made
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On this day‚ the cowboy philosopher and humorist Will Rogers‚ one of the most beloved entertainers of the early 20th century‚ is born on a ranch in Cherokee Indian territory. The son of a venerated commixed-blood Cherokee couple‚ William Penn Adair Rogers grew up riding and roping on the plains of Oklahoma. A nonchalant student‚ he earned only average grades in school‚ but he was by no designates the ill-inculcated mundane man that he later relished to pretend. He was‚ in fact‚ highly literate and
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Political philosophy is an ideal that has been around for hundreds of years. Important questions that political philosophy seeks to examine include‚ “Is the government a clearly disguised thief?” This question is centered on the wealth distribution of society. It also asks “By what right does the government demand our obedience?”; “Why should we obey the state?” and “What is the justification for government?” Political philosophy is related to philosophy because it uses philosophical methods such
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its definition‚ by showing justice in its perfect form in order to discover the true essence of it. Therefore‚ Socrates claims that the only way to have a perfect state is if the state has a perfect leader‚ thus he introduces the concept of the philosopher-king. Plato identifies political justice as harmony in a structured political body. An ideal state consists of three main classes of people: producers‚ auxiliaries‚ and the guardians (rulers); a state is just when relations between these three
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Why does Plato argue that rulers must be philosophers? Word Count: 2147 Philosophers love all truth‚ and hate untruth” (Plato. The Republic). This is the primary remise‚ upon which Plato basis his entire theorem of the philosopher King‚ and the justification for their ascension to power. A recurrent theme within The Republic is the exploration by Plato into what is the ideal society? Is it merely an abstract impossible concept‚ or is there an ideal method of how to organise ourselves into human
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Philosophers and the Bill of Rights The philosophers René Descartes‚ John Locke‚ and Immanuel Kant significantly influence the Bill of Rights. Descartes’ a French philosopher‚ whose ideas where considered to be modern‚ was the father of rationalism and theoretical sequence. His four logics are “avoid precipitation and prejudice in judgment (…) divide up each of the difficulties (…) carry on reflection in due orders‚ and (…) enumerations so complete and reviews so general that I should be certain
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The great philosopher C. S. Lewis once wrote: “They say of some temporal suffering‚ ‘No future bliss can make up for it‚’ not knowing that Heaven‚ once attained‚ will work backwards and turn even that agony into glory” (Keller 34). How can agony and suffering be turned into glory? Suffering is a term that is closely related to the concepts of evil and pain. The verb‚ suffer‚ means to undergo or endure. Suffering is linked with the experience of anguish or misery in which humans are aware of the
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The theory everything moves‚ nothing stays come from a Greek philosopher named Heraclitus. Heraclitus was a Greek philosopher during the sixth century of BCE. However‚ he is better known for the thought that one cannot step into the same river twice. Heraclitus was born in an ancient Greek city located near Asia Minor called Ephesus. Heraclitus was supposedly born into an aristocratic family that was politically powerful. He had given his kingship to his brother to become part of the philosophical
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