Engaged Buddhism in Asia Pg. 379-381 People from the western world think of Buddhism as a religion where people take the time to look at one’s self but in modern Asia this is not so where the Buddhist liberation movement is working to achieve equality among people and to provide them with basic needs as much as it means taking the time to think about one’s self. This focus on one’s self is where things such as karma and ignorance is placed second to focus on things such as greed hatred and new methods
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Abstract This paper seeks a philosophical insight of democracy in general and American democracy in particular by unfolding the paradoxes entailed to whittle a credible conclusion. It attempts to explore contradictions of democracy whether democracy is a best system of governance? Is true democracy possible? Has it to be moral in character? Why other systems of governance tend to challenge the basic fabrics of democracy? Why democracy has turned out to be more productive than other forms of government
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ISIS’ CATACLYSMISM: A PHILOSOPHICAL APPRAISAL By Dominic E.B. Anyalagbuna 1. ABSTRACT: The very inhumane hazards of the so-called Islamic militant group named ISIS are indeed highly cataclysmic! However, this paper is faced with the problem of undertaking a philosophical examination of the named group. This, the paper does, using the critical-evaluative method by considering their history, aims and activities. Upon this examination, this work discovers that, among other relevant theories, this
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Applying the Potter Box to Merck’s Actions Regarding the Painkiller Vioxx Rod Carveth, Marywood University Claire Ferraris, Western Oregon University Nick Backus, Western Oregon University Abstract In this paper we demonstrate how to focus an empirical application in reaching an ethical decision by working with the Potter Box, a model created by Ralph Potter as an analytical tool assessing the ethics of corporate decision-making, The facts emerging in news accounts regarding lawsuits against the
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from the early 1980’s “Style Wars,” “From Mambo” dashes by, driven by tempo that varies through the decades. Mambo and hip-hop are the type of dissolving pot experience that New York stirs and heats. Their ancestry is African, refracted through the Caribbean and the town. In their early stages styles also replicated, and disregarded, the ghetto rank and economic worsening of the South Bronx. Mambo was instinctive, refined music that came out after the World War II as Cuban techniques were singled
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dualism and self-enlightenment that had certain Christian aspects. Augustine, in pursuit of religion and ultimately meaning in his life, started practicing with the Manichees. Augustine was a susceptible target of the teachings of Manichaeism. A philosophical gnosticism like Manichaeism was so appealing to Augustine because it offered a new found wisdom that was centered around self fulfillment and wisdom, whereas Christianity deterred him because it emphasized humility and self-sacrifice.
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That is personal experiences, previously formed perceptions of the world, and background cultures are what makes someone who they are and it can never come without bias or influence from the world around them. But that is what makes each experience and transformation that a work of art induces unique and dramatic. This process of interpretation is what is important and essential for
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influential artists, designers and architects of the century. The Vienna Circle was a group consisting mostly of non-philosophers, who met weekly for discussion of philosophical issues. These informal meetings brought about the birth of logical empiricism, a movement which set the agenda for philosophy in America after the second world war. Herbert Feigl, Otto Neurath and Rudolph Carnap, central participants in the Vienna Circle, gave public lectures at the Bauhaus beginning in summer of 1929
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Sungas-BAriga. PREFACE A few words about the overall objectives of the course is appropriate as a starting point. Historically, philosophy was the first form of theoretical knowledge. As a rational theoretical tool of comprehending the world, philosophy arose in ancient Greece in stiff battle with mythology and religious consciousness. It came out to lay the foundation for the evolvement of scientific consciousness and the emergence and development of the sciences - Mathematics, Astronomy
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However, although cognitive psychology is related to all human activity rather than a few segments of it, the apprehension is that it is from a specific point of view yet other viewpoints are evenly justifiable and essential. The Interdisciplinary Perspective & Emergence of Cognitive Psychology As well as being part of psychology as a whole, cognitive psychology is also part of the more general interdisciplinary subject of cognitive science. Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary study of psyche
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