This class will be the first philosophy class I have ever taken. My definition of philosophy is simply the quest for greater understanding of knowledge and wisdom. I feel philosophy allows people to expand their minds and dig deeper into their thoughts and feelings. In everyday life people are on an endless journey to acquire more knowledge and wisdom. Most people that attend post secondary schools often do so to acquire knowledge in order to advance their careers, while others go through continuing
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European Philosopher PHI/105 03-12-12 Jason Chang Letter to a European Philosopher Dear Mr. Kierkegaard, I have read about your philosophy and I have to tell that I am inclined to disagree with your findings on the individual’s sickness-to-death because of having to make rational and ethical decisions throughout life. While I must agree that it is not easy and it does bring much stress
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There are deliberations that Socrates is supporting civil disobedience in the Apology, but in the Crito his extensive argument demonstrates that he is supporter of strict obedience to the Laws. In the Apology, Socrates argues that he is not guilty of breaking any law by not retrieving Leon of Salamis (32d). He adds that he would not obey the court if they find him guilty and order him to stop philosophizing (29d). On the other hand, Socrates states that every moral citizen should abide by the law
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Assisted Suicide: Governmental or Personal Decision? Assisted suicide is a widely argued ethical issue. A lot of the debate on this subject stems from either different viewpoints of when this act is appropriate, or what the resulting consequences would be if such an act were ever permissible. The point mostly debated between opposing sides is life-worth. What constitutes a life worth living and who is to ultimately decide this? The main problem with this question is that suffering cannot be measured
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Plato was a philosopher who was born in Athens (470- 390 BCE), and was also a student of Socrates. He felt that intelligence and one’s perception belonged to completely independent realms or realties. He believed that general concepts of knowledge were predestined, or placed in the soul before birth even occurred in living things. Plato believed that the cosmos was intelligible, and that the universe was mathematically understandable. He believed that mathematical objects could be seen as perfect
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Catalina works for a regional sales branch of a large pharmaceutical company. Individual employees as well as the entire branch receive incentive packages if they reach certain sales goals. If a sales rep meets his or her individual goals, he or she receives a large bonus check at the end of the year. Likewise, if all the sales reps meet their goals, the entire branch receives brand new equipment, vacation packages, and larger bonuses. It is two weeks until the end of the fiscal year, when reps
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Despite his contributions to the foundations of philosophy as we have known today, it is a cruel irony that at 70 years old, Socrates was convicted to death for allegedly corrupting the youth’s minds. He was also convicted for not believing in the gods of the state and for speaking with contempt to the high ranking officials of his time (Ober “Gadfly on Trial” 2). The accounts of his trials were written by his avid and equally popular student Plato in Apology (Colaiaco 17). In Apology, he quoted:
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to appropriate in the realm of education. In part, this is because he said little explicitly about education, except for one scathing comparison between schools and penitentiaries. Asaresult,mostofwhatcanbe gleaned for the purposes of educational philosophy and practice must be constructed from related analyses of his work. One commonly hears that Foucault’s work is too removed from the real doings of people, too tied to linguistics, too abstract to be
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Justice has always been an interesting topic for philosophers and also for ordinary people. Justice can be defined briefly as “the fairness in the way that people are treated” (Collins Cobuild, p. 910). Plato and Aristotle, two leading figures of ancient Greek civilization, were earliest philosophers who thought about justice and developed theories about the sublime aspects of being just. This assignment is an attempt to prove that pursuing a life of justice would make living more worthwhile than
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DEPARTMENT OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES AND ARABIC COURSE: POSTMODERN PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION ASSIGNMENT 1 (SEMESTER 2) Write a short essay on Martin Heidegger’s philosophy. Also refer to the possible implications of Heidegger’s philosophy for religious thinking. Introduction The following essay will examine Martin Heidegger’s philosophy and its possible implications for religious thinking. Heidegger is one of the first major post-modern philosophers
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