associated with people or humanity” and “having the nature and attributes of a human being”. These definitions visibly do not illustrate what it really means to be a human. Aristotle believed that humans are rational beings and that all living entities have souls, which they can use for reasoning, comprehending and pursuing knowledge. Kant expanded this slightly by claiming that any entity, natural or mechanical, that can reason is human any human that has a good will is a moral being. Hegel added
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conception of participation 14. Plato’s theory of ideas: the allegory of the cave 15. Plato’s theory of ideas: the ideal state 16. Aristotle: syllogisms 17.Hylomorphism: substance and its components 18. Aristotle: the four causes: what is the sense of final cause? 19. Aristotle: the theory of virtue (Golden Mean) 20. Aristotle: what does it mean to be a political animal? 21. The existence of God: ontological argument as formulated by St. Anselm 22. The existence
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*This task contains portions of material that was originally submitted during the 1303B Session in Composition and Critical Thinking with William Cramer and during the DB Phase 2 of 1401A session in Ethics for Professionals with Siamak Pourayan. PHIL301-1401A-04: Ethics for Professionals Individual Project 2 LaShonda M. Canada January 25, 2014 Abstract The Bible states in Proverbs 14:12, “There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.” (NIV) The Bible
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rights to women, and other divisions of society, in demand to make just as many opportunities obtainable to this faction, as there are available to the ‘common white man.’ Perpetuated thoughts against this argument have branched from days as early as Aristotle and other celebrated philosophers. Times are progressing toward more equality in this area, however; in order to present these basic human rights to women, a specific law had to be put in affect. The passing of this edict also came along with many
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women’s bodies, hair, and face must be covered at all times outside of the home when other cultures do not. Not every culture has the same beliefs. 2. Aristotle’s theory of Hylomorphism: The theory of Hylomorphism is Aristotle concept of people being both form and matter. Aristotle thought of form as the physical appearance (body) and the matter to be what the object consists of (soul). An example would be pavement. The unhardened clay would be the matter. The matter changes form when the clay hardens
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Ethical Approaches Four Ethical Approaches Four Ethical Approaches- By Buie Seawell, Daniels College of Business, University of Denver There are many ways to define "ethics," almost as many as there are ethicists. For our purposes, let's use this definition: Ethics is the discipline and practice of applying value to human behavior (as well as to the constructs of human culture particularly to morality, customs and laws) resulting in meaningfulness. From the earliest moments of recorded
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Aesthetic Value vs. Catharsis Robert Rauschenberg was a young, abstract expressionist, artist in his twenties, who wanted to experiment with creating emptiness with drawling. He approached Willem De Kooning, a famous Dutch American artist, for one of his drawling’s. Rauschenberg then took the drawling and eraded most of it only leaving a ghost of the drawling that was previously there. He titled it “Erased de Kooning”. A Kantian viewer’s would judge the “Erased de Kooning” as a loss of aesthetic
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Bentham, another utilitarian thinker, I assume would go about the situation the same way Mill would, only Bentham would inquire about the number of people affected no matter the distance. Bentham would also look at how much unhappiness is prevented vs caused. As Bentham believed that pain and pleasure are entirely quantitative. In today’s society, in enlightened countries at
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Grace Chin Paper #2 Intro to Philosophy, Phil-2-2503 Dr. Fjeld October 7, 2010 The Unbridgeable Gap Over centuries, the epistemological gap has been an issue of debate and controversy among deep philosophical thinkers. This very gap refers to the gap between “subject” and “object”, and it is this very gap that provoked the question of true objectivity. Can we reach true objectivity and in essence, know an object in itself? Although many philosophers found their own ways of bridging the
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important moral principle in resolving issues of poverty, by employing fundamental arguments and supporting frameworks to contribute to this conclusion. Ethical grounds for my arguments shall be explored, such as theories propounded by Aristotle, Bentham, Stuart Mill and Kant, in order to support the framework and provide supporting claims. Education and the opportunities that learning environments provide, are fundamental to the measurable successes and accomplishments within our modern day society
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