PHIL 2001: Homework 1 1. Explain the Hobbesian state of nature and why life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short"? Provide a short (1-2 paragraph) critique of this view. The Hobbesian state of nature is how Hobbes believe mankind would operate without any form of government. This state of nature is incredibly tumultuous, dangerous, and volatile. In Hobbes opinion, humans are naturally prone to conflict. Hobbes also believes that humans are all created equal both intellectually and physically
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Michael Hafner Dr. Samantha Langsdale PHIL 1800 December 2nd, 2015 The Delusion Dilemma Rene Descartes once proposed a tedious accusation about dreaming, and how our senses that we use to perceive what is considered reality should not be trusted fully. In the Meditations on First Philosophy, Descartes attempts to convey the fascinating illusion of always being in a dream without a certain ability to distinguish what is actually reality or what is a dream, or at bare minimum prove that there
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In Marcia Baron’s article, “The Moral Status of Loyalty,” she proposes many ideas concerning loyalty. Loyalty is definitely an essential quality in almost all relationships, including an engineer’s relationship with their employer and society. Baron argues that we can really only show loyalty to specific people, and not to ideals, causes, or people in general, agreeing overall with the opinions and views of John Ladd and Andrew Oldenquist. In this paper, I will argue against Baron’s view. I think
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in the characters and their problems, to feel what they feel, but not be distracted by the filmmaking techniques. The two films we screened in class Bull Durham directed by Ron Shelton, and Field of Dreams based on the novel Shoeless Joe directed by Phil Alden Robinson both demonstrate these film theories throughout their movies but in a very different matter. Bull Durham is a great realistic example of what the sport of baseball means to the men who play it. It's all about the dreams, the desire
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Case Study: Week 1 Franca Thomas PHIL 347: Critical Reasoning Professor Bret Fuller Chamberlain School of Nursing Case Study: Week 1 Identify the main point and the supporting points of each argument: 1. Throughout history, people have disagreed about moral issues. This isn’t true about science, because science is objective, and people can come to objective agreements. If morality is not like science, and science is objective, morality must be subjective. Morality, then, is just
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Question # 1 - Did Phil commit plagiarism? If so, what did he do wrong, and how could he have prevented this problem? Yes, Phil did commit plagiarism. According to the Academic Dishonesty and Plagiarism Policy, students are obligated to summarize, paraphrase, and use quotations to indicate that the content being used originated from another source. Phil failed to follow these guidelines when compiling his paper. Instead, he copied exact text without putting quotation marks around the material which
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-philTitle : a study of morbidity nutrition and socio-economic character of the young smoker and non smoker. Introduction: Smoking is a practice in which a substance most commonly tobacco is burned and the smoke is tested or inhaled. This is primarily practiced as a route of administration for recreational use. The available absorption of tobacco through the lungs. The most common method of smoking today is through cigarettes. Primarily industrially manufactured but also hand rolled from
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Name: Krisha Jean M. Tiedra Date of Birth: 08 June 1995 Place of Birth: Pasay City E-mail address: krishajean18@yahoo.com On the West Philippine Sea Peace is a vital component in a person’s daily life and maintaining inner peace is something that is not as easy as others claim it to have, especially when you are unsure whether your country would be able to keep its relationship peaceful due to threat from another. We can say that many if not all Filipinos are aware about the current problem
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Plato By Dominick Aloysius Tureaud Plato was a thinker, also a man of science, in Classical Greece. He’s thought-about as important figure within the development of philosophy, particularly the Western tradition, and he based the Academy in Athens, the primary establishment of upper learning within the Western world. In conjunction with philosopher and his most known student, Aristotle, Plato arranged the foundations of Western philosophy and science. Alfred North Whitehead once noted: "the safest
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While the question, “to torture or not to torture?” is a valid question; I feel that it is important for man to understand why he is torturing the other. What justifies physically or mentally abusing someone to get information? At what point do we decide for another man that he is or is not worthy of this abuse? Each viewpoint would suggest its own justification for the prisoner. Kant said you should never treat people merely as instruments; never just as means to your own goals. Humans, he says
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