it. This is how I value life, it starts by knowing thy self. This short poem that I made is about a life’s worth of a person. Having knowledge of life running through a person, attaching love and experience to the way of life. One statement made me do it. A statement told by a philosopher named Socrates about life. The most interesting and influential thinker in the fifth century was Socrates, whose dedication to careful reasoning transformed the entire initiative. He pursued genuine knowledge
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Eastern thought, […] is essentially different from common Western approaches because it holds harmony as the end rather than the means of communication”.This reflection includes my comprehension of the concepts attached to statement, my experience to clarify it. The statement
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PHI-112, Summer 2013 The Good Life, Late-Modern vs. Post-Modern Hart, M. J. June 16, 2013 Most of the late-modern philosophers took a completely different view of ethics and a moral society as their predecessors. Aside from Kierkegaard’s deeply religious views, their ideas were to get away from religion being necessary to achieve a good life. The emphasis was one in which people should not think in order to be ethical one must be religious. This seemed
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Pre-Socratic Period Thales of Miletus Background: Thales of Miletus (fl. c. 585 BC) is regarded as the father of philosophy. Thales of Miletus was considered one of the Seven Wise Men of ancient Greece. Thales was the first of the Greek natural philosophers and founder of the Ionian school of ancient Greek thinkers. Works/Writings/Philosophy: His is said to have measured the Egyptian pyramids and to have calculated the distance from shore of ships at sea using his knowledge of geometry. He
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for themselves what their function may be. In the Republic Plato discusses the proper use of function of man. It is his soul and to live with justice, and obtain a sense of harmony and unity. Lisa H. Newton stated,“in the greatest of all works of philosophy, Plato offers an elegant proof of the proposition: that whether or not the world recognizes and rewards virtue, the just person is the happiest of human beings.” However, I find in today’s society that most just people are not the wealthiest people
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ways restrictive and it can be argued that they fail to be applicable to modern ethical issues. However to say that they are exempt from providing any form of solution to modern ethical issues is a failing in the understanding of his ethics. The statement itself must be broken down, particularly the word ‘restrictive’, which indicates some form of limitation in Kant’s approach, specifically towards euthanasia. This presents us as philosophers with problems as, even prior to any ethical approach, the
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could be added. According to James Fieser “The field of ethics (or moral philosophy) involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong behavior.” So again it all comes to the individual’s views and opinions of their set morals.
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be informed why these areas were chosen and what the benefits of this training will do for the officers and the community. Ethics and Professional Behavior in the Administration of Criminal Justice “Ethics, also known as moral philosophy, is a branch of philosophy concerned with the study of questions of right and wrong and how we ought to live. Ethics involves making moral judgments about what is right or wrong, good or bad. Right and wrong are qualities or moral judgments we assign to actions
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Unit 1 Individual Marion Nina Scuderi AIU Unit 1 Individual Metaphysics is the part of philosophy that studies existence. What is real? This is a question that really gets people thinking. How do you know what is real and what is not? Many people only believe what they can see or touch. They don’t believe if there isn’t written proof. So when we talk about whether there is a physical world more or less real than a spiritual or psychological world, I believe that each person
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In deontology I agree with the concept ‘the good will’ and the philosophy of human nature, and I disagree with the universal law; categorical and hypothetical imperatives seem like definitions so I find myself agree with their statements. Although my views are a bit skewed with the different aspects of deontology, I find myself somewhat agreeing with the overall concept of the action being a main focus
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