On the other hand, the second major problem with the current translation is specific to Yoga Sutra and is largely attributed to the failure to make clear distinctions between Yoga and other Indian school of philosophies such as Advaita Vedanta and Sankhya. Ranganathan The new translation of Yoga Sutra not only elaborates the moral and →
Kant establishes that a priori knowledge is possible by arguing the mind structures experiences and we can come to know things from this structure. By using the knowledge of synthetic a priori in the concept of geometry, Kant explained that space is nothing but a form of the faculty of intuition.
When we have ambitions that are limited, this can make us go into negative vices to get the happiness that we seek. We have the capacity to make our happiness.
I want to inspire the future generation to make the world a better place.b. When I become a teacher, I hope to change the lives of each and every student.q.
In the utilitarian point of view, the best thing for the most people is to let her make the decision not to be admitted to the hospital and have the new chemotherapy regime. The decision to prolong life: ethical perspectives of a clinical dilemma.
Therefore, this argument involves the fallacy of red herring as it shows that there is no importance of abolishing the " Three Strikes" laws as Suarez still Support that since its introduction of " Three Strikes' laws violent crime incidences has dropped although not completely deterred hence these laws should not be abolished. Therefore, involves →
Love is something that makes us feel appreciated, helps develop character, and gives us a reason to live. Love is the greatest gift that we can give to someone because it is freely given and freely received.
This is a fallacy of tradition. This is a fallacy of generalisation.
Nietzsche asserts that the slaves find happiness in the unhappiness of the masters, resulting in a sense of " Slave Morality" that challenges the hierarchical terms of what is good or bad, and puts a face behind the oppressed." The real genius of the slave rebellion, according to Nietzsche, is in it is going beyond →
Philosophy, Essay In the Preface, one gets the clincher for what the book, " Theres No Such Thing As " Business" Ethics: Theres Only One Rule For Making Decisions," by John C. Winning is the goal but it cannot be the be-all and end-all of life and by sacrificing ethics and integrity.
The second category of the sales force of the company is the Key Account Managers. Jacobson found out that the stagnation of the sales of the Boston branch is mainly due to the unreasonable demands of their client.
Lord Krishna points out to Arjuna that he is the force behind the creation of the universe. Lord Krishna points out that the two forces of life and death are not the same as the beginning and the end.
The aim of this observation was to find out the practical impact of the two theories in GrameenPhone and describe in which issues these two theories has failed to make an substantial impact also GrameenPhone's level of adaptation of Maslow and Lock's Theory. So it is clear that a GrameenPhone Employee has better probability to →
What is the history and importance of this text for the tradition? First is that Laozi was an official in the imperial archives and a contemporary of Confucius.
One is concerned with the innocent fetus being killed for the sake of convenience, the other concerned with the health of young women who would maim themselves in an attempt to perform an unsafe illegal abortion. The problem is that those opposed to legal, safe abortion make a habit out of dismissing reality.
In Plato's meritocracy, a child of the king does not have to rule if he or she is unfit to have a political power. The Guardians has a heart of bronze and silver which meant that they have the physical capability and also the intellectual prowess to rule.
The ideology is built on the status of the state and the government at large. On the other hand, the interests of the minority among the people in the society will not be supported.
Determinism eliminates entirely the existence of free will and freedom of individual choice. That said, it is likely that human behavior is guided by a mixture of things, biological imperatives, unconscious instincts, and the choices that they make.
I want to become a competent Radiologic Technologist, and be a part of a significant team of medical experts who are devoted to give wellbeing and health to hundreds of suffering patients I was motivated to pursue the domain of medicine by a wish to positively influence the lives of people. As I am a →
Next, Plato elaborates on the concept of " the being"; for him, there is an element of intelligibility and visibility in all forms of the being and one needs to have the power to grasp what is intelligible and what is visible in each form of the being. Belief and imaging contribute to opinion whereas →
When I was not concern with The Meaning of Life, I was content. It would be the heaviest pebble I should ever keep as I experienced a moment too soon in my adolescence that there was no meaning in life.
The world will be far more globalized in the future. In a highly globalized world, equitable distribution of resources will provide future people with more equality of opportunities, growth and development.
Health, acquisition, self-respect, independency, and originative enterprises are defined as little more than the public presentation of the establishments which claim to function these terminals, and their betterment is made to depend on apportioning more resources to the direction of infirmaries, schools, and other bureaus in inquiry." Ivan Illich Deschooling Society The pupil is finally →
The curriculum is the diagram that encompasses the philosophy into the objectives of the lessons. For the realist, the world is as it is, and the job of schools is to teach students about the world.
For existence of effective communication to between the sender and the recipient, it is important to understand the motions that succeed the information. Combination of set of skills such as nonverbal communication, thoughtful listening, stress management in the moment, and the ability to recognize and understand ones own emotions and those of the person you →
At the outset of the book itself, Hyde tries to explore the way the philosophers like Edmund Burke and David Hume have delineated with the idea of perfection and through the general comprehension of the terms like " proper", " beauty" and " eloquent" one can easily find the way perfection is related with the →
The object of moral evaluation is a quality of mind, which in fact is a character trait. As we learn to delineate our moral sentiments, a resultant of our contemplation of other's traits, we can categorize them from the pleasure or discomfort we feel toward a trait of action.
Reasons for the forgetfulness of the question of being In the early years, anyone who persisted in questioning the concept was faulted with an error of method. First, the concept of being is universal; the understanding of the concept encompasses all that is being.
of Kierkegaard Soren Kierkegaard speaks of existence through three stages of life: the aesthetic, the ethical and the religious. It is not necessary for the aesthete to pass through the ethical stage before reaching the religious state of Christianity, and vice versa although an individual may exist through both stages in the course of his →
Leadership Philosophy Leadership Philosophy Introduction According to Posner and Kouzes, leadership refers to the ability of an individual to influence the behaviors of his/her subordinates towards achievement of a particular goal and objective. Get out of the office For a leader, it is vital to expose the employees in other areas of concern outside the →
The interaction between philosophy and science is brought to the fore in Russell's work " The Value of Philosophy". The knowledge it aims at is the kind of knowledge which gives unity and system to the body of science, and the one which results from a critical examination of the grounds of our conviction, prejudices, →
One of the things that motivated the decision maker in this case study was that some of the customers who had made a reservation might have failed to turn up. This was not the only motivation that made the decision maker to make the decision of giving away a room that was already reserved for →
The culture-bound syndromes is said to coexist with a range of psychiatric disorders and the comorbidity question brings culture-bound syndrome research in with current approaches in the psychiatric research. This addition can give researchers the chance to study the relationship between culture-bound syndromes and psychiatric diagnoses.
s In book X of The Republic, Socrates turns to the question regarding poetry and poses arguments convincingly concerning why they are perceived as dangerous for the city. Secondly, the images that these poets betray are often the worst form of soul, thereby neglecting the virtuous part of the soul; which evidently diverts the energy →
This is based on the strong relationship between the two the philosophers during the birth and progression of philosophy. The Relationship Between Socrates and Plato.n.d.Web.
Chapter 12 of Of Sin and Merit, entitled " The Law Could Not Take Away Sin," begins " Observe also what follows. Having said, " In which all have sinned," he at once added, " For until the law, sin was in the world".[Romans5: 13] This means that sin could not be taken away even →
The fact that a lot of people are willingly participating in this class exercise, therefore, directly correlates to the fact that they must be obtaining mutual benefit from this action. The agreement to give the class a chance with no promise of benefiting in itself shows the optimism in the exercise.
And the children, in their turn, will be common, and neither will a parent know his own offspring, nor a child his parent." Rousseau firmly disagrees with Plato" s view on family. A mother gives birth to her child and according to Rousseau it is only natural for the mother to nurse the child herself.
In another study, the researchers found that music that contained speech had significant active effects on the participants' ability to perform tasks. Although these studies found different results for gender and the frequency of listening to the type of music presented in the study, the results still indicated that music helped their performance.
Matter in nature refers to the make-up of a being; that which a being, let's say X, is made or composed of. It is what is seen and judged to be the nature of a being.
This is a derived idea from the argument of Immanuel Kant in his work, An Answer to the Question: " What is Enlightenment?" This restriction is the reason why humans behave as they are: they need a harmoniousenvironmentwithin themselves as a pursuit of individual community of well-being, freedom and safety. To Kant, this principle of →
The two main characters offer two different views of the world in the concentration camp. The purpose of the two beliefs in the film is to develop the plot of the film.
It begins with Lincoln Six Echo waking up in what appears to be a very sterile facility, he is surrounded by shades of grey and white and as he is preparing for his day, there are sensors and screenings that analyze his body chemistry and subsequently report to the rest of the faculty that he →
The meditation process was the basic rule of formulating an undoubted knowledge where the truth of ideas were in full clarity since this was what came from a divine God and who could however not deceive. According to him, God was the eminent being that existed in the inner soul of the human beings.
I apply my philosophy of life by trying my best to follow the commandments, and when I realize that I have done wrong, I repent and ask God for forgiveness. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself." I try my best to apply this philosophy to my life.
This gives the reader a richer and clearer view of how Confucianism functioned in the past and of what it means in the present". Another aspect from the book states, " In the light of this expansion of the understanding of religion, more and more western scholars tend to think of Confucianism in terms of →
Postmodernism of Metanarratives Work The postmodern condition of Metanarratives work is most attributed to Jean-Francois Lyotard as the pioneer of post modernism. A summary of a number of points from his work and an emphasis on the postmodern condition will prove essential to understanding the trouble behind Metanarratives according to Lyotard.
His quest for the perfect description of self and society leads him to many arguments and finally to his conclusion that the self and the city should be governed quite similarly, by a hierarchy of systematic components. It is within this balance that Socrates believes justice to be found in both examples of the self →
Right to Die Rachel's Use of Golden Rule in Deciding Euthanasia Issue Rachel's use of golden rule entails discussions on the morality of Euthanasia. Therefore, according to Rachel's arguments and use of the golden rule, Euthanasia only applies when one person admits to treating the other with the same measure as he or she receives →
The topic of the nature and existence of God focuses on the actions of God and his intentions. The discussion of how God made the world and all that lives in it forms an essential aspect of the topic of God's nature and existence.
With all the concepts constituting human nature, I believe there are several flaws in the determination of the core of all human beings. The sole characteristics of what I tend to believe in the consists of human nature; I personally believe are part of what is making it improbable to determine if there exist any →
Thus, it must be noted that any dialogue is exchange of opinions, but one of the essential parts of this process is also the presence of a certain party that is willing to articulate its position. Another important element of the process of speaking for others is the negative impact that this practice has on →
In his book of confessions he states that committing greed and gluttony brought joy to him. He struggled with the limitations towards sexual intentions, which included him to be faithful to his significant other and live a monogamous lifestyle.
Please do NOT feel you have to choose one of the topics above, pick any area that is of interest to you. As I said, I would pick a topic first, but you do not have to be like me and it does not win you any extra points if you are!
The mechanistic movement in the late years of the Renaissance made Aristotle create a distinct line between the physical sciences and mathematics. Aristotle considered the knowledge of geometry and arithmetic calculations to be the most important of the mathematical sciences.
Philosophy What I Learned Major Lessons Learned Basic directions of philosophical thought were formed in Ancient Greece, so I will mention Socrates' and Aristotle's ideas as most important that I have learned. Aristotle's confidence in importance of practice for human well-being's another idea I want to admit.
A Clocwork Orange The application of morality in the movie A Clocwork Orange is evident I n the definition of goodness inaddition to the rightful use of goodness to the sensible application to aversion therapy with the aim of stopping immoral behaviors. The role of fate is evident with the main character of this film, →
Fair is foul and foul is fair" is a paradox you will see time and again in the play Macbeth. Actually, it is completely opposite to what I thought.
Through a description of the success/failure of the speech act purported, which is explained as a violation/observation of the felicity conditions, Austin formulated a method to describe a sentence in terms of the speech situation where it is uttered: by means of associated linguistic conventions, the speaker, with an associated intention, actually performs an act →
Therefore, Wittgenstein would say that religion is a form of life, and therefore religious language has meaning in the lebensform of religion. To conclude, the meaning of religious language should be treated as a subjective matter.
In places such as long lines in the market and in jams, I will always fight against those negative thoughts that tell me to overtake others in the line, and it makes me to tolerate the long lines and become patient. This means that being good sets a good example for others to emulate and →
For giving a room to Liz Borden, Paige Lewis violated the duty-based ethics or deontological ethics, which was premised on " the right motive is " to do the right thing", " to do one's duty", " to respect the moral law". Paige Lewis has full knowledge that it is her responsibility to abide by →
I also understand that each child learns differently, and not every child is the same, and it's my job as a teacher to accommodate them to the best of my ability and create an environment where children feel comfortable to ask questions or voice their opinions. I believe this will be a very positive attribute →
In contrast, inclinations and obligations define the role and responsibility that one has towards the society and their friends. Even so, while the society cannot hold a person accountable for moral obligations or inclinations, they are accountable for their goodwill, because it is often under a person's control.
To say that we ever completely know something is almost ignorant to the fact that nothing is known to this point in existence. I believe James portrays the opinion that we can only know what is for certain in a weak way and this will cause some people to fall of the boat for him.
Descartes's concept of Hyperbolic doubt Descarte's need to address issues via his technique of doubt rendered him to thisindomitable strategy of " hyperbolic doubt", whereby he set a basis for considering false any belief that is a victim to any slightest doubt. One of the major benefits is that the universal application of the concept →
Scot's Principle of Symmetry Scot is the social construction of Technology in which the developmental process of a technological artifact is described as an alteration of variation and selection. It misses the thrust of our argument that the " successful" stages in the development are not the only possible ones since historians should ensure →
In Petrarch's How a Ruler Ought to Govern His Sate and Machiavelli's The Prince, both philosophers possess different opinions on how a ruler ought to govern. In this chapter Machiavelli is suggesting that a good ruler cannot be virtuous at all times because it would not be in the best interest of the people.
By dint of his dignified teachings, dedication to the human cause and devotion to spreading the splendid message of peace, equality, justice, truthfulness, chastity, kindness, and purity of heart and mind, the great personality has left indelible imprints of his wonderful thoughtfulness and unique philosophy for the future generations to come. Being the symbol of →
Thereby the fact that this pet is a cat is an absolute truth. The thing that this person has a pet that is a cat is the absolute truth.
The same line of argument is followed, where the oneness and the perfection of the Supreme Being are emphasized, but after a point we notice that the effort is diverted into explaining the Christian doctrine of the Trinity, so that God is said to be three persons in one substance, and yet indivisibly one. The →
The paper " Leadership of Malcolm X and Gandhi as Shown in the Movies" is an engrossing version of an essay on biographies. In showing this, the movie makes good use of real footage from Malcolm X's pilgrimage to Makkah and meetings with other Muslim political leaders.
Glaucon asks Socrates and the others to find a way to prove that justice is something that should be sought after to the point where it is desired in and of itself and for whatever consequences may arise. In Book II of Plato's Republic, he also discusses the principles of education, and how it plays →
In his quest of finding the true essence of the human psyche and the pursuit of the maintenance of the soul, Plato has philosophized through the teachings of Socrates within various concepts such as: Metaphysics " Platonic realism", Theory of Forms". It is Plato's belief that the material world as it seems to us is →
For example, the checkmarks can be used to conduct a quick poll and the hand icon can beused to raise your hand to ask a question. The tool marked T for example, can be used to type text on the eBoard, Import allows the user to import an image, picture or graphic, and Enable allows →
Some of the branches and their areas of focus in include the following, epistemology this is the study of nature and knowledge. The final branch of philosophy include the logics, this involves precise reasoning to determine the components of good and bad reasoning in addition to determining the effectiveness of reasoning.
The one point that I agree from the debate is that America is faced with the challenge of modern times in the form of global terrorism and other non stake actors. Describe one point that you disagreed with from the debate and why.
Also, the concept of images being considered a form of idolatry in Protestantism would probably also have appealed to Martin Luther. 2 Finally, Martin Luther probably would not have liked the emphasis on spiritual formation because there would be, to him, a lack of forcefulness in or focus on Catholic preaching.
For one to find the reason and worth of his life, this statement emphatically asks one to examine himself first and after that others in the society to find the meaning and happiness of life. If one is not evaluating his life, he will not have the capacity to gain from his past mistakes and →
Injustice Introduction Thrasymachus, Glaucon, and Adeimantus all argue to prove that justice is a bondage that people choose to avoid suffering the punishment of injustice. Injustice is as a practise of free will that satisfies the body, unlike justice that is a bondage of something more.
He terms the factor that is responsible for the dignity in mankind, the factor X. In fact, the concept of factor X is relevant to the person's beliefs.
That report you are compiling on the number of applications you process or the number of products manufactured may be important only to you. Related: As hard as you strive to be productive during the workweek, there are inevitable distractions and time-wasters.
Yet the city still retained vestiges of the past, with many obsolete yet historic buildings scattered around the city. And yet, in spite of all these advancements, the human race envisioned something better than themselves creatingartificial intelligencein order to decrease the woes of manual labor.
Important information on book IV of the Republic The book is about the lifestyle of the guardians and the overall assessment of the as a whole. The book also discusses the definition of justice through Socrates, who says that justice is fulfilling one's role applicably and giving back to the city what is due.
In this case Pierce advises that one should think accordingly on how he or she is inclined to think and not be bound by a set of principles that are based on calculations. Descartes first and second meditation imply that external factors like other people's interpretation of an opinion affect a person's belief on that →
In fact we must try to do good things to those who wrong us so that we can teach them to do the right things also. Socrates urges us to scan the situation and so that we can make objective decisions that do not worsen the situation.
It is argued that one of the main weaknesses is that it does not tell a person what to do due to the inconclusive and subjective nature of the doctrine of the mean. In contrast, it is argued by many that Philippa Foot is considered a much more successful enhancer of Virtue ethics, as Foot →
The principle of utility which forms the cornerstone of utilitarianism states that the degree to which an act increases people's happiness, or minimizes their pain, is the measure of morality, and such does not involve the motives or intentions of the agent. As the principle of utility explains, the motivation of a person is doing →
However, Heidegger's interpretation has attracted more relevance, as a way of ones involvement with and caring for the immediate world that frames his life; whilst remaining alive to the contingent element of that involvement, the priority of the world to the self, and the evolutionary nature of the self itself. In this sense " Being" →
And as William Shakespeare once asked, to be or not to be, that is the question. On the other hand, it's arguably civil that it's better to be done wrong than to do it yourself.
Oppositely, I constantly reveal the strong and the weak sides of every classical concept I am talking about, and in this way with my own example, I impose the tradition of a critical thinking among student. Thus, I encourage students to make connections between a topic and their day-to-day life experiences and " take advantages →
Preview Statement: In order to gain a better understanding, we must first examine the history of where they originated, then we can focus on where and how they are used today, and finally discuss the elements used when writing one. Body It is important to know the history of eulogies as it gives us an →
The first one is the moral virtue, which refers to the assets of our character and includes a person's appetites, actions, and emotions. Of course, the people with the excellent health are the best and the goal is to be very close to that one extreme.
This paper gives a brief, but exhaustive analysis of the theme of the futility of human efforts as observed in the lives of Jumpei, the young widow and the rest of the society. As fate would have it, Jumpei finds himself spending the night in a lonely and inaccessible sand pit in which he is →
The 2018 Face Recognition Vendor Test showed a clear deterioration in the results of face recognition algorithms for the less-constrained/non-cooperative scenarios. On the other hand, the quality of a probe image during recognition is also employed to improve system performance.
The idea of the republic is that it will give all people a chance to live equally according to their unique talents and abilities. All children, boys and girls, had the same treatment and education from their caregivers that way and were given equal opportunity to prove what they were capable of.