Patriotism In Professional Sports-AWA Issues-Scholarly Important
GRE AWA ISSUES WITH ANSWERS - VERY IMPORTANT
Present your perspective on the issue below, using relevant reasons and/or examples to support your views.
"Patriotic reverence for the history of a nation often does more to impede than to encourage progress."
• Love and support for one's country is a good thing. Must be understood that no country is perfect and it can become better. In this way, patriotism can impede progress.
• Patriotism can be taken too far, if Americans only purchased American cars, this would allow american car companies to become more anticompetative.
• American manufacturers need competition to stay strong.
• Patriotism can be confused with nationalism. This might encourage people to become more close minded …show more content…
Gathering more financial knowledge may only lead to more confusion
2. Cons:
1. How can we know the limits of knowledge until we have thoroughly tested the limits through empirical observation?
2. Opposed to scientific method – we can only know what we observe
1. Example: physics, better understanding of the nature of matter through increased precision of measurement
3. Two levels of understanding – the facts we gather from experiments vs. understanding what these facts mean
4. In professional sports -- a "professional field", it is more important to gain a thorough understanding of the rules and techniques regarding a given sport than it is to determine the limits of knowledge and understanding, which do not exist as the game has already been defined and there are no areas of ambiguity in the rules. Although some calls of violations to the rules of the game may be questioned, the rules of the game are perfectly defined.
5. Conclusion: A more precise definition of knowledge is needed.
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"The concept of 'individual responsibility' is a necessary fiction. Although societies must hold individuals accountable for their own actions, people's behavior is largely determined by forces not of their own
Present your perspective on the issue below, using relevant reasons and/or examples to support your views.
"Patriotic reverence for the history of a nation often does more to impede than to encourage progress."
• Love and support for one's country is a good thing. Must be understood that no country is perfect and it can become better. In this way, patriotism can impede progress.
• Patriotism can be taken too far, if Americans only purchased American cars, this would allow american car companies to become more anticompetative.
• American manufacturers need competition to stay strong.
• Patriotism can be confused with nationalism. This might encourage people to become more close minded …show more content…
Gathering more financial knowledge may only lead to more confusion
2. Cons:
1. How can we know the limits of knowledge until we have thoroughly tested the limits through empirical observation?
2. Opposed to scientific method – we can only know what we observe
1. Example: physics, better understanding of the nature of matter through increased precision of measurement
3. Two levels of understanding – the facts we gather from experiments vs. understanding what these facts mean
4. In professional sports -- a "professional field", it is more important to gain a thorough understanding of the rules and techniques regarding a given sport than it is to determine the limits of knowledge and understanding, which do not exist as the game has already been defined and there are no areas of ambiguity in the rules. Although some calls of violations to the rules of the game may be questioned, the rules of the game are perfectly defined.
5. Conclusion: A more precise definition of knowledge is needed.
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"The concept of 'individual responsibility' is a necessary fiction. Although societies must hold individuals accountable for their own actions, people's behavior is largely determined by forces not of their own