Week 7 Tuesday‚ February 18 Plantinga—“The Free Will Defense” pgs. 157-160 Hick—“The Soul-Making Defense” pgs. 160-164 Essay assignment 8: Essay question 5 on pg. 165 Thursday‚ February 20 Plato—“Euthyphro” pgs. 484-485 Rachels—“The Challenge of Cultural Relativism” (available under ‘Course Materials’ on Blackboard) Essay assignment 9: Essay question 4 on pg. 489 Week 8 Tuesday‚ February 25 Catch-up/Review FREE WILL AND TIME TRAVEL Thursday‚ February 27 Taylor—“Freedom
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rapidly Chamber and Symphonic music 1815-1827 (3rd Period) Starts to lose his hearing around 2nd period‚ he can still hear just losing his ability to hear String quartets were considered decades ahead of his time Romantic Music and the concept of Dualism Music vs. words Individual vs. crowds Professional vs. amateur (concert hall vs. home) Man vs. Nature (city vs. country) Science vs. irrational Materialism vs. idealism (capitalism vs. Marxism) Nationalism vs. internationalism Tradition
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Unless‚ the author of a text is physically in front of the reader explaining her intentions at the moment of writing‚ the reader is the only one who is able to give meaning to the text. Rosenblatt (1993) rejects this dualism by explaining that the writer exhibits an aesthetic stance while writing her piece trying to bring as many clues as possible for the reader‚ however‚ the text could be interpreted from aesthetic or an efferent stance. The reader could enjoy reading complex mathematical theorems
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William Faulkner William Cuthbert Faulkner was a Mississippi born novelist‚ who was a quiet and private man who once observed‚ “It is my ambition to be‚ as a private individual‚ abolished and voided from society.” Known for his distinctive voice and his evocative depictions of life in the American South‚ Nobel laureate William Faulkner is recognized as one of the most important authors of the twentieth century. The myth of Yoknapatawpha Yoknapatawpha is a fictional place created by
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1.|A car driver’s ability to navigate a familiar route while carrying on an animated conversation with passengers best illustrates the importance of:| A)|dualism.| B)|REM rebound.| C)|the hidden observer.| D)|biological rhythms.| E)|parallel processing.| 2.|The five-stage sleep cycle provides an example of:| A)|sleep apnea.| B)|dissociation.| C)|serial processing.| D)|biological rhythms.| E)|latent content.| 3.|Bright light inhibits our feelings of sleepiness by influencing the
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Numerous positions have historically been held and perhaps just as many positions are currently held‚ regarding the relationship of the mind to the body. These include dualism‚ materialism‚ identity theory‚ and others (Churchland‚ 1984). 1. Dualism (eg: Descartes): The mental and the physical are two distinct realities‚ composed of fundamentally different "stuffs" - irreducibility. The real you is not your physical/material
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Rationalism is the principle that maintains that through reason alone we can gain at least some positive knowledge of the world. The three major rationalists‚ Rene Descartes‚ Baruch Spinoza and Gottfried Welhelm Leibniz‚ used this idea in order to defy skepticism and expose the true nature of reality. However‚ each philosopher is frequently in disagreement. The idea for ‘God’‚ and what constitutes substance‚ matter and reality are the four key structural beliefs that aid each rationalist in the forming
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Charles Martins Taken Up is a poem that could illustrate two possible scenarios. This poem can be interpreted as viewing a group of people waiting on‚ meeting‚ and leaving with extraterrestrial beings. It could also be a personified colony of aspen trees that are awaiting the sun on a spring day. It is written in free verse that does not have a specific amount of syllables per line. The poem consists of seven terza rima rhyming verse stanzas‚ which displays the authors control over the free verse
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This poetical study will define the theme of social deviancy‚ taboo sexuality‚ and the quest for beauty through the dualistic meaning of “spleen and ideal” in The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire. In these poems‚ Baudelaire is attempting to find beauty in the most malignant and ugly aspects of life. The first section of the book entitled “Spleen and Ideal” defines the ugliness of death‚ disease‚ and other malignant aspects of life in the “spleen”‚ and the way that the “ideal” attempts to extract
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How successful are Descartes’ arguments for the real distinction of mind from body? Upon which problem would you put the most weight? Descartes says the mind is distinct from the body‚ or anything physical for that matter. He says‚ a thinking substance is nonphysical or spiritual in nature (mind)‚ and an extended substance is physical‚ but not capable of consciousness or thought (body). However‚ this very claim is also his biggest problem as his mind body interaction has many critics and to
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