Jared White Don Wacome Philosophy and Christianity May 2‚ 2010 Personal Identity and the Afterlife Inquiring about personal identity will inevitably give birth to questions dealing with our being people‚ or‚ as many philosophers like to say‚ persons. To the thoughtful person‚ these questions may be familiar‚ but still remain complex: What am I? When did I begin existing? What is going to happen to me when I die? Others are more complex: How is it that a person can persist from one time
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Explain Aristotle’s understanding of the Prime Mover (25 marks) In Aristotle’s book the Metaphysics‚ he calls the cause of all movement the Prime Mover (P.M). The Prime Mover to Aristotle is the first of all substances‚ the necessary first sources of movement which itself is unmoved. It is a being which is eternal‚ and in Metaphysics Aristotle also calls this being ‘God’. However‚ before he came to know the existence of the P.M he first started noticing the constant changes around him‚ which led
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Contract 1 III. Immaterial Breach of Contract 1 IV. Material Breach of Contract 2 V. Remedies 3 VI. Remedies at Law 3 VII. Remedies in Equity 5 VIII. Summary 6 IX. Bibliography 8 Executive Summary This paper discusses the legal concept of a breach of contract and the options a business has in pursuing a breach of contract case. It defines what constitutes a breach of contract‚ how a party may breach a contract‚ and it compares the legal distinction between an immaterial and material
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bodies as a result of biomechanical and electrochemical interactions. But what about our minds? It seems that thoughts are not substances; they have no shapes or weights and cannot be touched. It is always controversial that whether our minds are immaterial souls or our minds are brains. According to Descartes Dualism and Cartesian Dualism‚ it comes the following theses: 1. A human being has two parts: an abstract mind and a physical body. 2. Mind and body are able to exist independently. 3. The mental
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determined as a percentage of the most relevant base (e.g.‚ Net Income Before Taxes‚ Total Revenue‚ Total Assets). Relevant financial statement bases and presumptions on the effect of combined misstatements or omissions that would be considered immaterial and material are provided below: Profit Oriented Entity: ▪ Net Income Before Income Taxes - combined misstatements or omissions less than 3 percent of Net Income Before Income Taxes are presumed to be
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Aristotle on the Soul Aristotle’s notion differs from the usual conception of a soul as some sort of substance occupying the body‚ existing separately and eternally. To him‚ the soul is the essence of a living thing. The soul is what makes an organism an organism at all by actualizing its potential for life‚ and it’s constituted by its capacity for activities essential to that specific type of being. His investigation into the nature of the soul demonstrates basic principles of his philosophical
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their perspective of reality through reason. Plato believed in two separate realities; the physical and the immaterial. He claimed that a dividing line existed between the two worlds‚ and the immaterial or intelligible is of more importance in the discovery of truth than the physical properties of our world. Comprised of intangible properties but that can be seen through logic‚ the immaterial world is grasping the reason behind the idea of an object and separating those elements from the subject.
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Q 1 - An offer exits whenever the objective inference from the offeror’s words or conduct is that she intends to commit herself legally to the terms she proposes. The advertisement specified that the promisee should use the smoke ball 3 times a day for 2 weeks. Mrs. C used the smoke ball and caught Influenza‚ then claimed the $100 from the company. a- How were the facts of Carlil v. Carbolic Smoke Ball different from the usual situation involving an advertisement? ( relate it to the elements of
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material or immaterial. Misstatements are material when they affect a person’s decision using the financial statements and are immaterial if there is no effect on a person’s decision. When an auditor comes across a misstatement of the financial statements that is considered immaterial‚ they should recognize it and suggest that management fix it. Since it is immaterial‚ the auditor shouldn’t insist if management decides not to take the auditors suggestion because after all it is immaterial and will not
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