The Sophists believed that truth is based on relativism. Relativism is the belief that knowledge is determined by specific qualities of the observer‚ including ethnicity‚ age‚ gender‚ religious training‚ and cultural conditioning. The Sophists taught that we only believed things that seem true according to our culture. They also taught that individuals only believe that their ways are best because that is what truth within their culture is. The Sophists also break down relativism into two basic
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Possible Answer: Antigone believes that a woman’s duty is not to the men who rule a domain‚ but rather to her own instincts and her own sense of right and wrong. She believes that the gods do not dictate through a ruler‚ but rather through individual beliefs. When does Creon become apologetic for his actions? Possible Answer: Creon never apologizes for his actions. Instead‚ he simply orders Antigone to be freed because he knows that Teiresias is never wrong - and therefore that his own life is at risk
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leads to time theft by employees. POSITIVE EMPLOYEE ATTITUDE TOWARD CONSEQUENCES An employee is more likely to steal time at work if the consequences are perceived as positive through evaluating outcomes of the action and the strength in their beliefs. If the outcome of stealing time at work is perceived as a positive advantage to the employee‚ the employee is more likely to engage in the action. For example‚ if a salaried employee believes he or she can leave work an hour early every day of
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The experience of moving into the world can challenge individual’s beliefs and attitudes. The texts The Story of Tom Brennan and Edward Scizzorhands illustrate this through their featured themes of belonging and the introduction to a new world. The Story of Tom Brennan illustrates that the introduction to a new environment can force an indiviual to rethink their beliefs and attitudes. The plot takes Tom and his family‚ the Brennans out of their home town after tragedy strikes and they are forced
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the cause of my belief or (more likely in this case) for my reasons for believing it. Suppose that you are interested in the explanation of why (as a matter of fact) I hold the belief. I may tell you (truthfully) that I hold this belief because my father told me so (perhaps kept saying so)‚ so I kind of have come to hold the belief by default‚ as it were. In doing so I make no pretense to argue that this is a reason – I may in fact believe that my father holds many false beliefs. I am only claiming
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According to James in his book “The Will To Believe” he appointed the name hypothesis to anything that can be added to our belief. James classifies hypothesis as either alive or dead. He similarly compares his hypothesis of “electricians speak of live and dead wires‚ let us speak of any hypothesis as either live or dead” (James‚ 2008) In James’s message‚ he tells us that a live wire (hypothesis) in one which is appealing for the individual is an actual possibility. James’s classification of a dead
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reflect upon are; the holidays we celebrate and the way we celebrate them‚ and the nature of God and other religious beliefs. In my opinion‚ when talking about holidays and religion‚ these two subjects coordinate‚ when being discussed together. It is a known fact that some holidays are celebrated differently (such as‚ Christmas)‚ or not even celebrated at all due to religious beliefs. According to athesim.about.com‚ the United States is 85% Christian. This means that the other 25% is either of another
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loyal to the British might have reacted in the way of disapproval and without an open mind. They also could have acted upon themselves to go against Paine and start an uprising because of his beliefs. 10. Paine uses the aphorism "the harder the conflict‚ the more glorious the triumph" to express his belief that hardships faced by the American forces during the war will make their eventual victory more meaningful. Find one more aphorism used in Paine’s essay and explain the point he is making with
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the views of William Kingdon Clifford‚ who argued in The Ethics of Belief‚ that it is always wrong to believe anything for which the evidence is insufficient. James on the other hand thinks that occasionally despite what evidence points to‚ that if true beliefs are more important‚ then believing without strong evidence may be sufficient. James then goes on to describe that a hypothesis is anything that may be proposed to our belief. First he distinguishes between a live and dead hypothesis. A live
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the universe. So‚ how are the two related‚ and how in turn do the two contradict each other? The difference between science and religion is that religion knows “how things come to be this way” and looks around at “what is” for support of their beliefs. On the other hand science looks around at “what is” and comes up with an idea or hypothesis of “how things come to be this way” with data and research for evidence. The conflict between the two is that science relies on experimental verification
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