six Meditations is concerned with the possibility that our immediate perceptions of the external physical world that we either ignorantly or correctly call reality‚ may all in fact be a dream. Is the external world we believe to be our waking reality different to a reality we are programmed to be unable to perceive? Is it merely an intelligent deception of some sort‚ orchestrated by a cunning evil demon? This essay will attempt to question our capacity (or lack thereof) of perception within a hypothetic
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WE CAN SHAPE OUR FUTURE ESSAY 2/27/2013 Jessica Fernandez Rivero | WE CAN SHAPE THE FUTURE Nowadays‚ we live in a world of 7billion people that want or will want a good life style in which they could be much related with new technologies. These new life style‚ involves new technologies are very helpful but also polluting our environment. The innovation and obviously the people who are concerned about environment now are helping us to find more and more ways of improving our lives and
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Plato’s Beliefs on Knowledge HZT4U1 October 10‚ 2013 Plato was a Greek philosopher who lived 428-348BC and was a student of Socrates’s. Plato had many ideas that lead to greater discovery in several branches of philosophy‚ however‚ this essay will focus on his theories involving knowledge. Plato believed that real knowledge was understanding‚ that knowledge and perception are the same and that knowledge requires explaination. Plato defined knowledge as‚ "justified true belief‚" which states
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Can we be Slaves to our Desires? Epictetus argues that we can be slaves to our desires. In one example‚ a man clearly desires power and thinks he gains it by becoming Caesar’s friend; though in doing so‚ he becomes more like a slave. Although he may have increased his social status‚ he proves to be worse off and more enslaved than when he started. He now has to pay attention continuously to Caesar’s every word. He has to agonize constantly over whether the great Caesar views him favorably‚ and
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Prof. Arbour October 7‚ 2013 Have We Outgrown Our Government? Given the current government shutdown‚ the crisis and anxiety that the country is now facing has now brought to light a question that many do not take into consideration in our current day. Is the current United States government efficient enough to run our prosperous and quite large country? Although many people believe that our government is a Democracy‚ they would be surprised to learn that our government‚ in essence‚ is actually
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Argument‚ which goes from an unexceptional premise to the extraordinary conclusion that we have no knowledge at all. The claim in question seems insuperable from a philosophical sceptical standpoint; notwithstanding‚ there have been serious attempts to refute the sceptic‚ each with varying degrees of success. However‚ it seems that almost every attempt at dodging the bogey of scepticism has‚ by the highest epistemic standards‚ failed. In this essay‚ I will consider the arguments that have been raised
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the 21st century world. Knowledge acquisition and vocabulary has a unique relationship‚ which is directly linked to Language as a Way of Knowing. The claim discusses whether our vocabulary is a simple reaction to our previous knowledge or is our knowledge acquisition shaped by the vocabulary we know. On one hand‚ our vocabulary had become so influential that our world is completely built and dependent on it‚ which is the pinnacle point of Whorfarianism. On the other hand‚ our language acts as a metaphoric
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time when our opinions and beliefs begin to differentiate from those around us. During this time‚ some people may discover where they belong‚ whereas many others do not. It is not solely one stage of our lives when we are confronted with an identity crisis‚ but a continuous challenge throughout our lives as we encounter new experiences that will alter our thoughts‚ emotions and perspective on ourselves. Most of us are following the “norms”‚ society expectations but deep down inside‚ we desire for
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Theory of Knowledge Essay (May 2013) Question Title Six: Can we trust our emotions in the pursuit of knowledge? Consider history and one other area of knowledge Mankind shares psychological phenomena known as emotion that is a natural state of mind deriving from a person.1 By means of this special ability‚ trusting our emotions in the pursuit of knowledge can be questioned‚ as it is a circumstance that involves only an individual‚ there might be an
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Knowledge versus Belief Introduction The traditional or classic definition of knowledge was proposed by Plato in his dialogue Theaetetus−that “knowledge is justified true belief”. This view is formulated by a study of justified beliefs that constitute knowledge‚ this study is called Epistemology. Epistemology as a branch of philosophy deals with certain questions that are conducive to know what knowledge is. These questions can be proposed in the following way: What are the necessary and sufficient
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