Rima 134 The Petrarchan Sonnet "Laura" - The object of many of his poems‚ Laura is a mysterious‚ far-off‚ unreachable woman that Petrarch pines for but never gets. Scholars argue over the reality of this woman‚ but Petrarch’s other writings claim that she was a real woman who refused his advances because she was married to another man. He called his distant relationship to her "an overwhelming but pure love affair." Petrarch’s writing on Laura expresses both delight and despair. It hurts when
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Zoology from University of Neuchâtel in 1918. Theory: Piaget identified himself as a genetic epistemologist. "What the genetic epistemology proposes is discovering the roots of the different varieties of knowledge‚ since its elementary forms‚ following to the next levels‚ including also the scientific knowledge‚" he explained in his book Genetic Epistemology. Epistemology is a branch of philosophy that is concerned with the origin‚ nature‚ extent‚ and limits of human knowledge. He was interested not
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parts” (107 – COMPENDIUM) There are four different paradigms; positivism‚ postpositivism‚ critical theory and constructivism. Each of these can be described by means of usage within the three fields of ontology (Deals with the nature of realism)‚ epistemology (Deals with knowledge) and methodology (A set of methods and principles used to perform a particular activity). When dealing with positivism‚ the ontological nature of the social world is naive realism. Reality exists “out there” and is driven
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in the ontology will enable one to understand how organisation works along with its counterparts such as employees and technology. Epistemology allows organisations to acquire knowledge through proper testing of our logic against the reality assumed by the world. Epistemology consists of positive epistemology and interpretive epistemology. Positive epistemology
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Summary Essay of "Amusing Ourselves to Death" This is a breakdown of Neil Postman’s "Amusing ourselves to death"(1985)‚ which must be written to explain the effects that high volume of emails‚ text messages‚ video games‚ and internet television has on the human race and the way we think. In the first chapter of the book "The Medium is the Metaphor" Postman (1985) begins his argument that he presents through out the book. Postman (1985) explains how knowledge is no longer gained from print‚ but
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understood and studied." (Guba‚ 1990). Denzin and Lincoln (2001) listed three categories of those beliefs: Ontology: what kind of being is the human being. Ontology deals with the question of what is real. Epistemology: what is the relationship between the inquirer and the known: "epistemology is the branch of philosophy that studies the nature of knowledge and the process by which knowledge is acquired and validated" (Gall‚ Borg‚ & Gall‚ 1996) Methodology: how do we know the world‚ or gain knowledge
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Peter Aggleton (eds) Culture. Society and Sexuality Reader. London‚ UK: UCL Press. Humphreys‚ L Illouz‚ Eva. 1997. Consuming the Romantic Utopia: Love and the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism Jaggar‚ Alison. 2004. Feminist politics and epistemology: the standpoint of women. In S. Harding (Ed) Feminist Standpoint Reader. New York‚ NY: Psychology Press. Kempadoo‚ Kamala‚ and Jo Doesema‚ eds. 1998. Global Sex Workers: Rights‚ Resistance‚ and Redefinition Kimmel‚ M. 2000. The Gendered Society
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self-sustained dependency.” ( What is Enlightenment? ). Kant believed that in order to break away from dependency‚ one must be able to think for himself. However‚ the only way to fully exercise freedom was to act morally. In the “Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals”‚ Kant explains that acting with good will is acting with duty to others‚ which then highlights the question‚ “How should we treat others?” He answers this question through his moral law called the categorical imperative. The categorical
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Aristotle vs. Hobbes‚ constitutes a debate between two great thinkers from two profoundly different periods of time. Whereas Aristotle (384 - 322 BCE) had been a part of the Greek’s and more precisely‚ Athens’s Golden Age‚ Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679) had lived through the English Civil War of 1640s to become one of the most influential philosophers. Based on their own personal experiences and surroundings‚ both Aristotle and Hobbes had developed a view of what human equality should sustain. However
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