The Art of Living I remember when I was young‚ I’ve been wondering why people are living? Why we exist? Why do all these stuffs are here on earth? There are lots of questions filled up my mind yet I found no answer. I can’t think enough for these‚ I need answers; I have to know what is really the reason of one’s existence. I am very much sure that in millions or billions of people who are living‚ it’s not only me who became curious on this matter. Many of us are wondering but only few have
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Progress of the Absolute Hegel: The progress of consciousness towards Fichte Despite the opposition between Kant and Fichte’s attempts to autonomize human existence‚ they both maintained an essentially dualistic point of view. In Kant this was a dualism between the contingency of the world of sense and the necessary forms of the intellect‚ and between duty and nature in man; In Fichte it was the dualism of duty and reality‚ which is a permanent condition of the development of the mind and is
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34‚ 28‚ 4‚ 65‚ 1‚ 79‚ 52; taking a chance on numbers such as these can change a person’s life forever. The winner of the insurmountable cash prize is not determined by how poverty stricken or destitute one may appear‚ but simply‚ luck of the draw. No one can predict the outcome of the lottery of life; however‚ as a species‚ humans need that faith in the possibility to keep us grounded and sane. In times of such desperation‚ certain extremities can be taken to attain stability. Dependence on seemingly
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Nutrient Cycle Questions: 1. What ’spheres’ are involved in nutrient cycling? The atmosphere‚ the lithosphere‚ the biosphere and the hydrosphere. 2. What is the law of conservation of matter or mass? That matter can neither be created nor destroyed and that nature is essentially a closed system. 3. Why does it matter that nature is basically a ’closed system’? It matters because since all the elements we rely on to support life on the planet are here and have been here and there isn’t
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The fifth meditation starts off by Descartes straying away from meditating on the aspects of himself and God and compelling himself to focus on what he was pondering on a few days ago: material things. But before Descartes tries to reason if material things outside himself exist‚ he must first make sure material things can be definite outside his thoughts without being subjected to doubtfulness. Other than that‚ anything outside these parameters has to be omitted and seen as distractions from what
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British philosopher John Locke in the late 17th Century created the doctrine of Empiricism. Locke argued that human nature was mutable and that knowledge was gained through accumulated experience rather than by accessing some sort of outside truth. In his work “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding” he claimed that the mind begins as a clear slate and experience shapes it. He does not support the claim that humans have ideas that are innate. Locke believed in order for humans to know anything
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In meditations by Rene Descartes‚ he said he has decided to doubt everything he previously believed to be true and instead rely on only his reasoning ability starting from the scratch and building his knowledge beginning with things of which he is completely certain. He rejects the knowledge from his sense deciding that such knowledge is unreliable and open to deception so is not trustworthy. He reasons that he himself must actually exist because he is able to doubt and to think. He knows that he
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One great philosopher named; René Descartes was born on March 31‚ 1596‚ in La Haye en Touraine‚ France. He was extensively educated‚ first at a Jesuit college at age 8‚ then earning a law degree at 22‚ but an influential teacher set him on a course to apply mathematics and logic to understanding the natural world. We will be exploring the several arguments Descartes discusses in his Meditations. This approach incorporated the contemplation of the nature of existence and of knowledge itself. Descartes
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In philosophy‚ an ontological argument is a kind of argument that establishes the existence of some entity. In the case of Anselm‚ he argues in favor of God’s existence. In this paper‚ I will discuss relevant information necessary to understand Anselm’s reasoning. Then I will break down Anselm’s argument. Finally‚ I will present Galindo’s Perfect Island Objection and explain why his criticisms are unfounded. Before examining Anselm’s argument‚ it is necessary to understand the concepts underlying
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The aim of this paper is to reduce Swinburne’s Christian centered theodicy into a pantheistic theodicy via modification of Spinoza’s necessitarianism. To begin‚ I will accept the imperative conditions of Swinburne’s theodicy up to a certain degree. Consequently‚ the primary condition Swinburne’s theodicy and my proposal each share is the consequentialist disposition of the Divine. However‚ the noted degree at which these theodicies will deviate is the condition demanding objective moral judgments
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