RIGHT TO EDUCATION “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” –Nelson Mandela The importance of learning is to enable the individual to put his potentials to optimal use. Education makes man a right thinker and a correct decision-maker. It achieves this by bringing him knowledge from the external world‚ teaching him to reason and acquainting him with past history‚ so that he can be a better judge of the present. With education‚ he finds himself in a room with
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Rosenberg Ch 2 - (2.1)The Having Theory: the relationship between either a person and a soul or a person and a body is some form of “possession” or “ownership” signaled by the word ‘has’. Rosenberg’s argument: The questions regarding a person who dies “What becomes of the person?” and “Where does the corpse come from” cannot be answered coherently by the Having Theory. His argument: No account of the history of a person’s possessions following his death has any consequences regarding
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Readers have been responding to what they have read and experienced since the dawn of literature. For example‚ we have Plate and Aristotle who were concerned about audience responses and how plays generated pity and fear on them. Still‚ the audience or readers were passive. After the appearance of reader response theory‚ readers are activated. They involve themselves to elaborate the text‚ fill in the gaps and enact their experiences with the text. Most reader response critics can be divided into
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Sam Black PHIL 120: Animal Rights Framing Question: The Nazi ‘researchers’ are at it again. A badly brain damaged human being subject A -- an adult with the permanent mental capacity of a one year old -- appears on your computer screen. He is thrashing around‚ spilling things‚ smearing food over his face‚ playing with the contents of his diaper‚ etc. ‘We will make him very uncomfortable‚ cutting down his food‚ refrigerating his room‚ depriving him of sleep‚’ the Nazi-researchers convincingly
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Strong Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness Providing an alternative view to the theories of weak artificial intelligence is strong artificial intelligence. This approach redefines intelligence to include more than just the ability to solve complex tasks‚ or simply convince observers that such a quality exists within a system‚ as per the Turing Test. Strong AI theory rests upon the principle that complex machine systems such as neural networks are capable of establishing connections between
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Thought generally refers to any mental or intellectual activity involving an individual’s subjective consciousness. It can refer either to the act of thinking or the resulting ideas or arrangements of ideas. Similar concepts include cognition‚ sentience‚ consciousness‚ and imagination. 2. What do scientists say? As scientists adapt computers to be more like ‘thinking machines’‚ and as we learn how to plant electrodes in the brains of the disabled to re-enable them‚ and Matel adapts the same
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unjustified the killing of any sentient life form as evident in the Pali Canon‚ “a disciple of the noble ones… abstains from taking life”. Sentient life forms are all creatures that possess senses and respond to the environment in which they habituate. Sentience indicates that there is the presence of karmic forces and a creature should be allowed to develop these forces during its life so that the karmic forces may be reborn into a better life form. In Buddhism‚ killing is seen as an act that will bring
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ABORTION ESSAY – PHILOSOPHY AND ETHICS The medical issue that I have chosen to study is abortion. Abortion is the action of deliberately killing or removing an unborn child. This is controversial due to different beliefs about when a child has physical conscience or is ‘alive’ and for the reason in which a mother has for killing her unborn child. The ethical beliefs surrounding abortion depend on person to person and are strongly influenced by political and religious views. As technology improves
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INTRODUCTION Epicurus in his letter to Menoeceus backers the necessity of freedom from prejudice‚ superstition and extremes of emotions in the pursuit of happiness and a tranquil life. The apparent simplicity of this formula allowed detractors to misinterpret Epicurus‚ depicting him as depraved‚ hedonistic‚ anarchistic and atheistic. His aim is to present to us‚ how to live a happy life. He sees happiness as the fundamental principle of the good life. This paper is an attempt to critically delineate
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The Ultimate Right The ever-lasting clash of interests between man and beast‚ man of one color and man of another has been going on forever. It is hard to recognize that “All Animals are Equal” simply because everyone is selfish. People will always promote the survival of their own‚ and have prejudice to a different color‚ or species simply because they want to promote their self interest. Though all the discrimination arguments should be handled through utilitarianism: one life equals one life
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