------------------------------------------------- DATE: September 2013 QUESTION 1 Marriage is a durable conjugal union between a man and a woman that serves good of children‚ the good of spouses‚ and the common good of society. Marriage is the grass root of a family (household‚ consisting of parents and children).Marriage is the foundation of a productive household in the following ways; * Individuals who are married have a greater drive to work as they are the providers for
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Social work as a discipline concentrates on theoretical and philosophical positions such as social justice‚ equality‚ and empowerment and these may be described as “philosophies of social work”.(Mackie‚ 2007) Historically during social works early years‚ moral concerns laid the foundations for the development of social work and the principal values of the profession‚ with particular emphasis on the significance of individual worth and dignity and service to humanity (Bisman‚ 2004). Many of our contemporary
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Chapter 3 The Phenomenological Experience of the Human Person in St. Karol Wojtyła’s Philosophy In the previous chapter‚ the researcher elucidated an important element‚ or should say the foundation‚ of St. Karol Wojtyła’s notion of the human person which is grounded on metaphysics. Henceforth‚ Wojtyła is indebted with that of the Angelic Doctor‚ St. Thomas Aquinas’ objectivistic view of the human person. As presented‚ Aquinas used the term ‘persona’ in his treatises on the Trinity and Incarnation
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St. Augustine made some very important philosophical contributions to defend the philosophy of Christianity. One of these contributions concerned the philosophical problem of evil. Up until St. Augustine’s time‚ philosophers questioned the idea proposed by Christians that evil generated in a world created by a perfectly good God. The problem is easy enough to understand‚ yet slightly more complicated to solve. St. Augustine raised some fairly good propositions to offer an explanation for this question
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In his Two Dogmas of Empiricism‚ Quine addresses what he views as problematic claims made by Carnap. The first problem Quine has with Carnap’s epistemology is about his definition of state-descriptions. The problem is in two parts: first Quine says that Carnap’s version of analyticity is conditional‚ because it requires atomic sentences in a language to be mutually independent. The second part of the problem is that‚ Carnap’s attempt to explore analyticity by way of his state-descriptions results
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2. Trace the notion of opposites from the thought of Anaximander through the thought of the Atomists. According to Anaximander‚ the worlds consists of opposites. The main opposites are wet-dry and hot-cold. These are conflicting opposites. For one to exist it has to overpower the direct opposite. For example‚ for the dry earth to exist it has to overpower the wet water. According to Anaximander‚ this is injustice to one another. Justice therefore has to be restored by the defeated opposite
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Plato imagined that there existed an ideal or perfect world beyond our own physical earth. Our earthly world is full of unevenness‚ imperfections‚ and impurities which have been copied from the true ideal world which is beyond us. Plato further believed that our physical world and its Forms participate or imitate the real Forms in a disorderly way. He claimed that there was a relationship between the realm of Forms and our world. This relationship revealed to us mortals the forms and brought order
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order to maintain a functional working society‚ man needs to adhere to a certain set of laws and rules that act as guidelines for their self-preservation. This theory is defined as a social contract. The philosophers that specialise in this topic are known as social theorists. They argue on what is the most successful social contract theory in order for society to move forwards economically and industrially. The concept of ruling by majority is one that is often discussed between philosophers based on
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Definition: Positivism refers specifically the philosophy espoused by Auguste Comte and generally to later philosophies which are based on that. Comte argued that human thought proceeds through three stages: theological‚ metaphysical‚ and positivistic. The first‚ theological‚ involves trying to explain all phenomena through the direct operation of supernatural beings and divine forces. The second‚ metaphysical‚ is similar to the first‚ but those supernatural beings have become more abstract and
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sustained inflations in the history of the country. According to Reagan‚ this happened as a result of frequent public spending‚ with no regard for the future. Thus‚ tremendous social‚ cultural‚ political‚ and economic upheavals were to come. To fix this‚ Reagan proposed that they must begin acting as soon as possible. His main philosophy was that government itself was the problem‚ and it was hindering the progress of citizens across the country. As a result‚ he made it the administration’s objective to create
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