Kanflict: How Humans Have Risen Above The Divine
.... I think I'll take the first option…Yippee." This seems ludicrous, that
one would chose the good of one over the good of another, and not chose yourself.
But this is what elevates us above the rest of the life on the planet, that we
will chose to serve the laws of morality and justice, while putting aside one's
own happiness.
God on the other hand has no such decision to make. God only knows
morality. There is no weighing or balancing of conflicting agendas, be it
morality or desire. This is .....
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Kant's Fundamental Principles Of The Metaphysics Of Moral
.... on the maxim, that actions have moral worth, and the end
is necessary. From these stipulations, it can be derived that the categorical
imperative should be followed in order to live morally. “If an action is
conceived as good in itself and consequently as being necessarily the principle
of a will which of itself conforms to reason, then it is categorical.” (Abbott,
32) “There is therefore but one categorical imperative, namely, this: Act only
on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that .....
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The One Truth Of Reality
.... of truth, paradoxically, most often leads to illusion
and darkness and pain. This is the case for the general spiritual state of
humanity in the late Twentieth Century.
In this way, truth, freedom, love, clear perception, purity, transcendence, and
enlightenment are all the very same thing. During the journey, one will no doubt
see many facets of truth and see them as separate, distinguished, or part of a
duality; but in time, one will see how they all link up and ultimately, how
everything is a part .....
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Human Life And Fire
.... allow fire to burn for years while
others burn out very quickly or are not able to be burned at all. No two fires
are alike, in what they do. Some roam free while others are confined to an area.
A fire is beautiful to some, while to others it is dangerous and hellish.
These phrases can be used to illustrate life, as well. Life begins as a
type of spark. Some believe that life begins at conception, thus showing that
life does begin with a very small, yet significant "spark." Others believe .....
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Descartes' Meditations
.... cannot reliably distinguish between
certainty and falsity. To examine those ideas that have “objective reality,"
Descartes makes the improbable hypothesis of “an evil genius, as clever and
deceitful as he is powerful, who has directed his entire effort to misleading
me” ( ). By proposing this solution he is able to suspend his judgment and
maintain that all his former beliefs are false. By using doubt as his tool,
Descartes is now ready to build his following proofs with certainty.
Meditation .....
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Consciousness, The Self, And Personality Theory: A Critical Survey Of Theories Of Philosophical Arguments And Modern Psychological Personality Theories
.... concept of the self is a large factor in the study of personality as
well as philosophy. The self, generally speaking, includes subjective
experience and conscious awareness. In the book Philosophy of Mind the author
speaks about self-consciousness, "...the possession of the concept of the self
and the ability to use this concept in thinking about oneself" (Guttenplan, 213).
This unique quality of human beings allows for the question of thoughts,
beliefs, desires, emotions, intentions, .....
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Mill's Utilitarianism: Sacrifice The Innocent For The Common Good?
.... Quantitative utilitarians would weigh the pleasure and pain which would
be caused by the bomb exploding against the pleasure and pain that would be
caused by torturing the terrorist. Then, the amounts would be summed and
compared. The problem with this method is that it is impossible to know
beforehand how much pain would be caused by the bomb exploding or how much pain
would be caused by the torture. Utilitarianism offers no practical way to make
the interpersonal comparison of utility necessary to comp .....
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John Locke And John Stuart Mill's Definition Of Freedom
.... the bounds of the law
of nature, without asking leave or depending upon the will of any other man. "
(Locke 4) Locke believes that man exists in a state of nature and thus exists
in a state of uncontrollable liberty which has only the law of nature to
restrict it, which is reason. (Locke 5) However Locke does state that man does
not have the license to destroy himself or any other creature in his possession
unless a legitimate purpose requires it. Locke emphasizes the ability and
opportunity to own .....
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My Philosophical Approach To Counseling
.... participate.
Definition of Person-Centered (Client-Centered) Therapy
According to Mosby's Medical, Nursing, and Allied Health Dictionary,
client-centered therapy is a non directive method of group or individual
psychotherapy, originated by Carl Rogers, in which the role of the therapist is
to listen to and reflect or restate without judgment or interpretation the words
of the client.
Objectives of Existential Therapy
The objectives of Existential Therapy are quite unique. Existential
counselors .....
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My Personal Search For A Meaningful Existence
.... I am free
to choose my own religion, I am not stifled by or subjected to economic
disadvantage, I am not bound to subservience by an oppressive or tyrannical
government, I am blessed with a myriad of conveniences by my technologically
advanced society, and I come from a nurturing and supportive family, so who the
hell am I to complain about my circumstances. The only explanation I can give,
in retort to my profession that I have been cursed by my inherent advantages,
is: since my life is completely devoid .....
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Nurture Plus Nature
.... of Watson. Gesell theorized that "physical and
motor growth and development is monitored and regulated by an automatic natural
process"(Rathus p.13). Each of these ideas has persisted strongly in the world
of psychology from the nineteenth century on into the twentieth, but now a new
and united psychology world acknowledges both theories equally. It is imagined,
today, that the explanation of our behavioral characteristics originates from
both our heredity, and the environment in which we were raised.
Th .....
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Nature Vs. Nurture
.... inherited or environmental issues we must have an understanding of
what intelligence really is.
Of all the words used in pressed day psychology, intelligence is one of
the most difficult to define and is also one of the most controversial. There
is however, a general agreement that intelligence refers to the overall
faculties of the mind which concern themselves with the sorting of information
in the brain after it has been received by the senses, the perceiving of
relationships between this .....
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Aristotle's Concept Of Teleology
.... thier ends or purposes.
That is, all events in history are future-directed.
Aristotle's thought is consistently teleological: everything is always
changing and moving, and has some aim, goal or purpose. To borrow from
Newtonian physics, we might say that everything has potential which may be
actualized. An acorn is potentially and oak tree for example. The process of
change and motion which the acorn undertakes is directed at realizing this
potential. Aristotle believed that things in nature o .....
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Oran: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
.... lives with very little
change in habit. These persons lift themselves above the desperation and focus
their actions on the grueling responsibility of making life better for
themselves and others.
The greatest affliction the citizens of Oran suffer when visited by the
plague is not fear but the sense of separation, the loneliness of exile, the
pain of imprisonment. The plague has an affect on most everyone in Oran. Some
become better people, some worse. Grand, Rambert and Paneloux are all markedl .....
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What Is Orientalism?
.... the elaboration of thought and ideas, subjectively authenticated
itself. The content is no longer address and leaves the victim of the discourse
reduced to plain and pure denial. The content has become a set of prejudicial
belief (cliches).
To remind you of the famous aphorism: "the pen is mightier than the sword"
He writes:
"Orientalism is fundamentally a political doctrine willed over the orient
because the orient was weaker than the west."
Though injustice has already been served and the po .....
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