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- 461: If I See A Ghost Are My Senses
- ... a successful sιance. Apart from considering all the forms of perceptional errors, we can explain the existence of such spirits that are perceived (but not always believed!) If we want to stick to the Rationalist philosophy and therefore state that such presences should be reasoned out, rather than just experienced, we can say that this subject has brought together many professionals from around the globe, using their knowledge and their equipment ... next thing to do is to learn from your experience in order to gain knowledge of the immense information that humans have not even tried to acquire. I do profoundly agree with the Kant s philosophy that all knowledge is achieved through experience and filtered through our reasoning processes. It is just that most of the times we are not aware of the input, or else we are not ready to ...
- 462: Gods Existence
- ... ontological argument is based on the thought of God as the highest being. Anselm s argument is different from other philosophers simply because of it s premise. He saw a need for a precise logical philosophy as a way for making faith mature, not as a substitute for faith. Because Anselm already believed in God, he was only looking for rational support for this belief. Therefore Anselm s method of proving ... Western intellectualism and education reached a peak in the first flowering of the great universities (Aquinas, xix). His life and works had much influence on others . People referred to him as being an innovator of philosophy for his thoughts on proving God s existence. In the proof from efficient cause, Aquinas states, Whatever belongs to a being is either caused by the principles of its nature... or it comes to it ...
- 463: Billy Budd By Herman Melville
- ... me company I shall be glad. At the least we can promise ourselves that pleasure which is wickedly said to be in sinning, for a literary sin the divergence will be. (20) Because of his philosophy, Captain Vere always strives to do that which he believes to be right according to the laws set by his superior officers. This is a stark contrast to Billy, who keeps quiet when he learns ... of the dawn(80). Such glory and beauty in death can only be achieved by those who are truly ready and without regret, as Billy was. The question, then, is presented. Innocence or wisdom? Which philosophy, which way of life is more correct? Claggart, who represents the natural evil in the world, serves as the opposition and corruption which we face everyday. He is the obstacle that Billy must deal with ...
- 464: B.f. Skinners Walden Two
- ... their own but which are fairly trivial and extrinsic to his central thesis. The reader and the skeptical visitors sense he is trying to soften them up and stiffen their backs all the more. A philosophy professor named Castle is the main bearer of resistance. Skinner looks down upon philosophy as a form of navel gazing and Castle is made an easy target. More serious reservations come from the narrator, a psychology professor named Burris. However, Burris also serves as a voice for Skinner and ...
- 465: Enterprise Project Management
- ... priorities not centrally managed usually are grounds for failure. I believe that a properly organized enterprise project office is the formula for successful project implementation. This paper briefly outlines what I feel is the main philosophy of the project office and two functions it can provide. The main philosophy of the project office is to provide the organization with a single point of enterprise project planning and control. The project office supports all levels of management by monitoring all current projects in an integrated ...
- 466: Francios Rabelias
- ... to paint in three dimensions, writers began write satires, and they started blending their opinions into their stories. They became concerned with human welfare, humanism. Humanism was a program of study rather than a unified philosophy. It stressed the studia humanitatis, or humanities, which included grammar, rhetoric (the art of persuasive argument), poetry, history, and moral philosophy. It was designed to make the Christian well-rounded and virtuous. People like Michangelo, Leonardo da Vinchi, Lorenzo de Medici, Raphael,and St. Thomas More were humanists. They were concerned with human welfare, this is ...
- 467: A Duty Dance With Exploring De
- ... 000 person massacre. And how does he react? "So it goes" (Vonnegut 188), Billy says as he goes on with his daily affairs. He spends much of the rest of his life "actively disseminating that philosophy, first preaching it orally on the all-night radio program and then writing letters to the Ilium New Leader" (Bryfonski and Senick 615). But Vonnegut disagrees and "rejects the Tralfamadorian philosophy
[and] Billy's total "incapacity to understand the significance of the death of human beings" (Bryfonski and Senick 615). In Slaughterhouse Five, Vonnegut has 103 people die all of whose deaths are followed incompassionately by ...
- 468: Could Gambling Save Science: Encouraging an Honest Consensus
- ... Technological Risk", Proc. Soc. for Risk Analysis Internl. Workshop on Uncertainty in Risk Assessment, Risk Management, and Decision Making, Sept. 30, pp.89-102. [Fe] Feyerabend, P., (1975) "How to Defend Society Against Science", Radical Philosophy, 2, Summer, pp.4-8. [Fo] Forsythe, R., Nelson, F., Neumann, G., Wright, J. (1990) "The Explanation and Prediction of Presidential Elections: A Market Alternative to Polls" Economics Working Paper 90-11, April 12. Univ ... Finance, 44:1, March. pp.115-134. [Syk] Sykes, C. (1988) ProfScam, St. Martin's Press, NY. [Syn] (1985) Synthese, "Consensus" issue, 62:1, Jan [Th] Thayer, H. (1980) "Peirce on Truth", Two Centuries of Philosophy in America, ed. P. Caws. Towman & Littlefield, Totowa NJ. [Ti] Tierney, J. (1991) "A Bet On Planet Earth", Reader's Digest, March, pp.61-64. [Tr] Trumpbour, J. (1989) How Harvard Rules, South End Press ...
- 469: Andrew Marvells To His Coy Mis
- ... rules and regulations. These rules, in accordance with the author s tone, deny humanity the euphoric sense of immediate pleasure, and simple happiness. Marvell uses such ideology to suggest a unique sense of carpe diem philosophy. The conception is a more pointed outlook at our society, and at how we might harbor regrets about our personal conformity in our latter years. Such regret is not unsubstantiated, for only a few are ... not differ in their intended messages. The former suggests the specific actions that the latter commends to be ideal. Marvell s use of language, diction, and tone successfully weaves the immediate goals of carpe diem philosophy with the extended ideologies that such poetry implies.
- 470: Invisible Man
- ... five different forms of rebirth along with their psychological implications. Jacques Lacan, a more recent theorist than Freud or Jung, based his works on a revision of Freudian ideas. Lacan is the father of the philosophy of psychoanalysis. That is, he believed that psychoanalysis was a valid field of thought independent of its use as a medicinal therapy.(11) In The Critical Tradition, the editor points out that "Lacan approached literature ... five different forms of rebirth along with their psychological implications. Jacques Lacan, a more recent theorist than Freud or Jung, based his works on a revision of Freudian ideas. Lacan is the father of the philosophy of psychoanalysis. That is, he believed that psychoanalysis was a valid field of thought independent of its use as a medicinal therapy.(11) In The Critical Tradition, the editor points out that "Lacan approached literature ...
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