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- 3951: The Existence of God
- ... bestowed by a higher intelligence, and so on. The ultimate directing intelligence being God. The next in our line of arguments for the existence of God comes from William Paley, who argues for the teleological school of thought. This mandates that God's existence is proven through the anylazation of a single experience. To illustrate this he uses a analogy of finding a watch. He begins by saying if he stumbled ...
- 3952: Human Perception: An Intimate Look Into The Most Intriguing Aspect of Modern Psychology
- ... distinct possibility that conditioning has the ability to alter perception in a great amount. People often mistakenly identify people for others in many circumstances everyday. For example, I got on the bus to go to school a few weeks ago, and sat down next to a person whom I believed I had talked to the day before regarding a topic. I started to say something, I looked up and realized the ...
- 3953: Existence of Man
- ... subsequent factor in determining our identity is the image, name, or label given to us by society. In other words, what we believe other people think of us. Most people participate in many groups friends, school, family, jobs, clubs, churches and more each contributing to our identity. We have to accept the death of the superman who is alone needing no one, inner directed and indifferent to his surroundings. We see ...
- 3954: Enlightenment: The Light Bulb of the 1700's
- ... life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Martin Luther and Galileo both disagreed with certain things that the church believed in. Martin Luther said that the only way to atone for your sins were through prayer and contrition. In his 95 Thesis he established that salvation is within oneself and that individual faith in God is very important . But the church did not see it that way. The church believed that ...
- 3955: Berkeley
- ... knowledge comes from the senses. In opposition, the rationalists maintained that knowledge comes purely from deduction, and that this knowledge is processed by certain innate schema in the mind. Those that belonged to the empiricist school of thought developed quite separate and distinct ideas concerning the nature of the substratum of sensible objects. John Locke and David Hume upheld the belief that sensible things were composed of material substance, the basic ...
- 3956: Atomism: Democritus and Epicurus
- ... attempt to clarify some of the more questionable postulations. Epicurus' theory is not necessarily superior, but certainly progressive. There is room for discourse on a variety of the Atomists' theories. Since they are the first school of thought from which we have so much written record, there is bound to be divergence of opinion. The areas I have discussed relate only the area of physics. Epicurus attempts to resolve some of ...
- 3957: Plato vs. Aristotle
- Plato vs. Aristotle Plato and Aristotle, two philosophers in the 4th century, hold polar views on politics and philosophy in general. This fact is very cleverly illustrated by Raphael's "School of Athens" (1510-11; Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican), where Plato is portrayed looking up to the higher forms; and Aristotle is pointing down because he supports the natural sciences. In a discussion of politics, the ...
- 3958: The Riddle of the Sphinx
- ... by wise men to point out a truth, but after a time myths were taken literally. The linguistic corruption interpretation says that myths could be understood as allegory for events found in nature. The Jungians school denoted myths as a mechanism of wish fulfillment. Sir James Frazer, believed that all myths were originally connected with the idea of fertility in nature, with birth, death, and resurrection of vegetation as a constantly ...
- 3959: Progression Towards Light
- ... of bloody revenge to one of reason and justice. The light images emerge along with this progression, and the Furies proclaim near the end of the Eumenides: So with forecast of good I speak this prayer for them [the citizens of Athens] that the sun's bright magnificence shall break out wave on wave of all the happiness life can give , across their land (lines 921-925). The Chthonic gods have ...
- 3960: H G W B S
- ... unintelligible. Although, if they were to take a GOOD long look in the mirror, they would see what they dread most...the truth. The truth being that they do not have many friends within the school, that they are the strangers, "weirdos", "nerds" and unintelligible ones. The unyielding views of this group are rather snobbish. They will not see others as what they are inside, but rather what they seem to ...
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