ITK Human Sciences Journal Michelle Ng 4D (12)
Recently, a group of leading Northeastern University network scientists found out that, human behavior...
Are There Good Reasons to Allow Infants to
Consume Electronic Media, such as Television?
Statement of Position:
In today’s world, going into a home without...
In this world of such diverse cultures and different life styles, it is obvious that there are many values that people have and live by. We all, as individuals, do not have...
Are there universal standards of moral judgment?
I do not believe there are universal moral standards. Since morality implies that there is conformity or total...
In my opinion we are almost different people at different phases of our lives. During different phases of our lives we thinking back of our past self. I, for example...
Skepticism in philosophical terms states that true knowledge, or knowledge in a particular area, cannot be certain. Whether one is on one side of the argument or the other...
Argument against God
There are many different creationist theories, but the monotheistic God is the most widely believed in. The traits given to this God are omnipotence...
Argument and Logic
When examining each of these stories, they each have clear arguments for each theory. When looking at the theory, On Rabbits and Motion, Zeno argues...
The excerpt that I have decided to choose is “Free Will versus Determinism”. In this excerpt the author stated two beliefs. The first belief is “The behavior of atoms is...
Steph Stokes
PHI105
Argument and Logic Checkpoint
5/3/2011
In “Augustine on God and Time”, Augustine answers the question of why God created our world when he did...
Argument and Logic
Nikki Cunningham
Phi/105 Introduction to Philosophy
Axia College
6/29/2011
I chose the excerpt on Free Will Versus Determinism because it seemed...
Saint Augustine was a professor of rhetoric who grew up in Northern Africa and was known to engage in many love affairs. At age 33 Augustine was baptized into the Christian...
Prof. Henry
PHL 202
11/13/2008
Argumentative Essay
People have opportunities to choose from the choices by whatever they faced with. When people have a pressure to...
Arguments For and Against Cloning
The end of the twentieth century was the information age. Now, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, we are entering a new age...
Aristotle
• Aristotle believed that there is a soul, but the body dies too. So the question is – why do we have a soul?
The Psyche
• Definition : Principle of life...
Civic Relationships
In the book Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle wrote ten books, each one having a different theme, except for books eight and nine which are both...
Aristotle and the prime mover.
A) Aristotle believed that all movement depends on there being a mover. For Aristotle, movement meant more than something travelling from A...
Aristotle’s interpretations of the various forms of friendship, even after two millennia of social and political revolutions around the world, seem to be accurate...
Acaciah Glaze
Humanitas
12/12/13
A Changeless Principle
What if I told you that your life is lie? What if I told you that everything you think you know is...
Critically assess Aristotle’s view on Friendship
In modern philosophy, extensive discussions on friendship have become extremely rare due to the world we live in...
Executive Summary:
Colonel Stas Preczewski, coach of Army Crew team for the United States Academy at West Point, is undergoing the pressure of analyzing the...
Art and Science
By
Doug Cooper
Over the years, many questions have been debated about the relationship between art and science. What would a world without art be...
The Art of Persuasion
Conflicts at work place can either be good or bad depending on the skills of the leader who is handling them. To make these conflicts beneficial...
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Communicate Your Ideas
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ome students will be surprised to find the subject of communication included in a book on thinking because they assume that...