Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp William James (1842-1910) was one of America’s most notable philosophers, however, his work went beyond the boundaries of philosophy (Schick & Vaughn 2009). Born in New York City to a theologian father and the elder brother of famed novelist Henry James, James spent much of his youth studying religion and writing his thoughts … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp It has been and argument in political science about the why and to which extend do we have to obey the state. This has created a lot of division among political scientist and even has lead to an evolution of ideologies such as Anarchism and the rest. So to what extent should the … Read More
with certain limitations. We have the ability to choose from a variety of options but in the same time we must not jeopardise the freedom of others. Absolute freedom does not exist because if anyone would be free to do whatever they want then unwittingly the others’ right to freedom will be violated [1] . Freedom of … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp In this paper I will demonstrate why capital punishment should be abolished. Capital punishment have left many lives in devastation While Capital Punishment has been one of the most feared things of our time, it is still being questioned if it is unconstitutional. The Death Penalty is being enforced in more than 100 … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp It is difficult to comprehend why some good people suffer badly in life. At times, sincere and hardworking people are not able to move ahead in life due to various unfavorable conditions. Despite best of intention and courage, we find lot of people who possess good qualities suffer. On the contrary, someone who … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp Before you can be honest and open with others, you must first be so with yourself. Who are you? What are your values? What do you stand for? Who do you rely on? Do you rely on yourself and your cunning and wits, or to you rely on Allah? These are simple questions … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp This paper will discuss the moral permissibility and acceptability of passive euthanasia. The aim of the paper is to argue for the thesis that passive euthanasia is morally acceptable under certain conditions. I will present a defense of this thesis by defining its terms, distinguishing the various forms of euthanasia, especially between active … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp Whistle blowing is the fact of raising a concern about a wrongdoing occurring in an organization. It is also the act of filling actions against federal contractors claiming fraud against the government. The allegations are usually done by a person, the common informer, from this same organization and can be done internally or … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp In answering the question of whether history is an art or a science, the very nature of the subject is at stake. Interpretations of what discipline history belongs to change over time, leading to a continuing re-evaluation of the subject, beginning in the 19th century. The end result is a debate that is … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp Plagiarism comes from the Latin word “plagio”. It is translated as “to steal”. It is better to formulate a definition of plagiarism from the verb “plagiarize”. To plagiarize means to steal or to borrow someone’s ideas, works or thoughts. In such a way, “plagiarism” is copying the work of others and turning it … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp Posteriori knowledge, or empirical knowledge is propositional knowledge obtained by experience or sensorial information. Posteriori knowledge is a contrast to priori knowledge, which is knowledge that is gained through the apprehension of innate ideas, intuition or pure reason. Debate has focused on analyzing the nature of knowledge and how it relates to similar … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp The Master Argument appears in one format in Three Dialogues as a discussion between Philonous and Hylas as to whether Hylas can conceive of a mind independent object. It is when Philonous points out that by conceiving of such an object, Hylas is necessarily framing the idea within his mind that Hylas admits … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp Suicide is now the leading cause of death among military. Suicide occurs when a person chooses to end their life as he or she view suicide as the only way out of the problem. The causes of suicide are different and unique for each person. The stressor caused by war is one of … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp Introduction As an organisation progresses and becomes more significant, the greater impact it has on the people, social and environment. In this competitive environment, business ethics plays an important role in an organisation to determine its reputation and sustainability as it acts as a guide to influence and reinforce an organisational behaviour. Managing … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp Euthanasia comes from the Greek word Eu which means good and Thanatos meaning death Euthanasia. In modern usage, it has come to mean a gentle and painless death. Life is ended for a compassionate reason by an active or passive step taken by another person or the individual whom is suffering from a … Read More
Introduction The purpose of this essay is to talk about virtue ethics, Deontology and I ‘m going to talk about its meaning and how a person that practices, or have this kind of ethics system will act if he or she would be in a dilemma; it is important to remember that I am … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp Existentialism can be defined as a “philosophical movement oriented toward two major themes, the analysis of human existence and the centrality of human choice.” (Answers). It is a philosophy that implies that one can define his own value or meaning of life in a place that is void of meaning. There is also … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp In this paper, I will examine the debate over legalizing the death penalty, specifically by referring to the writings of Turrow in To Kill Or Not To Kill and Van den Haag in “On Deterrence and the Death Penalty”. I will argue that in responding to Van den Haag’s positions for the death … Read More
states that the consequences, or effect, of an action determine if an action is morally right or wrong. With utilitarianism, an action is determined to be morally right or wrong if it brings about more pleasure or pain. The effect of the action is what a utilitarian looks at to determine if that action is … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp The idea in utilitarianism is that the moral worth of an action is determined solely by its value in providing happiness or pleasure as summed among all conscious beings. It is a form of consequentialism, meaning that the moral worth of any action is determined by its outcome. Thus the utilitarian maxim: the greatest good for the … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp What is the moral point of view, and why is it regarded as important?¿½ Defend or criticize the view that business people must operate from the moral point of view. The moral point of view as stated by Partridge, (2010) assumes that a morally mature individual possesses a cognitive capacity which just might … Read More
binary device, in which the ON state is represented by 1 and the OFF state by 0. We require devising a logic statement which can be expressed in only one of two forms. For instance As you may know, computers store information in gigabytes, megabytes, and so on. The fundamental unit of storage is the … Read More
of what is objectively true and an unwillingness to search for truth on our own, accepting truth from others as objective without checking the factuality or bias of such things to decipher it as one’s own truth. One can believe many things as true if they have grown with the notion as such. Our education … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp ‘No one is so powerful that he can stop the march of time’ – this is what the phrase ‘time and tide wait for none’ means. Although the origin of this phrase is not sure, yet it is obvious that it has ancient origins and predates modern English. The mere mention of the … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp Take a moment and think for a few seconds, what you have done for your typical day. The majority of us would says, we normally rush through our typical daily tasks, or what not, trying to get those accomplished one by one, as much as we could, in a given time. Tasks may … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp A utilitarian is concerned with providing the greatest happiness for the greatest amount of people, so in this first case a utilitarian would agree with Thomson and would say that it is mandatory to pull the lever and save the greater number of people. An opposing view would say that pulling the lever … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp I have been asked to write a short paper on Thomas Kuhn’s concept of a paradigm shift and if this could be applied to theology. In this assignment I am going to include some definitions of a paradigm shift, theorists work on paradigm shifts, Kuhn’s concept of a paradigm shift and whether this … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp Hobbes gives the definition of deliberation as “the whole sum of desires, aversions, hopes and fears, continued till the thing be either done or thought impossible” (L, p. 33) and from this short passage in Leviathan, Hobbes further develops and explains the process of deliberation. During this process, “the last appetite or aversion … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp “Calculus is a means for calculating the way quantities vary with each other, rather than just quantities themselves” [1] .It is known as the greatest invention of mathematics and it was a combination of centuries of work. Over the time it expanded to all part of science such as physics, astronomy, biology, even economics. Many … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp “The unexamined life is not worth living.” With these words, Socrates stated the creed of reflective men and women and set the task for ethics: to seek, with the help of reason, a consistent and defensible approach to life and its moral dilemmas (Walters 22). Ethical inquiry is important to us when we … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp Do you ever wonder why you cant get it right when look at people who seem happy. Why is it that some people are capable of living life having fun while many others struggle to live through the day? What is it that makes successful happy people click? What is the secret to … Read More
acts of the Vietnam War and told them through a series of stories. The characters listed in the book may actually be true but their actions may not be or not in the way O’Brien tells the stories. He does not write in this book a historical account of the war but instead tells us … Read More
the importance of moral education, not as the inculcation of rules but as the training of character. (Zalta, 2003) Many would think that since morality and Christianity, keep in mind Christians have the bible as a manual, follow a familiar framework that they would easily tie into another which does seem the most particular way … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp A concept of various events within a given paradigm bound by any state of an object or event on a mass magnitude by prior states is defined as Determinism. The philosophical understanding of this theory is related to the understanding of chain of various events. Every event that occurs happens as a result … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp The survival of myth despite the advancement of science and philosophy in the classical Greek world can be explained by its connection with so many facets of Greek culture – education, literature, drama, art – and its importance in relation to religion, ritual and the after-life. Furthermore, the scale of the work on … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp Soritic thinking that is based on reasoning, which is entailed in the sorites paradox plays an important role in some forms of weakness of will. Such reasoning based on soritic thinking leads to failures of behavior, however, these behaviors cannot be revealed to be irrational by ordinary means. Logical paradoxes are not expected … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp This report includes concurrent programming and deadlocks that were created and analysed throughout the report. There are two parts that include in the report; The Sleeping Barber Problem and The Dining Philosophers. The report includes every method that was used to complete both parts; this includes explaining and describing. For my references I … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp Cybernetics is the interdisciplinary study of the structure of regulatory systems. Cybernetics is closely related to control theory and systems theory. Both in its origins and in its evolution in the second-half of the 20th century, cybernetics is equally applicable to physical and social (that is, language-based) systems. Artificial Intelligence and cybernetics: Aren’t … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp We know that the sun is very important to us but the main question is why. We all understand that the sun supplies Earth with never ending energy that we use in multiple ways. The energy comes in as heat and light and we transform the energy in different ways to create electricity. … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp “Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth” – Alan Watts. Personal Identity play its role as to define human with quality of its own which makes him or her a unique one. The identity of a person that is in question must be able to realize them, and … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp Ethical behaviour as it relates to the Counselling and Consulting Psychologist is a matter of “life and death”. Good ethical decisions lead to life, vibrancy and growth of the psychological practice. On the other hand, if a psychologist continues to make unethical decisions, especially where the right choice is evident and fairly easy … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp Educational research is important because it is conducted in order to provide trustworthy information regarding educational problems and their solutions. There are many things that need to be considered when looking at what educational research is for example some thought needs to be put into looking at current paradigms, what counts as evidence … Read More
Every murder perpetrated by poison, lying in wait, or any other kind of willful, deliberate, malicious, and premeditated killing; or committed in the perpetration of, or attempt to perpetrate, any arson, escape, murder, kidnapping, treason, espionage, sabotage, aggravated sexual abuse or sexual abuse, child abuse, burglary, or robbery; or perpetrated as part of a pattern … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp Since ancient times people had different opinions as to the natural world creation and human nature. The development of theoretical thinking and philosophy represent a long process, the conditions of which can be found at early stages of human society. Ancient philosophical systems, trying to find the answer as to the origin, the … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp This paper will explore the relationship between religion and morals. Specifically, this paper will explore whether or not one would need to be religious in order to have morals or whether it is possible to be a descent being regardless of having a religion. One may wonder what society would be like if … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp If the scientific faith is not Islamic, can be denied in Islam i.e. which way should we go? Or we have a choice that whenever we want we can deny or whenever we want we can accept it. The exact meaning of science is to study. It is to study and understand any … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp In Information Management, we been thought about the relation between data, information, knowledge and wisdom, most of us, maybe who doesn’t familiar with the information management courses or principle, they can’t differentiate between data, information, knowledge and wisdom. Even these four components relate to each other’s, but it barely has lots of differences … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp The question ‘Are people rational decision makers?’ does not elicit a straight-forward response of yes or no. To answer this question, the various components must first be broken down and defined. Following that, the assorted strategies people utilise in decision making will be discussed. Subsequently a rational decision making model will be outlined … Read More
and also to determine between who and where it occurs in order for it to contribute the pursuit of knowledge. Disagreement is a conflict of people’s diversity of opinions or actions or characters. There are approximately 7 billion people in the world from different backgrounds, cultures, with a wide age range, and also variety of … Read More
Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp Hedonism is defined as the desire to get oneself in pleasure and happiness. The feeling is controlled from within and can only be stopped, minimized or redirected by one self. It’s portrayed as something good and does not involve pain. The theory argues that people are continually looking for something that will give … Read More
