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With the end of the Cold War, conflicts among smaller nation states have become increasingly common and violent.
Choose from one of the following schools of thought in epistemology or metaphysics: Write down a 1,050- to 1,750-word paper describing the concept selected. Include the following in your paper:
Please discuss Plato's understanding of rationalism and human knowing and how his Allegory of the Cave depicts this understanding and parallels Christian thought.
Explain determinism. What is James' critique of determinism? Is it successful? Now consider Grimshaw's account of internal and external constraints that complicate the question of autonomy.
Discuss of the differences between rationalism and empiricism when discussing epistemological issues. Further reading resources.
Descartes tells us that, in order to see what is real, we must first doubt all we know with our senses. Our senses can deceive us. Are we dreaming? Are we being manipulated by an evil genius?
In Plato's allegory of the caveb, you encounter one of the most powerful philosophical ways to deal with the problem of reality. Provide a brief account of the allegory, explaining the main symbols
A discussion of Plato's understanding of rationalism and human knowing and how his Allegory of the Cave depicts this understanding and parallels Christian thought.
Based upon Aristotle's science of the first philosophy, examine how Aristotle's metaphysics might guide contemporary people to knowledge regarding the world.
The historical development of determinism, existentialism an dualism. who the main contributors were and the evolution of how each grew out of original field of epistemology or metaphysics.
Summarize Plato's story of the Cave. Discuss the Five of Aquinas. Critically Existentialism, noting 3 major Philosophers who subscribed to the view.
Locate and give a synopsis in an article published in the last 5 years that discusses a philosopher or a school of philosophy. What were the basic assumptions?
Please help me with complete and concise explanation of Plato's Theory of forms and the myths relating to the Forms, including discussions of the Sun, the Line and the Cave.
What is the meaning of life? This is, surely, ultimate philosophical question. We are here. We spend our days making a living, having little fun and feeling some pain, meeting people with background
Compare and contrast soft and hard determinism, referring to philosophers who held each view. ( Mill, heisenberg,and Hume).
Distinguish between actions that are voluntary and involuntary. Have you ever been concerned with an action that was less than fully voluntary?
To what extent is human behavior determined by external and internal influences? Do we have free will? Can these two ways of accounting for human action be reconciled with each other?
Do you believe that individual human beings survive their own deaths? Notice that your answer to this question needs to be consistent with your position on other aspects of human nature.
There're various concepts associated with Presocratics that appear to have been decisive in development of philosophy and science.
The Greek account of creation of universe gives us a peek in the minds of primitive man. This account of the creation reveals a stark contrast to modern-day versions of the creation.
Summarize and discuss the key differences between the various models or analogies of nature outlined by R. G. Collingwood in the idea of nature.
Some philosophers, like Kierkegaard, find it reasonable to believe in God in their philosophical enterprise while others do not.
Considering the historical development of religious philosophy, whose philosophies do you think most advanced Western religious thought?
Discuss what is a fallacy and show the particular flaws in reasoning that correspond with the two listed below Composition and division
Recognize an area that would be considered to be pseudoscientific, such as astrology, palm reading, and ESP. Find evidence for claims made by these fields, and explain why this evidence is pseudosci