Avicenna

Both Avicenna and Thomas Aquinas articulately explain the nature of the Divine Intellect in their respective works The Salvation, “Metaphysics” and Summa Contra Gentiles: Book One: God. They offer arguments that contrast one another concerning the divine intellect, and in particular, God’s ability to intellect singulars. Despite the convincing nature of Avicenna’s proofs, Aquinas effectively proves God’s knowledge of singulars by a sound argument that supports God’s knowledge of singulars, a proof that necessitates this reality, and in turn, provides an argument that undercuts the necessity that God cannot intellect singulars. For this topic, complexity often ensues when explaining how an eternal and unchanging God knows the changing individuals that man experiences. As the foundation of the question…

Plato looked at the soul in parts. Plato’s notion of the soul was with motives. The question then arises for the soul to have basic human motives. These motives, which can be qualitatively different from one another, usually have pleasure as the soul motive. Words like love and hate are just degrees to these motives. For Plato, he only believed in the rulers, guardians, and business. Plato thought that the individuals psych should mirror the political. The business class being the largest, was…

The allegory of the sun is an important metaphor in the Republic of Plato because it helps the reader comprehend how philosophers understand the Form of the Good, which therefore allows for an understanding of justice. Plato uses the metaphor of the sun to compare the role of the philosophers with a concrete image. By comparing the philosopher king to the sun he is demonstrating how much power and knowledge the philosophers obtain through their intense and lengthy education. The sun is the…

Doubtful Dreams As any other philosopher, Rene Descartes was driven by the need to find the undeniable truth. He was very upset when he realized as a young man that many of the things he was taught in school was scarcely supported by evidence, if not out right false (Pojman & Vaughn, 2011, p.487). Therefore, when he began his foray into philosophy, he decided would deny and ignore all previously accepted opinions and build an entirely new foundation of truth to build on (Tweyman, 2013,…

“Make a habit of two things: to help, or at least to do no harm. Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity. Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.” -Hippocrates Hippocrates is one of the most magnificent figures in the history of western medicine. He was born on the island of Kos and lived from approximately 460 – 375 B.C.E. Throughout his lifetime, Hippocrates is believed to have traveled throughout Greece and Asia Minor…

Most modern, Western citizens would not question the idea that they are a separate and autonomous being, completely independent and different in every way from their neighbor. When asked, some might answer that what makes them different is their personality, their soul, or their mind. The discrepancy lies in the fact that, between individuals, all of these can be similar. Does that imply that two individuals who are similar in personality have less of a ‘self’ than someone who is vastly…

Q.1.1 Claudius Galenus, or Galen (129 – c. 216 AD), was an important and influential Greek physician in the Roman Empire. He is credited with laying out a new standard in medicine that had considerable influence on medical practice for more than a millennium (Cook, 2015). The letters exchanged between Peter the Venerable, an abbot of a monastery at Cluny (in France) and Bartholomaeus, a physician, date back to the year 1150, a time when Galenic ideas in medicine were being practiced and followed…

Participation Summary Morgan Oldroyd entered Gemstone Residential Program on 2/16/17. During her stay at Gemstone, Morgan had the opportunity to participate in a variety of treatment programs, some being; Adapt, Why Try, Girls Moving On, Seeking Safety, Carey Guides and Forward Thinking Packets. She also participated in volunteer activities such as; Employment, Values, Talk Circle, boxing, YWCA (Young Women’s Council Association), and Healthy Relationships. Morgan participates in all available…

Thus far we have learned a great deal about the development and implementation of the evidence based practice (EBP) guidelines, now the next important step would be how to effectively apply the EBP to clinical practice. According to Field and Lohr (1990), "Clinical practice guidelines are systematically developed statements to assist practitioner and patient decisions about appropriate health care for specific clinical circumstances." (p. 38). What I liked most about this statement and would…

Evidence base practice has been applied in all health care setting, every day nursing practice. Nursing and all professional are encourage to incorporate and utilized the available resource and guideline to their practice for quality patient outcomes. Evidence base practice is vital in nursing practice and it evident in quality care. For the following reasons, the process of EBP has to be monitored through ongoing quality monitoring and improvement. Another evidence-based practice currently…