Dialectic

Karl Heinrich Marx was born on 5 May 1818 in Germany, when Europe was going through rapid social changes after the Industrial Revolution and the French Revolution. His interest in philosophy was greatly influenced by a German philosopher, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, when he read about his works at University. Subsequently, he gained understanding from the materialistic ideas of Ludwig Feuerbach and further developed them into his own sociological theories. Marx discovered that the society…

solution-focused approach to treatment, oriented toward solving problems and learning skills “Beck Institute”. CBT has several different approaches a therapist can use: Rational Emotive Behavior (REBT), Rational Living Therapy (RTL), Cognitive Therapy (CT) and Dialectic Behavior Therapy (DBT). The Founder of Cognitive Behavior Therapy is Dr. Albert Ellis and co-founder Aaron Beck, MD of psychiatrist. Dr. Albert Ellis was a clinical a psychologist. Ellis vbvbvbvREBT was developed by Ellis…

In Meditations on First Philosophy Rene Descartes attempts to reconcile a Christian metaphysics with a new epistemology contrary to the scholastic, Aristotelian worldview. He seeks new foundations that knowledge can be built upon and tries to accomplish this by identifying basic, indubitable axioms to derive more complex truths by. As Descartes had a background in mathematics and geometry, these tenets are proposed alike mathematical truths in that they are self-evidential. He calls these axioms…

Felicity, Is it subjective or objective? Do people strive to attain happiness by means of their own understanding of the world? Can it be compared to reality, where we try to base our view of what is real and true as much as we are capable of through own perhaps incomplete reasoning? Likewise for happiness do we all devote our time to obtain that happiness as closely as possible, according to our own understanding or is it all just subjective? Have your heard of a cliché statements such as ‘Mind…

While Lamotte states, “Buddhists are assailed by a terror of desire” (Lamotte, 1961, p. 18), the Third Noble Truth reveals that there is an escape from dukkha: Nibbana. However, despite the number of books written about Nibbana (see for example, ‘Nibbana- The Ultimate Truth of Buddhism’ by Chandrkaew (1982); ‘In the Hope of Nibbana’ by King (2003) or Hsiao-Lun’s (2011) feminist interpretation of Nibbana in ‘This-Worldly Nibbana’), the state of ‘extinction’ remains shrouded in mystery. Pandit…

Although many educators never really think about it, philosophy plays a big role on how they choose to educate. Philosophy can be defined as “the general beliefs and attitudes of an individual or group and the body of principles underlying a branch of learning or major discipline” (Moore, 1988). Appling philosophical ideas helps educators to clarify what the purpose is of teaching a subject and why they are teaching it. “Behaviorist adult education focuses on behavioral modification,…

feet of a compass through the lines: As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if the other do. John Freccero states that: “The poem reversed a traditional figure and gave to the neo-Petrarchan dialectic of presence and absence a new metaphysical meaning. As…

McNiff’s diagram inspired me to construct my own illustration of practice. I have attempted to show how my numerous research cycles has linked, each informing the practice of the next whilst also depicting how the process has supported the strengthening of my identity as a leader. The need to construct such a map of my journey directed me to look more closely into the differences I experienced between my personal, professional and academic identity. The diagram shown in figure 5 shows how…

Michel Foucault is considered one of the leading theorists in the subject of "discourse", he believes that "in every society the production of discourse is at once controlled, selected, organized and redistributed by a certain number of procedures whose role is to ward off its powers and dangers, to gain mastery over its chance events, to evade its ponderous, formidable materiality." (Foucault, 52) Accordingly, Edward Said has used Foucault's concept of discourse to analyze Orientalism; in "The…

The myth of Er tells a story and gets away from the dialectic nature of the rest of the argument. The previous arguments in Republic use deductive reasoning in an attempt to discover the truth. In comparison, the myth of Er is anecdotal evidence. Ironically, the myth of Er is similar to the myths in epic…