Empiricism

Non-profit organizations are significant contributors to social and economic well-being throughout the world. The main objective of a non-profit organization is to serve a social purpose rather than an economic purpose, while maintaining community legitimacy and financial sustainability (Moss, Short, Payne, & Lumpkin, 2010). However, despite the noble purpose and good intentions of most non-profit organizations, the non-profit sector is not immune to toxic leadership nor the damage caused by…

In Aristotle 's ethics, Book 1: the theory of happiness, Aristotle claims that there are some aims in the nature of man that influences every movement of the mind and every activity of the body, consciously or unconsciously. A man is incessantly striving to attain a ‘good’ or purpose of existence. According to Aristotle, there is a point in the purposes of man where the gradation of good (lower goods becoming subordinate to higher ones) ceases. It is this very point in man’s life where the mind…

According to a book written by Piero Scaruffi (2011), titled “History of Knowledge”, basically knowledge begins when the earliest civilizations appear in Mesopotamia, Egypt, India and China, they are largely restrained by their natural environment and the climate. Religion, Science and the Arts is largely determined by additional factors-human, such as the seasons and flooding. Throughout centuries, humans have succeeded in changing the equation in their favor, reducing the impact of natural…

The main method of social analysis that is depicted in Marxist tradition is philosophy. Marxist tradition finds that in order to do social analysis and understand societies, one needs to approach them with a historical or dialectical materialist standpoint. Two Marxist thinkers who contemplate over how to properly practice analyzing societies are Mao and Althusser. In this paper I m going to show how both Mao and Althusser approached using social science in order to better analyze societies. I…

to Nicholas Walter (1997), humanism is a philosophical and ethical stance grounded in the belief of the importance of the value and agency of human beings, individually and collectively, and relies on critical thinking and evidence (rationalism, empiricism) over acceptance of dogma or superstition. Furthermore, the British Humanist Association acknowledges humanism as grounded in the belief that the life we humans live is the only life that we have, that the universe is a natural phenomenon with…

In the book The Integration of Psychology and Theology, Carter and Narramore present several aspects and issues regarding the integration of Psychology and Theology. The main focus of the book revolves around four different models of integration. The four models are; the against model, the of model, the parallels model, and the integrates model. The first chapter of the book focuses on people’s thoughts and perceptions on the idea of integrating psychology and theology. One of the main…

The battle between Good and Evil is never-ending. This pointless and unquenchable clamor came to fruition mere seconds before the forbidden fruit was picked off the calamitous tree. Writers from all walks of life have taken the liberty of exemplifying this redundant storyline through the fruits of their imagination, immortalizing the endless battle. Whether this is illustrated through the townspeople and an unruly king, peasants and the aristocrats, or even a nation against omnipotent deities,…

often the burial place for a king or a queen and it was believed that the shape of the pyramid was used as a stairway for his/her majesty to access the god’s world. Finally, the confidence the Egyptians had in their beliefs will necessarily lead to empiricism over time because some will no more be satisfy with faith as a system of belief and research for explanations through experience or observation. A good example is illustrated through Thales. He was the first philosopher to question the…

humans are much more complex (Henderson & Thompson, 2011). The basis for behavioral therapy stems from three major ideas, reductionism, determinism, and empiricism (Henderson & Thompson, 2011). Reductionism refers to analyzing actions to the ultimate origin which is biology (Henderson & Thompson, 2011). Determinism suggests that all…

get to see how it was used to influence others in future generations. “During the twentieth century positivism was a dominant philosophy used to make sense of natural and social science. Many scholars made sense of their work using the tenets of empiricism and derivative philosophies, such as positivism, behaviorism, pragmatism and instrumentalism. Pragmatists and instrumentalists, such as Charles Sanders Peirce, William James and Dewey employed some of the tenets of Comtean positivism during an…