Existence

Rationalists say that knowledge is based off reason and that without reason we wouldn’t be able to make to make anything from our senses and surroundings. Rationalists claim that we are born with several fundamental concepts or categories in our minds. These fundamental concepts are also called innate knowledge, for example, time or space. According to rationalism knowledge is based of self-evident truths. An example of a self-evident truth is that all bachelors are unmarried. This is simply…

Stroud’s aim in his work, “The Problem of the External World”, is to assess whether or not skepticism of the eternal world is correct through his analysis of Descartes, and provide supporting arguments for this assessment. Stroud concludes that skepticism of the external world cannot be successfully undermined, stating, “The only answer to the question as it is meant to be understood is that we can know nothing about the world around us”(Stroud). The empirical skeptic’s claim is that one…

Startling Physics Of The Universal Solvent... " There isn't anything softer and weaker than water, and nonetheless there isn't anything better for assaulting arduous and rugged things." We are all cognizant of the fact that 65% of our bodies and 75% of earth is composed of water and also are familiar to some of its properties yet it stands out to be intensely mysterious. Several of its properties are so strange that even to this day they elude scientific apprehension. • Mpemba Effect: A…

Larkin and Eliot vary in their view on time. For Eliot, time is ceaselessly present from the spiritual point of view. Through time, time is conquered .But Larkin believes that changes are predictable in time’s domain and the past is past and is never to be regained, “time and time over. “To the constant flux of time, man is in thrall and a victim” (Larkin, CP).So time is not an abstract idea but has “eroding agents” to bring out ill-effects in life. So time conquers man in its eternal flux.…

Even though I believe in change and its power, change cannot be pervasive in every realm. Such as change in approach to race, religion, equality and etc. However, the movie Gandhi made me realize that it is not as utopian as I thought; it can be achieved by faith. The adventure of Gandhi began at train to South Africa, later on continued in India. This adventure transformed him who is a little Indian attorney into Mahatma (Great Soul) and pioneer of nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience.…

No. We disagree with Dr. Merrick’s justification. This is because human clone is living things. The human clone would be every bit as much a human being. The act of Dr. Merrick is an act of murdering another living things, it is as much as if you had killed a random stranger. Besides, the successful clone would probably have a very drastic life. As it may be cloned by an adult so he or she will have a shorter lifetime. The human clone will not have the same human rights and will be…

The consistency that exists between the divine foreknowledge possessed by God and an individual’s ability to freely choose what they desire is an issue discussed by Augustine in his work Free choice of will bk. 3. Inherently, the ideals of divine foreknowledge and free choice of will are contradictory to one another as is it is impossible for an individual to possess free choice of will if the outcome that awaits the individual is known to God. Divine foreknowledge, which allows God the…

In this stage people rely on supernatural agencies to explain things that are unexplainable. It is believed that the universe is “not governed by invariable law of sequence but by single and direct volitions of beings, real or imaginary, possessed of life and intelligence”(Maheshwari, 2013). People believe that all phenomena are created and influenced by gods and supernatural forces. According to Comte “all theoretical conceptions, whether general or special bear a supernatural…

Al-Ghazzali: Mathematics and Religion Abu Hamid al-Ghazzali is known as one of the most influential thinkers in Muslim history. He lived from 1058-1111 and spent his life as a jurist, theologian, philosopher, and logician. Al-Ghazzali grew up and studies in a time of major change and innovation within Islamic culture. As the Islamic culture developed and spread to new areas, the cultures of many foreign areas began interacting and influencing the Islamic growth. While al-Ghazzali focused…

Beyond creating the self-moving Beest, the materials and methods of which Jansen described are fundamental to what makes him an artist, and more specifically, a kinetic sculptor. Within his Beest sculptures, Jansen employs several of the elements and principles of art. Through his ever-present use of tubing, Jansen creates several vertical and horizontal lines, these come together to form geometric shapes, and the overall structure is a form composed of several smaller forms, often cubes. Both…