Justified true belief

Blind Confidence People can hold firm trust in a person or aspects of life; we associate this feeling with being confident . When we claim someone is ignorant, we assume they have no actual knowledge over something or its topic . And we could mix both of these aspects together in one person then our reference would be a red hearing personality. The question I have is why some people if not most have done this at least once in their life span. We can accept to stand ground in something we have no…

Socrates devoted his life to honoring the gods through everyday actions. Socrates believes that the gods are inherently and exclusively good. What separates the gods from humans is their access to wisdom and their use of it for good. Through these beliefs, he justifies his lifelong mission to teach those around him that human wisdom is nonexistent and in order to truly honor the gods, one must put aside pretensions…

Having an upbringing with the belief in a religious God differs in comparison to the nurturing background where faith in a humans’ moral sense of right and wrong is strongly valued; these difference’s bring variations of individual characteristics and personalities to society. How can the moral and ethical beliefs of one person immensely influence their life choices? In Woody Allen’s Crimes and Misdemeanors, it follows two storylines where the protagonist Judah Rosenthal, commits serious…

Descartes’s goal is to look for necessary truths by examining beliefs based off of our senses. To do this, he must prove that sense perception is not a trustworthy source of information, as well as anything that proves some uncertainty as well. For instance, Descartes states that, “if I am able to find in each one some reason to doubt, this will be enough to justify rejecting it”(Descartes 73). This shows Descartes’s belief that if there is some uncertainty in the conclusions which have been…

Throughout Wilfred Smith's book The Meaning and End of Religion, he stresses his theory of religion and how it is being studied in the modern world. He conveys that each person has their own level of religiousness and spirituality whether it requires the proof of science or not and that many individuals often categorize the idea of religion into one box. In many religions, there is an inclination for people to associate religious symbols with sacredness instead of seeing them as a representation…

Questions 1. Assuming that all the details of Marlinspike's account are correct, do you think that Marlinspike acted ethically in rejecting the request from the telecom? Why, or why not? (15 pts) Marlinspike acted ethically in rejecting the request from the telecom if we consider below arguments – • As we assume that the details provided by Marlinspike are correct, so the information he provided is factual • An ultimatum to Marlinspike that he is working with the terrorist gang could also be…

Machiavelli criticizing Plato and Aristotle Machiavelli is a realist and is more concerned with how things should be in reality, and his clarifications are based on a real world. Plato is an idealist and he is just thinking of how the ideal world is, they leave in an imaginary world, while Aristotle is always talking about existing states (try to peruse virtue). Machiavelli wants everything to be real and exist in the real world, while Plato and Aristotle have assumes in their imaginary worlds…

populous should be more aware and cautious of this shift. In her essay "No Need to Call," Turkle expands on her belief to be cautious of the shift to technology-saturated communication by emphasizing specific aspects of personal testimonies. Though Turkle may not bash technologies role all together, she specifically argues to be alert, because technology provides a mask for people 's true selves and may make face-to-face communication…

obligation), only a few believe, if any that counseling is value-free. A large part of the Team discovery is clients who seek for counseling has some tied to religious or spiritual beliefs. The Reviewer however, believes that spiritual and religious issues sometimes are not the primary focus of seeking counseling, the belief of a higher-power remains to be a relevant demographic or cultural variable. Further, MHC agrees to “seek spiritual understanding of one’s place in the universe” and is…

For these readings I think I can classify them into two different categories as far as themes go. The first section from page 169-176 talked a lot about religion and how people viewed religion. In this selection William Blake explained though his poem There Is No Natural Religion (parts a and b) what he considers religion and how he feels religion must have come to be. He also explains in this poem how he feels there must be a divine entity to give humans complex thoughts because he argues that…