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    The purpose of education, education philosophy, and motivation are all key components to being successful in the classroom. Everybody has heard the phrase, education is the key to success. Education has so many purpose some obvious and some are less. Education is used to teach both creative and analytical thinking, it is used to help spark curiosity and build a child imagination. Education is not a short time (k-12) experience but should be continuous…

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    appropriately and now they are treated poorly. She talked about wanting to open a natural philosophy school, but she couldn’t because she was a woman: “Were it allowable for our sex, I might set up my own school of natural philosophy. … For thought the muses [and] Graces … are all of the female gender, yet they were more esteemed in the former ages, than they are now.” (doc. 9). During this time period many political, or natural, philosophers pioneered the boundaries of the power of the church…

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    David Hume, a philosopher from the eighteenth century, is best known for his philosophy of empiricist naturalism, an evolution of the ideas originally conceived by the philosopher Locke. With his philosophy, Hume aspired to "do for human nature what Isaac Newton did for nonhuman nature" (Melchart 395), and to explain the intricacies of human nature in an understandable way. The beginning of natural empiricist thought comes from Hume's division of our experiences with the world into two…

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    during the social and intellectual movement of the 18th Century Enlightenment Period. Initiated by the Scientific Revolution, it further expounded on the philosophy of a natural and humanistic approach to seeking answers to our how man and the world came to exist, thus quelling the absolutism of God. Rooted in classical Greek Aristotelian philosophy, the new world thinking…

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    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 events on their civilization and enhance the effect of their civilization in nature for better and for worse. How…

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    Throughout His creation, God leaves imprints of truth through natural revelation for those who possess the will to find it. In their quest for absolute truth, PreSocratic philosophers caught glimpses of God’s signs leading to the truth of eternal life. This search culminates in Socrates, who through his lifelong search for truth gains an image of the soul and eternal life similar to the Catholic concept of eternal life. In the Phaedrus, Socrates says that when all divine souls “go to feast at…

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    Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason played a significant role in the world of philosophy. Some people would argue that Kant was a philosophical genius, but others would argue that he failed to lay a proper foundation of philosophy. Several German philosophers responded to his work and some even devoted their writings strictly to offering a response to the Critique. Even though these philosophers agreed on a few things regarding philosophy, they did not agree on everything. Johann Gottlieb Fichte and…

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    western philosophy. Socrates received a basic Greek education and worked as a mason for many years before he dedicated his life to philosophy.He was married Xanthippe, who gave him three children; Lamprocles, Sophroniscus and Menexenus. Anyhow, Socrates mostly known to the world through one of the best quotes “As for me, all I know is that I know nothing” – a famous quote described the humble and modest attitude of one of the most famous Athenian philosopher. Socrates whispered that philosophy…

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    and Epicurus are two Greek philosophers who had a significant impact on the people of their time based on their philosophical ideas, concepts, and theories. However, many of Aristotle’s views on ethics are still incorporated into modern philosophy. Their philosophies are quite different yet shared many commonalities. Aristotle’s Theory of Virtue in comparison to Epicurus’ Theory of Hedonism is substantially more realistic and more solid. A society would be better thriving off of Aristotle’s…

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    Essay On Deontology

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    Philosophy: in ancient times it was the driving force of people’s beliefs on how they should go about their everyday lives. Today, it is the backbone of many Theist’s and even Atheist’s beliefs, or lack thereof. For example, Christianity’s Ten Commandments “thou shalt not steal, [and] thou shalt not kill” (Bible, Exodus 20:1-17) has many things in common with Deontology, which is the stance that something is either right or wrong and the right thing should be done no matter the circumstance. On…

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