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Valley High School (VHS) in West Des Moines, Iowa is one of the biggest and most successful schools in Iowa. Valley offers a large range of academic courses, a dominating athletics program, a strong arts department, and a long list of activities for its students. However, recently, deep racial disparities have been uncovered as a result of race related fights at the school which led into school shooting threats. Valley asked an Iowa State team to conduct a study to help empiricize the racism,…

questionable leaps and seemingly ignore one potentially devastating point altogether, his position is clear and strong. I will begin by reconstructing Descartes’ argument, cover the grievances listed above, and then hope to argue that, despite these objections, Descartes’ position remains a sound metaphysical view. In the Sixth Meditation, Descartes begins by declaring that, firstly, all things one can clearly and distinctly perceive can be created by God, and secondly, if one can clearly and…

Will Abrahamson 11/30/17 Phil: 1153 Machines and Free Will Thesis: I believe that machines have free will. The definition of free will I am going to use for this paper comes from Thomas Hobbes. It basically states that; they’re being nothing preventing us from doing what we want to do . In the case of this definition, we are not the cause of free will, there is no obstacle in our way is. This view is called “compatiblism” according to the Stanford Enclyopedia of Philosophy and Hobbes…

The article “Imperialism, Power and Identity: Experiencing the Roman Empire” by David Mattingly is a comprehensive study of the various historical interpretations of the Roman Empire, and is an attempt to present new ideas about studying antiquity itself, and the relationship between the Romans. Mattingly is essentially calling for a reform in the scholarship of such, with an emphasis on a more critical review of the ‘benevolence’ of Roman rule, in addition to overthrowing the ‘unhelpful’ and…

The objections suggest other things that might be considered omnipresent. For example, numbers, universals and prime matter can be considered to exist everywhere. If we think about the whole world as a sort of unity then we might claim that it is everywhere present…

Analysis of Leibniz cosmological argument for the existence of God The purpose of cosmological arguments is to start with the subject the universe and trace it back to the root that being the cause which according to Leibniz is an infinite necessary being. Profound philosophers used this method in order to enable the general public and academics to seeing the correlation between the universe, and its source God. Leibniz’s main objective was to take Aquinas 's foundation within his cosmological…

not eat farm factory meat since it is not worth our own gustatory pleasure. In this essay I will argue that Norcross's is correct in stating that we are morally obligated to give up eating farm factory meat, and the idea of the causal impotence objection does not succeed. Norcross introduces his idea with the story of Fred. Fred is a man who has been put on trial for animal abuse of twenty-six puppies. The police found in his basement animal cages that gave the puppies no room to move, and it…

presented the idea that being destroyed and replicated is just as good as ordinary survival. This essay will focus on Parfit’s argument of the Branch Line Case and will examine why personal identity matters, a critical perspective and will discuss an objection and respond to the empty question. Parfit argued that being replicated then destroyed resulted in the same outcome as ordinary survival. From the analogy of the Branch Line case, a human body was scanned and then replicated. After the…

Suhrawardī and Jāmī on Wujūd Shahāb al-Dīn Yaḥyā al-Suhrawardī (d. 1191) in his Philosophy of Illumination proposes this radical view that wujūd is merely a being of reason (iʿtibār aqliyya) which does not exist (laysa bi-mawjūdin) in the extra-mental, concrete world. This view, however, was rejected by the fifteenth-century Persian poet and Sufi master in the Akbarian tradition, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Jāmī (d. 1492) of Herat in his Treatise on Existence. In this short essay, I begin by trying to…

Police officers now a days are not trusted or believed because of their past actions or possibly what they might do in the future. Police officers should be required to use body cameras. It will not only ensure that the police are following instructions but it will also ensure that they will not be using excessive force on anyone. Citizens will be able to see everything that happened in that case because most likely the footage will be released to the public to show what happened or so that…