Ontology

Jungian Archetypes in “Perseus” The use of Jungian archetypes in the Roman myth, “Perseus,” demonstrates common unconscious prototypes that humanity as a whole shares. In addition, analyzing the myth through these archetypes enlightens modern society about why we have the preconceived images that we do about our societal roles. The Jungian archetype theory has been used for many years to analyze myth, as well as religious and psychological ideas. The definition of the word archetype without the…

How do models of God’s agency change between Al-Farabi, Ibn Sina, and Ibn Rushd? Why? Is the change successful? The Islamic philosophers Al-Farabi, Ibn Sina and Ibn Rushd discuss Gods agency. They do however differ on the extent to what gods attributes are and his role in the universe. While Al-Farabi has a more of neo-platonic take, Ibn-Sina has Aristotelian approach and Ibn Rushd’s take is more of a reconciliation between Islam and the principles of philosophy. Al-Farabi Part (2 paragraphs,…

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…

In this essay I will give an account of Thomas Kuhn’s incommensurability thesis. I begin by clarifying what Kuhn meant by a paradigm and then proceed to give a clarification of two interpretations of Kuhn’s thesis of incommensurability that will be addressed separately in this essay. I then provide an objection to the first interpretation of the incommensurability thesis, which I believe it fails to overcome. I proceed to describe Kuhn’s understanding of the incommensurability of meaning of…

1. Why was the article by Michael Buckland, “Histories, heritages, and the past: The case of Emanuel Goldberg” was given as the first reading for the course? The case of Emmanuel Goldberg illustrates the convoluted path back to the origin of an idea as well as the factors that contributed to its blurred out past. His work shows the intricacies of social memory, as the ‘erasure’ of Emmanuel Goldberg and his life’s work was so multifaceted—confounded by politics, war, nationalism, physical…

However objectivity keeps on being an elusive objective at the down to earth level. Indeed one school of thought demonstrates that aggregate objectivity is a hallucination which can never be accomplished. Since all research is guided by specific perspectives and perspectives include subjectivity. The fundamental perspectives ought to be clarified. Further he felt that subjectivity creeps in at different stages over the span of sociological research. The exceptionally decision of topic is…

According Peter M. McGinnis (2013) the Newton’s first law is about the linear kinematic and is called law of Inertia. This law states that, ‘everybody continues in it states of rest, or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it’ (McGinnis, 2013, p.88). Simpler, the law of Inertia says that if there is no external force acts on a subject, that subject will not move and it will remain in states of rest or if it was moving it will…

The current thesis endeavors to access the notion of “ Nothing is true, everything is permitted.” What is truth? What is so intricately responsible and substantial as to justify the real in depths of truth? Is truth ‘true’? What is ‘true’ then? “To say that nothing is true, is to realize that the foundations of society are fragile, and that we must be the shepherds of our own civilization. Everything is permitted... is to understand that we are the architects of our actions and we must live…

Jordan Mashal Professor Landers PHI 344 24 Septemeber 2017 Dualism Prompt 1: The central claim of substance dualism relies on the non identity of the mind and the body. Gotfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, a German philosopher, articulated a law that defines the notion of identity as: for any x and y, if x is identical to y, then x and y have all the same properties. Further, any two things that have all and only the same properties as one another are identical to each other. Finally, if there is…

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…