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    What best describes me in the moral philosophy when making conclusions that best represents my personal and workplace when making decisions is Utilitarianism. Utilitarianism is defined as an individual decides on decisions based on everyone. “Utilitarianism is a form of consequentialism because it rests in the mind that it is the consequences or results of actions, laws, policies, and so on that define whether they are good or bad, correct or wrong” (Fieger, 2014). Agreeing to our text…

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    time. There are also some points wherein they have the same idea, but they are opposite for the most part. This paper is going to discuss those differences, and point out the exactitude of why there is that difference. Let us start with a brief history. Hegel was born in 1831. A time wherein…

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    From the age of eight to sixteen years, Kant attended the Collegium Fridericianum, a Pietist school dedicated to the instruction of mathematics, history, geometry, and above all, Latin. In 1740, Kant matriculated at the University of Konigsberg. Under the inspiration of his favorite teacher, Kant immersed himself in the study of natural science and philosophy. In fact, it was his teacher, Martin Knutzen, who introduced him to the writings of the two thinkers who had the greatest impact on his…

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    most influential philosophers in history. In addition to the litany of ideas and thoughts he contributed to the eternally evolving world of philosophy, Marx is also a premiere example of how philosophers build of one another’s work. Marx drew from many of his predecessors, but there were two in particular that influenced Marx tremendously. Both Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Charles Darwin, made astronomical impacts on Karl Marx’s belief system and philosophy, and undoubtedly prove that prior…

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    Andrew Levitt Mr. Eddlem US History H1 2-18-16 Ralph Waldo Emerson and G.K. Chesterton were both important American author’s. Both of them wrote about religion in their writings Orthodoxy (Chesterton) and Self-Reliance (Emerson). However, the views and philosophies expressed in the writings oppose each other in many ways. Each author had other accomplishments besides these two pieces of literature, but these two will be focused on as they express the discussed view-points. While both men were…

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    According to a book written by Piero Scaruffi (2011), titled “History of Knowledge”, basically knowledge begins 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…

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    enrich the pre-existing curriculum. Many of the ideas that Adler had are still relevant today. Many works on which he focused on are often used in the curriculums. Adler was deeply impacted by the ideas of Aristotle. He also felt that the Perennials philosophy was very important and it held a lot of weight. Adler experienced many critics along the way, as many people believed that what he was teaching was too hard for the average person to understand. Despite this, Adler could create over 400…

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    knowledge in relation to history, philosophy and poetry. Secondly, the nature of poetry is also defined, and its content…

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    to Western civilization, seeing as how crucial their presence in history has been. Their achievements in art, philosophy, history, and science all helped to shape the growth of society as we know it. Many of these cultural aspects began with Greece’s Golden Age. It was a time of peace and cultural prosperity, and it was the time which most of Greece’s contributions to Western civilization originated. The general aspect of philosophy, democracy, and architecture all began with the ancient Greeks.…

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    Bergson: Time, Memory and Modernism Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay Henri Bergson (1859 – 1941) was a French philosopher whose philosophy had a marked influence on later 19th century poetry and also on 20th century modernist thought. In my presentation, I will outline in brief Bergson’s key philosophical thoughts and how they influenced modernist literature. Bergson maintained that in animals, evolution caused a division between the instinct and the intellect. Although the two are not exclusive of…

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