Presupposition

charge” against the “strongly anti-democratic basis to Socrates’ teaching,” the other positing “a Socrates totally without irony and utterly sincere in his desire to convince the jury of his innocence.” He notes that both these theories share the presupposition that the charge of impiety was a “side issue.” Emlyn-Jones strives to demonstrate that this is an unnecessary assumption. He does this by examining what…

Looking back before I attended Campbellsville University, I noticed a shift in culture and the way people communicated specifically during the 1980’s. The mindset of the people were changing in the direction of exercising there liberty in what they believed was right for their lives. Although the 1960’s progressed, widespread social tensions developed concerning things such as women’s rights, traditional modes of authority, and differing interpretations of the American dream. As the era unfolded…

Selena Barreira Karl Marx Notes on: The German Ideology, The Communist Manifesto, and Capital Volume 1 Chapter 26: “The Secret of Primitive Accumulation” In chapter 26 of Marx’s Capital, he discusses a concept known as primitive accumulation and its role in political economy. He begins the chapter describing the process if how money is changed into capital, “how through capital surplus-value is made, and from surplus-value more capital” (461). But through this process there is a never-ending…

Fieldwork challenges are salient in both of Mendoza (2008) and Peterson (2011), as both of them have worked with the youth and in classroom setting, and deconstructed presuppositions that both had or encountered. What is interesting, and perhaps related to my situation, is that Mendoza was categorized as doing “auto-ethnography”, which is in my case critical, and thus not showcasing my optionality will be detrimental to my research. Starting with a surface deconstruction of the sign system used…

wanted the Bible to say. Another of the three methods of interpretation is literary. Literary interpretation analyzes the text from a literary standpoint. One who is interpreting the text in this way would look at literary devices, and theological presuppositions within the Bible. The last method of interpretation that one may use when reading the Bible is contextual. A contextual interpretation takes into account the readers environment, biases, and other things that effect how the reader sees…

David Crystal begins with “Why a global language?” by asking what it means for a language to have a global status, what merits and demerits makes a global language, and “Why we need a global language?” David Crystal propose that “a language become a global language because of the political and military power of its people” when people use a language as an official language in purposes of communication, international marketing and advertising, in the law court, in media and in educational system…

1. (250 words max.) Heraclitus says the following: “Of the Logos which is as I describe it men always prove to be uncomprehending” (KRS fr. 194). What is this “logos” that is so incomprehensible for human beings? The logos describes the persisting constitution of the cosmos. Heraclitus claims the logos is “common” and perceivable, and although everything passes in accordance to the logos, many fail to comprehend it (Heraclitus, Fragment 2, 55). Heraclitus claims that to understand the cosmos,…

Being a thinker who can apply both critical and creative thinking is necessary for increasing the level of competence in performing certain tasks and dealing with daily life. Both types of these thinking need to be nurtured because both of the thinking abilities can guarantee the beneficial and development of one’s personal life, educational level, wider views and economic development. Creative and critical thinking skills are considered essential for students (Crane, 1983). He claimed that both…

Gregory Bateson, an English anthropologist, once said “Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.” In a place and time where many individuals take the word of scientists as law, we must be careful to remember this fact. We cannot assume that because a teacher or scientist or uses the statement “science has proven” that they are unquestionably correct; it is our duty to teach this generation and the next that science is fallible and preserve…

the term “culture”, I find it necessary to define both of these terms, world view and culture. The very popular Christian missiologist and anthropologist, Paul G. Hiebert, describes the term “world view” as “the vital cognitive, and evaluative presuppositions a society of people generate about the nature of things, and which they use to structure their lives. Worldviews are what people in a community take as given realities, the maps they have of reality that they use for existing” (Heibert,…