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    and Reason Faith and reason are acknowledged as the primary sources for justifying religious beliefs. Socrates has played an essential role in reconciling both faith and reason as seen in the Plato’s text “Crito” is a discussion by Socrates and Crito about Socrates jail sentence. Crito tries to convince him to escape before the trial because of the fear of death. However, Socrates does not agree with his suggestions and faces the trial. Crito tries to reason with him, but Socrates refuse because he believed that faith and reason were not important like following the law. This shows that Socrates has faith in the law and respects it is a reasonable source. Since faith and reason can be verified through humans, Socrates uses the questions to review those themes whilst trusting in the law using reason. Socrates alludes that both wisdom and knowledge can be reflected in practical action. In response to Crito’s planned escape, Socrates debunks his ideas by asking him to consider what he really believes rather than opting to do what the majority would even if it were wrong (Crito 30). With…

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    The relation between human dignity and practical reason is the justification of practically rational viewpoint which argues for the rationality normative status of the concept of human dignity in the action. The stand of this relation argues for how all human agents must necessarily accept that they are committed and obligated to respecting the dignity of others and that this is a practically rational point of view without rejecting the substantive nature of human dignity as value and the prior…

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    30% of Canadian inmates are Aboriginal and that’s not right. This is part of the reason why Aboriginal youth are more likely than other Canadian youth to join gangs or to be in trouble with the law. There are three main reasons for this. One reason is that Aboriginals get bullied by non-Aboriginal kids. This make them feel that gangs are a place where they belong. Another reason is survival. In gangs Aboriginals can get lots of money from selling drugs and guns to support their family. The final…

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    In the book, The Assault on Reason by Al Gore, the first chapter; “Introduction” is an excellent chapter that explains today’s America. Gore’s main point is how news media has changed with time, from the type of information it contains to the way it is spread to civilians. Also by the ways that government uses media as advertainment to win their elections. He also talks about the Founding Fathers plan to have a democratic country and having freedom of speech. Gore mainly argues about how…

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    The presence of a sort of tension between faith and reason has been innate to humans since people first started to question what the true purpose of life is. The existence of this separation could be clearly viewed by looking comparing Athens and Jerusalem, with Athens representing truth through reason and philosophy and Jerusalem representing truth through insights of revelation and purity of soul. Therefore, faith and reason have always posed tension by their proximity and their constantly…

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    How the Age of Reason Leads to the Revolution The Age of Reason is a movement that started in Europe and spread to America. This movement brought about the use of reason or rationale thinking, instead of tradition and established doctrine. People began thinking differently and realized they did not have to accept the ways of the past as the way of the future. Once the American colonists began to believe in these ideas, they began to question divine-right of kings and entrenched manners of…

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    Reason is not necessarily the means to the better life, or towards procuring ‘the good,’ from the view of these latter thinkers. It seems that Nietzsche would problematize the allegory of the den, in this respect, to no end. From a Nietzschean perspective, the relativity of our values, and the ways they merely reflect the power dynamics and social and political undercurrents of our age, begs the question of their effect on our reason (Nietzsche, 1989, p.46-47). The supposed ‘good’ or ‘moral…

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    Medea Passion Analysis

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    “Medea explores the tension between reason and passion”. Discuss It is within the very nature of humans to isolate the polarised forces of reason and passion, yet within his Greek tragedy Medea, Euripides demonstrates the “fatal results” of possessing a predisposition for either frame of mind. Indeed, the antagonistic relationship between Medea and society best contextualises the gripping antithesis between maintaining an acceptable outward demeanour and laying bare our inner impulses…

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    Ethos In A Beautiful Mind

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    It had shown what the power of love can do and how it can change your life around. He had shown this in his speech by saying “I’m only here tonight because of you.” Without the love of his wife, he could possibly be in a mental hospital all his life. Or worse, he could of injured himself which can lead to death. It was her love, what kept him alive. He clearly stated to everyone that it is love of all meaning by saying “And I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most…

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    Issues in Antidoping Strategies in Sport” by Norman C. Fost, it gives reasons about how the prohibition drugs in athletics have moral principles. Fost is arguing about how prohibiting such drugs is no clear moral principles. I will be analyzing two argument claims in the article of Fost and will also be evaluating Frost’s argument in agreeing with his arguments and reasons. Fost argues about what things are harmful and explains why it is not a good moral claim reason to prohibit steroids because…

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