Skepticism

A Contrasting Analysis on the Theme of Reasoning in Pico della Mirandola's "Oration on the Dignity of Man" and Michel Eyquem de Montaigne's "Apology for Raimond Sebond" This philosophical study will provide a contrast analysis on the theme of reasoning in Mirandola’s "Oration on the Dignity of Man” and Montaigne’s “Apology for Raimond Sebond.” Mirandola’s essay defines how God’s omnipotence provides human beings with free will and the powers of reasoning. This Neoplatonic perspective defines…

wrestling team during my junior year of high school and went into this new environment with 0 years of prior training and 16 years of “Girls don’t really wrestle”. I was determined to excel during my first wrestling experience to challenge the skepticism that surrounded girl wrestlers. Despite this resolve, I was terrified at the thought of having to actually wrestle someone, so when I found out that my first wrestling match would be against a small, unassuming girl 20 pounds lighter than me, I…

Have you ever walked into a local grocery store, meandered through an aisle and thought, "Wow, I see this brand everywhere?" It's there at birthday parties, your grandma’s house, in the hand of that really rude neighborhood who plays drums all night and maybe in your own pantry. Imagine how much money and gratification its creator amasses. When did it become so popular? Or rather, how? A Classic Case In the early 1900s, Crisco was chemically crafted by candle maker William Procter and his…

hemmed in by gene patents”, “prices of patented and exclusively licensed tests are not dramatically or consistently higher than those of tests without a monopoly”and “ dire predictions that patents will cripple genetics research should be viewed with skepticism on both sides of the atlantic”.The underlying outcome is that there is no harmful issue with gene patenting. The summary of both articles used that they used facts and statistics to prove which is a better way of handling the business of…

Throughout time, there has been much debate about the authorship of William Shakespeare’s theatrical pieces. Many theories have been developed over time, all crediting various individuals with the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays, but none have been truly accepted as the outright truth as there are “more than 5,000 books on the Shakespeare authorship question with more than 50 possible candidates.” (PDF from oxford) To thoroughly formulate a coherent argument towards discrediting Shakespeare…

On May 15, 2007, Andrew J. Bacevich received news that his son, First Lt. Adrew John Bacevich, had been killed by a bomb while on patrol in Iraq. As disheartening and as sad as this is, it seems to have only added to the views the author upholds. This grievous incident seems be what spurred on Bacevich’s need to write his books and tell America exactly what is wrong with it. In 2008, a year after the loss of his son, Andrew Bacevich published The Limits of Power: The End of American…

In the beginning of the poem, Philip Larkin uses nature, superstitious, and religious imagery to show the advancing movement of agnostics in the world. In the first lines of the poem, the persona enters a church and observes all of the religious items decorating the chapel, but he only sees the religious place of prayer as, “Another church: matting, seats, and stone,/ And little books; sprawlings of flowers, cut/ For Sunday, brownish now;” (3-5). The speaker concludes that this church looks just…

diseases such as cancer, hiv, and alzheimer's. Although there is potential for greatness, a lot of people don’t like the fact that humans are playing “God” or that it could lead to people abusing the powers of genetical engineering. There is some skepticism towards this topic, but benefits in my opinion outweigh the negatives and it seems illogical to suppress this technology. Creating a future where painful, deadly, and infectious diseases are eradicated seems ideal. With the advances of…

philosophers, Philonous and Hylas, running into each other while strolling through a college campus. Hylas expresses that he is concerned with some of the ideas that other philosophers believe in. He thinks that those “who believe nothing at all (skepticism)” and those “who believe the most extravagant things in the world” are not doing the philosophical community justice and are misleading common people. He fears that if a common person hears about things that directly contradict common sense…

After receiving the assignment to participate in the Fishbank Renewable Resource Management Simulation exercise I was a little bit hesitant. My immediate thoughts ranged from intended applicability to total skepticism about what I would learn. However, upon completion of nine simulated rounds with my teammates I have a new appreciation for the knowledge points harvested from such a thought provoking activity. I began the simulation with the objective of buying just enough ships to remain debt…