Teleology

Analysis of Philosophical Traditions and Theories The word teleology is actually from the Greek word telos, which means by “purpose” or “goal” and logos, which are mean by “science” or “study”. Teleological ethics is referring to morality in the result or consequences of our behavior but not the behavior itself when we make any decisions or doing any things. From the perspective of teleological ethics, there is no right or wrong in human behavior itself but what deciding whether the actions or…

Question 2: A. Roughed Up at Recess: Pg. 74-76 In the case study, the WITI-TV received multiple phone calls regarding children being bullied and "beaten up" by classmates on school playgrounds. After the reports had arose, a reporter by the name of Bob Segall began investigating the issue by conducting surveillance at one of the troubled schools. Segall was able to capture evidence of pysical abuse between children. After capturing footage, WITI-TV aired a story that was called, " Roughed Up at…

Thomas Aquinas was a Dominican Monk during the time of the 11th century. Thomas Aquinas believe that “God was revealed through reason (natural revelation) and faith (special revelation)”(69). In one of his works “Proofs for the Existence of God”(70), Aquinas works out five ways that prove of God’s existence, going on to say “it is possible to demonstrates God’s existence, although not a priori (by pure reason), yet a posterior from some work of His more surely known to us”(70). In other terms to…

Chapter Nine – Understanding the Past, Human Origins and Role In order to understand the present, we must have an understanding of the past. However to understand the past, you have to understand how people thought and understand the environment that they lived in. Although no indication of the progenitor of human beings is accounted for like in the biblical text, there is mention of how human beings were made. In two Sumerian accounts, people are formed from breaking out from the ground, clay…

about the human being and its human nature, by comparing part of Jürgen Moltmann’s life and my life. I choose Moltmann because his Theology of Hope inspires me. God’s creation. Human nature has four major dimensions: body and soul, social being, teleology, and temporality. Human life (body and soul) is distinguished by the capacity to know truth, by using reasoning. God created Moltmann and I with the same nature (body and soul), but in a different time and space. Moltmann was born in Germany…

Homeless “hotspots” scenario During a large convention, there is often too many people using their smartphones for the cellular networks to handle. An agency came up with idea to benefit the people using Wi-Fi, as well as people who have become marginalized in society. Involving some homeless volunteers to act as mobile hotspots to better the cellphone connection at the convention, by giving the homeless people wireless 4G devices, a t-shirt, and a business card. The volunteers would also…

from unanimous. In his article Natural Right and the Problem of Aristotle's Defense of Slaver, Darrell Dobbs takes and looks to defend a thesis which is different than what is considered to be the leading opinion. According to Dobbs, “Aristotle's teleology implies that the natural slave, generally speaking, is made not born.” In the article he looks to defend this statement…

Among the central themes of The Last Superstition is that final causality – teleology, purpose, or goal-directedness – is as objective a feature of the natural world as mass or electric charge, and that the arguments to the contrary given by various early modern philosophers are worthless. One thinker I did not discuss in TLS is Spinoza, who puts forward a critique of final causes in the Appendix to Book I of the Ethics. Spinoza’s metaphysics is notoriously idiosyncratic and has had few…

The modern “West” is a society which was built upon Judeo-Christian ideas and was heavily influenced by Greco-Roman ideas. English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley has gone as far to make the statement that “We are all Greeks.” Although we are not all ethnically Greek, “Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their roots in Greek.”, as she asserted. A “civilization” is characterized by having a political structure, a legal system, shared morality, writing and intellectual life, and…

Fennel (2006) states ethics is originally derived from the Greek word ethos, which means ‘habitual mode of conduct’ and conduct will ensure that good is being done. There is a relationship could be found between moral value and practice. One value does not always appear connected with one fact. Many value often appear entangled within one situation. This could be called an ethical dilemma (Maeda, 2012).Ethical dilemma is provoked by touristic practice in relation to the perpetuation of social…