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    Heidegger and Practice

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    d Practice We live in time – it holds us and moulds us – but I never felt I understand it very well… I mean ordinary everyday time‚ which clocks and watches assure us passes regularly: tick-tock‚ click clock… time is supposed to measure history isn’t it? But‚ if we can’t understand time‚ can’t grasp its mysteries of pace and progress‚ what chance do we have with history – even our own small‚ personal‚ largely undocumented piece of it? Julian Barnes (2011: 3‚ 60) Time must be brought to light

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    Making Up People Theory

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    According to Ian Hacking Making Up people‚ based on historical analysis‚ where it refers to the simultaneous process whereby new ideas serve to create newly categorized kind of people. In order to illustrate the ways in which how people are made up‚ Ian proposed a new theory called dynamic nominalism‚ a middle ground between traditional nominalism which contends that “all categories‚ classes‚ and taxonomies are given by human minds rather than nature” (165) and traditional realism which contends

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    The Allegory of the Cave

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    fire is the sun; and the climb upward is the journey of the mind towards knowledge (Philosophy: Q&T‚ p.9). The Allegory of the Cave sdeals with one of the vital discussions in metaphysics: to distinguish between reality and appearance. Just like ontology‚ it deals with the nature of being and reality (Philosophy: Q&T‚ p.114). The prisoners symbolize the majority of people. Just like how the prisoners perceive the shadows as real‚ most people believe that everything they see‚ taste‚ hear‚ and smell

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    The Arche Theory

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    Name: Professor: Course: Date: Arche Arche is a Greek term that means the ultimate principle‚ source‚ reason‚ origin‚ cause or the beginning of something. According to the Greek philosopher; Aristotle‚ arche is a principle or an element of something which is intangible and cannot be demonstrated but it offers the factors of the likelihood of that something. It explains how everything was made out of a primal element or substance; as a cause. The arche concept developed a starting point for valid

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    Phil 4 Midterm Study Guide Introduction: - Ontology is the study of being‚ kinds of things that exists‚ the different kinds of being. What is ultimately real? - Material: spatial/public/mechanical - Immaterial: nonspatial/private/teleological - Materialism: Matter is truly real and immaterial things are not - Idealism: Ideas are ultimately real - Dualism: Reality is both material and immaterial - Monism: There’s one single reality Lau Tzu (Laozi): - Taos analogy to water: water

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    The Lsd Drug

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    The LSD “trip” is a complex interaction of many factors‚ but the crucial variables that influence the effects and duration of the “trip” are set and setting. An LSD “trip” is characterised by: • Emotional lability: from euphoria to despair and back; cascading emotions and emergence of repressed material; subsequent “flooding” of consciousness • Distortion in chronicity (time): merging of past‚ present and future • Wave-like sensations of perceptual change • Visual pseudo-hallucinations

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    nonetheless important. Ancient philosophy is grounded on Being or Logos‚ which is something objective and not according to one’s own ideas alone. Truth and justice are eventually grounded on being. Here marks the beginning of western philosophy. Ontology or metaphysics comes from the Greek term ontos which means being‚ thus it is the study of being as being Aristotle talks of four levels of beings: Man – being capable of laughter and language (henceforth rational) Animals – capable of sense consciousness

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    Philosophies of Education |Philosophy |Cosmology |Theology |Anthropology |Ontology |Epistemology |Ethics |Aesthetics | |Existentialism |Believe in the freedom to choose. |- The universe and humans exist during the same time. | -Existence precedes essence: there is no God and no fixed human nature | -Man is entirely free and wholly responsible for himself-point of awareness. | -It is we ourselves who shape our lives.  -Humans have a materialistic relation-ship with nature and society. | -How

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    Kaylee Brown Professor Jeffrey Librett COLT 470 10 November 2013 Being and Time by Martin Heidegger the concept of “Resoluteness” Martin Heidegger was a German Philosopher who examined the concept of phenomenological ontology. All of his writings‚ such as: Being and Time‚ What is Metaphysics?‚ Identity and Difference‚ and What is Called Thinking? have influenced the progression and development of ideas on existentialism and temporal being (Scott). Specifically‚ in one of his works‚ Being and

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    Spinoza Vs Descartes Essay

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    The True Essence of Substance Esha Jain Descartes and Spinoza are both regarded as rationalists‚ and for good reason. There is quite a bit of similarity in the methodology used by both modern philosophers as they try to make sense of the world and establish what is true. Both philosophers have implemented an orderly way to construct their arguments as a way to seek the perfect‚ whole truth. One essential truth that both Descartes and Spinoza strive to understand is on the matter of substance. Descartes

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