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Sartre: We Are Condemned To Be Free
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3 pages in length. From the moment man realized his separation from the rest of the animal kingdom, he has sought to shift responsibility for his actions on to other entities, both tangible and inanimate. Humanity's constant quest to shed any accountability has long been the result of what Sartre considers a tremendous excuse for avoiding a harsh reality: People are fully capable of making choices through free will despite the perpetual attempt to define their existence as being driven by determinism. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Saving Private Ryan: ethical viewpoints
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A paper which considers the film Saving Private Ryan from various ethical perspectives, including utilitarianism and Kantian deontology, with specific reference to military propaganda and the use of human beings as a "means to an end".
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SCHOPENHAUER’S ETHICS
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This paper examines the ethics of German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, focusing especially on Schopenhauer's philosophy of pessemism. The paper then examines how Schopenhauer's ethics can be applied to our times. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Science and Humanity: A Review of C.P. Snow's "The Two Cultures"
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A 4 page discussion of C.P. Snow's belief that our society is split into two separate components: an artistic component and a scientific component. Snow believed that the responsibility of healing all of the world's wounds fell to scientists. He believed that technology should be promulgated to all regions of the world regardless of the humanistic and environmental impacts of that technology. This paper presents the contrasting views of Jacob Bronowski and Frank Raymond Leavis and points to hydroelectric dams as evidence that technology is not always the most optimal solution. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Science and rationality: the Greeks
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A paper which looks at the common perception in Western civilisation that the Greeks were responsible for the origins of science and rationality, with reference to pre-Hellenistic theories and the ways in which science can be defined. Bibliography lists 10 sources
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Science Considered in Peter Kosso's "Reading the Book of Nature"
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A 5 page paper which examines whether or not science generates truth. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Science: The Only Viable Way To Knowledge?
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6 pages in length. Scientific knowledge has long been purported as the only viable means by which mankind truly knows how and if something exists; without empirical proof, a given entity's existence is merely speculative at best. To rely upon any other way of knowing - emotions, reason, language, perception - is to grasp at straws, because tangibility is the key component to whether or not is real. The problem with this stringency, however, is how the scientific community refuses to take into account the very elements of man's sense perception and communicative abilities as equally feasible ways by which to acquire knowledge instead of immediately discounting any value in humanity's innate capacity for acquiring wisdom through any other means, not the least of which includes religion. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Scientific And Philosophic Explanation Of The 1755 Lisbon Earthquake
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5 pages in length. Science and philosophy do not make the best bedfellows, however, when the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 set off a series of natural disasters, the two very distinct and often contrary entities came together as a means by which to offer explanation. Nearly leveled to the ground almost two-and-a-half centuries ago, Lisbon was thought by many theologians to be paying for a significant spiritual debt, while the scientific community took a decidedly more logical approach to explanation. Among those who spoke for the philosophical community, Kant, Voltaire and Rousseau were instrumental in engaging in esoteric rationalization; Tobias Mayer, German mathematician Johann Friedrich Jacobi, Johann Gottlob Krüger and John Michell all took the side of irrefutable objective reasoning. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Scientific Determinism: Undermines Basic Principles?
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4 pages in length. The nature of scientific determinism is such that people all follow the same path of existence no matter how they are or where they live; their lives are governed solely by the forces of universal law. As such, each individual life is predisposed to the causes that compel him to behave a certain way and make the choices he ultimately does, a finite reality that serves to surrender the fundamental components of a principled existence. Challenging the notion of free will, scientific determinism has been accused of relinquishing man from his inherent moral responsibility as well as placing any reality of the afterlife in serious question. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Scientific Method
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A 4 page paper examining different aspects of scientific methods as illustrated in the book 'Science and Its Ways of Knowing,' edited by ** and the work by Richard Pirsig, 'On Scientific Method.' Each of the works illustrates that science is a very complicated and creative world of discovery. It takes an open and artistic mind to truly understand all of the possibilities that exist within any investigation or experiment. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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