This may seem obvious to some, but when teaching philosophy, I often encountered this question from students: “But why would anyone do or believe this?” In the trolley problem, why would people stand around on a train track? What evidence did Descartes have for a deceptive, male...
How did Thucydides describe Pericles? What did the Delphic Oracle say about Socrates? How did Newton use ideas of Plato? What is the philosophy of Rene Descartes? What did Thomas Aquinas teach? What did Thucydides do for ...
How did Plato and Aristotle's ideas about forms differ? What are the differences between Plato and Aristotle's views? What is justice according to Plato? What was Socrates' argument against hedonism? Is Plato's epistemology rationalist? On what point did Plato and Aristotl...
C. By zapping the brain cells of mice with light, researchers are able to create, erase, or alter their memories, good or bad. D. Many fancy ideas in science fictions or movies that are based on them actually draw greatly upon scientific achievement. Questions 18-19 (Suggested completion t...
Good ideas are truly universal. Any attempt to police ideas, to quarantine thought based on race or religion, and to pre-define what is and what isn’t a legitimate conversation, must be resisted by all. — Maajid Nawaz 79 I am a Muslim. I am born to Muslim parents. I have a ...
everydayworld we live in is just a “copy” of the real world of ideas was adopted byChristian and Islamic philosophers, and all the major religions contrast theearthly realm with another, ideal world. René Descartes, too, describedtotal reality as consisting of two separate worlds, a materia...
Francis Bacon and René Descartes are usually credited with formalizing the process in the 16th and 17th centuries. The two philosophers argued that research shouldn’t be guided by preset metaphysical ideas of how reality works. They supported the use of inductive reasoning to come up with hypothe...
Descartes and Lock certainly didn’t seem to have any inkling of it. And the results from cognitive science have only demonstrated it’s worse than we thought. Introspection gets us through day to day activities, and enables language communication. But as a guide to the architecture of the ...
What are Descartes' arguments for Cartesian dualism? What is Platonism philosophy? What are the three ideas of metaphysics, according to Descartes? What is teleological dramaturgy? What are the types of consciousness in Vedanta philosophy? How has Platonism and Aristotelianism influened Christian forms...
How did Geoffrey Chaucer view the Catholic Church? In the book Candide, how does Candide come to travel with Martin? How do we know Charles Darnay believes in Enlightenment ideas in A Tale of Two Cities? What aspects of society does Harrison Bergeron criticize the most?