Reincarnation
.... seemed. In the dreams Jenny saw herself in another time and place. She
saw herself as a young mother living in a small cottage somewhere in Ireland.
In one dream particularly Jenny saw herself with a terrible fever on her own
deathbed, terrified of what was to become of her children. One day Jenny
decided to find out what had become of these children. So Jenny went to Ireland
and while looking at a map of Ireland she sensed that Mary had lived in the
small town of Malahide. Then she checked local church records for any mothers
of eight named Mary that had gone there. Since from her dreams Jenny recalled
there being eight .....
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Relativism: The Tangible Theory
.... morality is, and where it came from.
Today all over the world people are communicating in ways never before
imagined. Cultural Relativism believes that one set of morals will not
adequately adapt to the individuality of all the cultures and subcultures in the
world. What this means is that there is no one moral law that fits every
situation at every time. There will always be exceptions to the rules.
Cultural Relativism leaves the creation of moral and ethical standards to the
community. The community then makes moral judgments based on its specific
culture, history, and individuality. For these reasons Cultural Relat .....
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Sigmund Freud
.... of neurotics was almost invariably associated with conflicts involving the
sexual impulse. Based on these findings he develoepd his theory on repression
and defense as well as the sexual aspect of neurotic behaviour.
Freud was unjustly blamed with "pansexualism". His theories created a
storm in meical circles and were often and heavily rejected. However, what
Freud had theoretically taught most of his life was rather a "dialectic of the
sexual impulse" than its omnipotence. After breaking with Breuer Freud carried
on his research work alone. Instead of hypnosis he applied the method of "free
association" with his pat .....
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Socrates: Psychic Harmony Is The Greatest Good
.... right by others. I do not think it is
possible to be in psychic harmony and yet act immoral. It may be possible,
however, that if one is immoral, and wishes to be moral, they could learn to be
in psychic harmony if they really wanted it.
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Socrate's First Accusers And Athenian Law
.... does injustice and is meddlesome, by investigating the things under
the earth and the heavenly things, and by making the weaker the stronger and by
teaching others these things" (Plato, 19b;c). This is the charge of the "old"
accusers. It is seen from an example in "The Clouds". Strepsiades goes to
Socrates in order to learn how to pursuade his son by "making the weaker speech
the stronger" (Aristophanes, 112). Why does Socrates remind the assembly about
the old accusers? It appears improper for a man on trial to bring about his
other 'crimes'. Aristophanes, in particular, is implicated by Socrates as an
old accuser. "For y .....
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Ernest Sosa: Externalism
.... finally, a belief has strong
meta-justification iff the subject neither believes that nor can determine if
the belief is ill-formed (hence the "meta-" prefix), and the subject is aware of
the process by which he got the belief and that the process is reliable.
OK, seems reasonable enough. But, Sosa points out, there are a couple of
scenarios (actually, three, but Sosa concentrates mainly on the two listed
below) in which these conceptions of justification just do not work. The "new
evil demon" problem takes a couple of forms in the article, but what it amounts
to is that if a person S attains beliefs through something oth .....
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The Comparisons Of Charles Manson To Transcendental Philosophy
.... lost his sixth amendment right
to self-representation, and he uses this example now to prove that the
individual rights of people are controlled and manipulated by the government.
The story of the “Manson Family” goes beyond the Tate/LaBianca murders,
to years before the murders took place. Manson and his “family” would gather
together in a house, when generally they would sit contently and listen to
Charles preach. Usually the sermon would last for an hour or two and include
stories and prophecies about the “revolution” that Manson felt was coming.
Manson called this revolution helter skelter, after a Beatles song, which he
fe .....
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The Disproof (and Proof) Of Everything
.... and theories about this, but I based mine on
what I can observe and how I perceive things as a whole. Reality, as we know it
seems to be made up of various dimensions. Most people will say reality is three
dimensional, but it's really more than that. Time is often considered a fourth
dimension, and some people say that there are at least eight known dimensions,
possibly as many as thirty. However, it will be easier to start with dimensions
from the ground up. Let us start with zero dimensions. A zero dimensional
reality is a point. It does not extend in any direction, it is one point, there
are no alternatives at all. This i .....
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Dworkin's Belief Of Preferential Treatment
.... reduce the degree to which American society is overall a
racially conscious society (294)." Preferential treatment does nothing of the
sort. It was used widely in the past and still exists in some areas today. It
has not reduced racial consciousness, but increased it by making people think
more about how many spaces are reserved for their particular race. Instead,
people should think of what their chances are of getting something on account of
their personal knowledge over someone else's, not even considering their race as
a factor. This is evident in a black's point of view of getting into the
medical school of the Univers .....
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The Existence Of God: Theories Of Thomas Aquinas, St. Anselm, And William Paley
.... book meant to be the word of God, condemns such things
as murder, adultery and theft. I find it hard to believe that an all-powerful,
all-knowing, infinitely-good being that “created” this world and everything in
it would allow any of these things to occur. He would not only condemn them in
an ancient book, but abolish them altogether along with any other things evil.
If God is supposed to be the “heavenly father” wouldn't he want and impose onto
his children his goodness and weed out all evil?
Aquinas also shows this non-existence through Objective 2 where he
writes how it is expecting too much for something that can be account .....
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The Existence Of External Forces
.... the entire world or even the simple workings of one man's brain
cannot be described completely using only the laws of nature. A complex moral
decision is created in the mind of men by more that just a random or predictable
set of electrical impulses, but by the not completely understood spiritual and
psychological make-up of men. This type is the “true” cause of an action.
When one sees this combination of causes he must accept the idea of
dualism. Dualism is the idea that there are two hemispheres of the universe,
the physical, ordered and understood by science, and the spiritual, abstract and
not understood. The spiritual .....
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The Game Of Hacky Sac Or Footbag
.... peace, love and understanding may have begun
during a 1987 American-Soviet peace walk protesting the arms race. As hack
circles developed along the road from Leningrad to Moscow, people joked that
summit meetings weren't the answer and the true secret to lasting peace among
nations lay in the game of hackysack.
The dynamics of the game reinforce the hac's image of a game of good-will.
Basically, the hac is pass through the air with any part of the body except the
hands and arms. A circle is formed as more people join in, and there is no limit
to the number of players. In fact, the more the merrier since the fun increases
with mo .....
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