Belief

Professor Sam Wineburg of Stanford University adamantly opposes the practice of schools blocking students from certain websites and databases such as Wikipedia, Twitter, and Instagram. Dr. Wineburg suggests that if students only have access to information chosen and filtered by the institution, their ability to choose what to believe, and how to think will not develop. If students do not have access to sites such as Wikipedia, once they are able to browse freely, they will be unable to tell what

In the Republic, Plato claims that Socrates believes philosophers should be king because only philosophers have complete knowledge. In order to have a just city, it is important to combine both knowledge and wisdom. Therefore, philosophers would make good kings because they are lovers of wisdom and want to know everything. However, philosophers are not lovers of seeing. For example, the term “beauty” can be used to describe many different things. A woman, a flower and a sunset can all have “beauty”

What do you know about morals and core beliefs? You probably don’t think there’s much to learn. Surprisingly, there are in fact plenty of lessons that can be learned through this topic. These lessons are often found in many different writings. The scarlet Ibis, The Interlopers, and The Gift of the Magi are three short stories that all enlighten ideas about morals and core beliefs through a variety of lessons. To start, the stories suggest that morals influenced by your surroundings do not always

particularly with the Ismaili Tarīqah. Acculturation, leading to a fusion of Ismaili beliefs and Hindu concepts to form the Ismaili belief system, is undoubtedly a prominent feature of, but certainly not exclusive to, the Ginanic approach of da‘wa (propagation of Faith). Similar traits are evident in other Ismaili traditions. For example, during the Fatimide period, there was a synthesis of Ismaili beliefs with Neoplatonic and Gnostic ideas, while during the Alamūt period there was an assimilation

Coling as sending a helpful message. Media has such a strong influence persuading people. If we were to only get our information from the government our opinions would all be very different, since there would be no one to push us toward a certain belief. Since media is controlled by large corporations there is a lack of diverse opinions, they are more focussed on advertisers than their viewers. Media's main focus is to get out information that will get attention from viewers, they ignore other issues

America. America was founded on freedom, every man and woman can believe in whatever they desire. When two concepts are on complete opposite spectrums like conformity and individualism and the culture grants the people the freedom to express their beliefs, it does not surprise me in the slightest that the split between the two occurred. The split between conformity and individualism is revealed in American literature through the differing opinions of the early American writers, along with the different

system, there is a “gift of grace” (8) which means that you are either chosen by God or not chosen, and there is no way of knowing. However, “good works” (8) is the belief that through intense worldly activity (working all the time to serve God), you may see success, and this is an indication of the “gift of grace”. Fred Phelps interpreted this, spreading the message all throughout his life that “fags” are hated by God, and his calling was to work, as a duty to god, to be “moral and worldly” (8)

The nature of human: are humans born good or evil? These two opposing views on human nature are two topics that Rousseau and Golding have both touched upon. While Golding believes that humans are born inherently evil, Rousseau believes the opposite: that humans are inherently good. Golding wrote the novel Lord of the Flies as a response of the novel, The Coral Island by R.M. Ballantyne because he believed that it was far-fetched. In this novel Ballantyne’s main characters are able to enjoy their

Throughout the course, the various readings regarding the philosophy discipline have surely affected my own belief system. Preceding the course, I had not considered many of the issued discussed. Some details, like Bentham’s theory, provided me with a completely new outlook. Others such as views of God and eternal life affirmed conclusions I had already made. Of the philosophical belief systems regarding decision making, I found my ideals to align very closely to that of Jeremy Bentham’s. I find

Plato is trying to prove that everyone is in darkness until they choose to find the light. In the book Plato’s Republic there are many examples of turning blindness into knowledge. Plato says “They say that they can pretty much put knowledge into sounds that lake it, like putting sight into blind eyes.” (Plato, trans C.D.C Reeve, Hackett,1999, p. 212) Plato is explaining that anyone can be knowledgeable with the right tools or instructor. Even someone who isn’t the smartest can still gain useful