Instrumentalism

Christianity is one of the major Abrahamic religions that shaped western society in both the past and in modern times. Christian ideals mainly revolve around human interactions with God and human interaction with other humans. Unlike common eastern religious beliefs, Christianity is considered to be highly anthropocentric. However, the belief in creationism suggests human interactions with the environment. This religion teaches that God created cosmos, the earth, and nature, and has given humankind

conventional classification contains stages three and four, and the post-conventional classification, as you would expect, contains stages five and six. Stage one pertains to obedience and punishment, and stage two pertains to individualism, instrumentalism, and exchange. Stage three contains subject matter in relation to interpersonal

Hume’s Ethics Contents 1. Introduction 2. Hume’s ethics as an emotive theory of ethics 3. Conclusion 4. Bibliography David Hume is an outstanding Scottish philosopher of the 18th century whose views has a significant impact on the following generations of thinkers throughout the world. His sceptical arguments concerning induction, causation and especially religion, including his famous thesis that human knowledge arises only from sense experience and not from rational judgments, shaped the

Political Analysis Briefly, the year 1954 became a turning point that marks many changes on the political front in Vietnam. It ended the French colonial period by the 1954 Geneva Accords, opened a prior-independent era of a Communist North which was separated from a republican South and lasted through the Vietnam War up to April 30, 1975. Then the Communist Party took over the country and claimed to be a unique and “legal party responsible for all the policies and activities of the state.” With

to nature" (page 70) and "grander future" (page 70). In this poem "Song of the Redwood-Tree", the author, Whitman, employs specific devices to evaluate how valuable nature is, outside man's use, all while putting emphasis on the fact that the instrumentalism inherit in development on the notion of the promise of a "grander future" (page 70). The author simultaneously explains that Redwoods and nature represent a valuable history. Whitman also goes on to suggest that this gets appropriated into America's

consider my lesson to be instrumentalism as it is product driven at the end of the course the learners will have a skill to make them employable. The theory of knowledge is taught by developing useful skills and knowledge that the learners need to progress further and reach the vocational qualification and is assessment based with an exam in the form of a portfolio to reach the qualification. Although I can clearly see that the subject I teach covers the instrumentalism theories and therefore is

of the animal kingdom. Kennedy expanded the particular activities that fall under the domain of Rhetoric to illustrate, in part, that rhetoric, far from being a superfluous, inexact art to be discarded of by the rampant logical positivism and instrumentalism which is characteristic of our era, is in fact integral to the very existence, survival, and indeed consciousness of not humankind, but the whole of socio-sentient life. Johnstone, too, argues his point against the devaluation of rhetoric as a

Choose a simple and well-known economic model. Analyse carefully the truth or falsity of its key assumptions and discuss how the value of the model depends on their truth or falsity. Each single economic agent has to make a choice how to allocate limited resources, namely labour as an example, the one possesses to produce, in other words, the problem of «opportunity cost». By definition, «the opportunity cost of a choice is the value of the best alternative forgone, where a choice needs to be made

The problem of evil is an intellectual difficulty to cope with existence of evil and that of the God who is omnipotent and perfectly good. People using the problem of evil to criticize theism often claim that the following three premises: God is omnipotent God is perfectly good Evil exists are logically incompatible. There are counter-arguments to refute this logical problem evil. Although some of them can suggest logical possibility of theism, they would not be convincing enough. Facing tremendous

The evolution of the universe and our behaviour throughout history. I will set out to consider Laura Moriarty: Plateau (2011) and Mary Mattingly: Pull detail, (2013) in relation to “Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene,” Joanna Zylinska, (2014). I will consider our human responsibility for the world and show the changes and composition of life through human relations and ethic towards the universe. And can we re-evaluate our minimal ethics, while there’s still time for changes. This book is about