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    This history or education is robust in the number of philosophical and sociocultural influences on educational theory and practice. According to the Taking Sides text for ED833, “Historically, organized education has been initiated and instated to serve many purposes – spiritual salvation, political socialization, moral uplift, societal stability, social mobility, mental discipline, vocational efficiency, and social reform, among others.” The changes that result in education stem from the ever

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    This history of education is robust in the number of philosophical and sociocultural influences on educational theory and practice. According to the Taking Sides text for ED833, “Historically, organized education has been initiated and instated to serve many purposes – spiritual salvation, political socialization, moral uplift, societal stability, social mobility, mental discipline, vocational efficiency, and social reform, among others.” The changes that take place in education are a directly

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    "Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness"-Michel De Montaigne. In this case one can comprehend that what a character does with their fixation determines the outcome in which they will get, positive or negative. "The Yellow Wallpaper" is told in the perspective of a lady narrator, who is mentally unstable. Over the summer months John and his wife, the narrator, go to a rental house in hopes that she can recover from her chronic illness. The house in which she is taken is dilapidated and

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    Alex Tran Business Ethics: Individual Assessment The environment should be protected because and only because human livelihoods depend upon it. The essay will treat the different problems that exist, nowadays, between environment and human beings, their difficulty to coexist, and mostly the ethical issues that result from it. Introduction “There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but nor

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    Socrates Café is a book written by Christopher Phillips. Phillips is a noted author and dialogue facilitator. Two of his most famous books are Socrates Café and Constitution Café. So far he has helped to create more than 500 ongoing discussion groups around the world. He is the founder of the nonprofit Democracy Café and the consulting firm The Socrates Group. Phillips was a government major at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia where he engrossed himself in studies of Thomas

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    a Renaissance man having contributed influence amongst subjects such science, mathematics, psychology, and philosophy. Descartes was the medium of the philosophers before him, Michel de Montaigne and Galileo Galilei. Descartes had sought to marginalize inquiry into skeptical epistemology and human psychology like Montaigne, except in a scientific manner. He also incorporated Galileo’s innovation of subjectivity. By doing so, Descartes had exposed the scientific irrelevance to soul by proposing that

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    Courageous Conversations About Race: Chapter 5 Authors Glenn E. Singleton and Curtis Linton in Chapter Five of Courageous Conversations About Race broach the topic of race, by asking the reader to evaluate his or her own consciousness of race. According to the authors, in order to address the achievement gaps between African American students and White students, educators should shift their energy towards focusing on the factors that they have direct control of inside the classroom rather than

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    Skepticism and the Philosophy of Language in Early Modern Thought ABSTRACT: This paper discusses the importance of skeptical arguments for the philosophy of language in early modern thought. It contrasts the rationalist conception of language and knowledge with that of philosophers who adopt some sort of skeptical position, maintaining that these philosophers end up by giving language a greater importance than rationalists. The criticism of the rationalists' appeal to natural light is examined

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    intellect.gif (9933 bytes) Renaissance Humanism Humanism is the term generally applied to the predominant social philosophy and intellectual and literary currents of the period from 1400 to 1650. The return to favor of the pagan classics stimulated the philosophy of secularism, the appreciation of worldly pleasures, and above all intensified the assertion of personal independence and individual expression. Zeal for the classics was a result as well as a cause of the growing secular view of life

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    themes that we've covered. The general theme that stood out and was portrayed in class is humanity's struggle with technology/identity through ethical practices and personal socialization. When referring back to the first unit when we read Michel de Montaigne: On Cannibals, it's easy to relate the episode of Black Mirror: White Christmas and Jurassic Park. This is because in Black Mirror: White Christmas you can see the individual theme of this episode is how humans demean the existence of other

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