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The Disagreement About Thinking
Cognition
Ethics
Philosophy
As humans, one of the most basic and deeply emotional feelings we share is a discomfort known as thinking-related disagreement. Thinking-related disagreement is when a person at the same time holds two or more competing or disagreeing beliefs or attitudes. Disagreement is the mental pain that is caused when these attitudes or actions conflict. In…
Who Am I? a Reflection Paper in Philosophy of Man
Philosophy
Who Am I
Many people would ask this question to themselves. They would try to internalize the question and begin to answer based from the things that would grasp into their mind. Some would start from simple things until they would come to the point thinking of complex things and everything becomes dubitable as Rene Descartes says in…
Post Positivism: Knowledge From Different Perspectives
Philosophy
Pragmatism
Post-positivism is a philosophical position that aims to address certain assumptions made by positivism. According to this perspective, human knowledge is not grounded in indisputable principles, but rather emerges from a combination of various human speculations (Groff, 2004). Post-positivism holds that knowledge is conjectural and open to further inquiry. By constantly examining and improving existing…
Stoicism in the 21st Century: Why Ancient Philosophy Is Popular Again
Interpretation
Philosophy
In the age of smartphones, social media, and constant connectivity, it may seem strange that a philosophy developed more than two thousand years ago in Ancient Greece has become increasingly relevant. Yet Stoicism, a school of thought founded by Zeno of Citium in the early 3rd century BCE, has found a renewed audience in the…
My Parents – The People I Admire The Most
Ethics
Philosophy
My parents have been married for 25 years and have grown together and individually to strengthen their relationship to eventually set up a religion based home and to raise their three children with strong and good morals. Before all of that they have to know every aspect of each other so they can be a…
The Richer, the Poorer Summary
Philosophy
Pleasure
“The Richer, the Poorer”, written by Dorothy West is the story of two women, and the way they viewed money and how it affected their life. Lottie was the wise sister who had always been conscious of the money troubles her family suffered and this made her determined to have enough money to be able…
Personal Philosophy of Clinical Teaching
Philosophy
Teaching
Introduction A philosophy is usually used as a guiding principle or statement which motivates an individual or an institution towards the realization of goals. Teaching is one of the practices which need the adoption of a philosophy. In clinical teaching, a personal philosophy can be necessary as it helps in the delivery of the best…
My Personal Philosophy in Counseling
Philosophy
It is hard to think of counseling philosophy for it is very broad in different manner. Based from the nine units I have taken for being a student taking up Master of Education in Guidance and Counseling, many has to be learned and to be understood. This giving of help to someone should be taken…
Richard Quinney’s Theories
Philosophy
Science
Richard Quinney is a renowned critical philosopher who has profoundly contributed in the field of criminal justice research. Widely regarded as the founder of critical criminology movement (Thomas, 2009), much of his works examine the relationship of crime and capitalism, through which he developed theories of crime that remain influential to date. Quinney follows a…
A Comparison of the Two Kinds of Individuals in Neat People vs Sloppy People by Suzanne Britts
Ethics
Philosophy
Psychology
In Suzanne Britts essay Neat People vs. Sloppy People. she carefully and humorously compares the two kinds, I personally enjoyed her interpretations very much. in her opinion, the variation was not merely the differences in preferences in cleanliness, but in morality, She states, Neat people are laZier and meaner than sloppy people. This is a…