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Jordyn Shell

Rationalism vs. Empiricism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) - 0 views

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    This site is credible because it is from a credible and very highly-distinguished university (Stanford University) and it was found using www.sweetsearch.com which is told to be very credible by Mrs. Bambic.
brandon maron

Karl Popper's Philosophy of Science: Rationality Without Foundations // Reviews // Notr... - 0 views

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    Source is credible because it was reviewed by Friedrich Stadler, University of Vienna and Miles MacLeod, University of Vienna
Kelsey Adams

Visual of how many animals are killed per year under cruel measures - 1 views

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    This website gives an amazing visual as to how many animals are killed per year using awful and inhumane measures.
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    Stay away from the sensational, as tempting as it seems, and build RATIONAL arguments.
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    Why do you want or even need visual? That will not help build any rational arugment.
Daryl Bambic

The Republic, by Plato - 0 views

  • He was the greatest metaphysical genius whom the world has seen; and in him, more than in any other ancient thinker, the germs of future knowledge are contained. The sciences of logic and psychology, which have supplied so many instruments of thought to after-ages, are based upon the analyses of Socrates and Plato
  • The principles of definition, the law of contradiction, the fallacy of arguing in a circle, the distinction between the essence and accidents of a thing or notion, between means and ends, between causes and conditions; also the division of the mind into the rational, concupiscent, and irascible elements, or of pleasures and desires into necessary and unnecessary—these and other great forms of thought are all of them to be found in the Republic, and were probably first invented by Plato.
  • The argument of the Republic is the search after Justice
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  • The first care of the rulers is to be education
  • conception of a higher State, in which 'no man calls anything his own
  • 'marrying nor giving in marriage,
  • 'kings are philosophers' and 'philosophers are kings;
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    The e-version of Plato's Republic. 
Daryl Bambic

For the Love of Money - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • as the McDonald’s C.E.O., Don Thompson, did in 2012, while his company then published a brochure for its work force on how to survive on their low wages
  • tax loophole that gave him a lower tax rate than his secretary.
  • walking away from my one chance to be really important.
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  • my wealth addiction
  • I am much happier. I feel as if I’m making a real contribution.
  • Wall Street is a toxic culture that encourages the grandiosity of people who are desperately trying to feel powerful.
  • rationalization of addicts.
  • the superrich are our cultural gods.
  • “enough”
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      Aristotle spoke about the 'golden mean' and how virtue is finding this mean.  Sam Polk learned about Aristotle's virtuous life in the end.
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      What do you think Aristotle would have said to Sam Polk?  Think about the 'golden mean' and living the virtuous life.
  • he felt trapped and empty, but couldn’t summon the courage to leave.
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      What thoughts and feelings do you have reading this?  Are you empathetic toward Sam Polk and those in his situation?  
Daryl Bambic

Philosophy of Love [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] - 0 views

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  • the contemplation of beauty in itself.
  • eros is that ideal beauty,
  • interchangeable across people and things, ideas, and art:
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  • Physical desire, they note, is held in common with the animal kingdom. Hence, it is of a lower order of reaction and stimulus than a rationally induced love-
  • fondness and appreciation of the other
  • friendship, but also loyalties to family and polis-one's political community, job, or discipline.
  • uggesting that the proper basis for philia is objective: those who share our dispositions, who bear no grudges, who seek what we do, who are temperate, and just, who admire us appropriately as we admire them, and so on.
  • Friendships of a lesser quality may also be based on the pleasure or utility that is derived from another's company.
  • The first condition for the highest form of Aristotelian love is that a man loves himself.
  • reflection of his pursuit of the noble and virtuous, which culminate in the pursuit of the reflective life
  • Agape refers to the paternal love
  • brotherly love for all humanity.
  • logic of mutual reciprocity
Daryl Bambic

What Psychological and Social Factors Contribute to the Development of Wisdom? - Wisdom... - 0 views

  • Given that meditation is a mental activity one could imagine that the practice of meditation relates to wisdom
  • dance experience
  • affect judgment or decision making
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  • age is not related to wisdom,
  • ncreased experience in meditation is related to increased cognitive, affective, and reflective wisdom
  • increased ballet experience is related to increased cognitive, affective, and reflective wisdom
  • self regulation and self control, which are important in maintaining such practices over long periods of time may be important for the development of wisdom
  • grit,
  • Daniel Kahneman
  • decision biases
  • istort some aspects of rational economic decision-making.
  • endowment effect,
  • hinking in a second language reduces economic biases
  • increase creativity
  • insight in problem solving.
  • antecedents of wisdom.
  • emotional distance fr
  • What needs to be true about a person in order to develop wisdom or to take advantage of experiences that can lead to the development of wisdom?
  • Wisdom seems to depend on epistemic humility.
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      Epistemic humility - a great descriptor for Socrates.  To be humble about what one knows or does not know.  Socrates famously said that he knew only that he knew little or nothing.
  • importance of humility in terms of recognizing how much there is to know and to learn about people.
  • wisdom depends in part on understanding that the values and perspectives of other people are important in solving human problems -- we all must be open to learning more.
  • other virtues may serve as guidance in the use and development of wisdom.
  • willingness to engage in intellectual struggle,
  • Wisdom may also depend on a propensity to engage in divergent thinking, creativity, and the insight that comes from a diversity of experiences, and from forming new concepts and associations among concepts.
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