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2.7 Is the nature of knowledge changing? | Teaching in a Digital Age - 0 views

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  • The issue is not so much the nature of knowledge, but how students or learners come to acquire that knowledge and learn how it can be used.
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      Daryl Bambic on 18 Dec 16
       
      Has this not always been the case?
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    "Who knows why people do what they do? The point is they do it, and we can track and measure it with unprecedented fidelity. With enough data, the numbers speak for themselves."
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Purdue OWL - 0 views

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  • A thesis is not an announcement of the subject:
  • A thesis is not a title
  • thesis is not a statement of absolute fact:
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  • our main idea/claim/refutation/problem-solution expressed in a single sentence or a combination of sentences.
  • Try to be as specific as possible (without providing too much detail)
  • Induction is the type of reasoning that moves from specific facts to a general conclusion. When you use induction in your paper, you will state your thesis (which is actually the conclusion you have come to after looking at all the facts) and then support your thesis with the facts.
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      Daryl Bambic on 20 May 15
       
      Replace 'facts' with reasoning and logic for a philosophy paper.  
  • general premises and move to a specific conclusion
  • syllogistic reasoning (the syllogism)
  • Major premise Minor premise Conclusion
  • relationship of the two premises lead, logically, to the conclusion.
  • If you disagree with either of these premises, the conclusion is invalid.
  • So the unstated premise is “Only rich people have plasma TVs.
  • may also call for action
  • The preacher's maxim is one of the most effective formulas to follow for argument papers: Tell what you're going to tell them (introduction). Tell them (body). Tell them what you told them (conclusion).
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The Internet Classics Archive | Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle - 0 views

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  • Now we call that which is in itself worthy of pursuit more final than that which is worthy of pursuit for the sake of something else, and that which is never desirable for the sake of something else more final than the things that are desirable both in themselves and for the sake of that other thing, and therefore we call final without qualification that which is always desirable in itself and never for the sake of something else.
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Aristotle and the Good Life - 0 views

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  • But it doesn’t follow that since his ideas on some things were silly, his ideas on all things were silly
  • reason a central place in human life
  • Money is clearly only a means to an end, therefore it can’t be the main good
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  • But what really determines the quality of our lives is not our circumstances themselves but what we make of them
  • Success (or honour) can’t be the main good either, since (a) it’s too dependent on other people and the whims of fortune,
  • Pleasure is certainly not the main good,
  • lives that are fit only for cattle
  • He recognises three types of relationships: the useful, the pleasant and the ones based on mutual admiration.
  • main good for a human being is reason, since it is the characteristic human capacity, the one we don’t share with other animals.
  • theoretical (concerning the contemplation of unchangeable truths)
  • ractical
  • intellectual virtues
  • virtues of character
  • Excess and deficiency
  • unction argument
  • erything in the universe had a purpose
  • essential nature of a thing or creature: just like the purpose of an acorn was to develop into an oak tree, that of human beings was to develop their unique human capacities, the most important of which was the ability to reason
  • in true Aristotelian spirit, is a mean between ‘anything goes’ and a totally prescriptiv
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The Great Conversation: Aristotle's Useful Definition of Virtue | Associate's Mind - 0 views

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  • One is a deficiency; the other is an excess.
  • enerosity is the mean between the vices of miserliness and profligacy.
  • the midpoint between cowardice and foolhardiness is courage.
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  • Friendliness
  • Righteous indignation
  • to ac
  • to be
  • purposefully chooses the right path.
  • virtuously for its own sake,
  • certainty and firmness.
  • difficult task and is a long-term life goal
  • ecomes easier with practic
  • natural pleasure that comes with and from virtue
  • To be virtuous, be in the habit of choosing the mean
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How to Write a Good Argumentative Essay: Logical Structure - YouTube - 0 views

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    Structure for writing the essay.
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How to Write an Introduction to an Argumentative Essay - YouTube - 0 views

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    Help for writing the introduction to the philosophical essay.
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