In closing, I will attempt explain how Richard Wright's Christian perspective, found in Biology Through the Eyes of Faith, relates to the above readings, and what a Christian Philosophy of Science is. ... In his Christian philosophy of science, Hamann made clear that Christians needed to avoid positivism, which taught that scientific knowledge was the only "true" knowledge. ... A worldview, he says, help us to "determine values, held up to interpret the world around us, and in general function as a guide to life" (9). ... He recognizes that science helps us to better understand our wo...

• Word Count: 1018
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It also aims to uncover those sources of wisdom and knowledge within the Western history of philosophy and theology, which might be helpful in developing new perspectives for an appropriate response to this crisis. ... A second and decisive development, by which nature is secularised, neutralised, is found at the beginning of the hegemony of the conceptual-nominalistic tradition in Western philosophy and theology. ... Although Ockham's doctrine is a prelude to the typically modern adage of the 'verum et factum convertuntur', the birthplace of modern science is Nicholas Cusan...

• Word Count: 4223
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

After his father passed away, Socrates inherited a large sum of money and used his inheritance to further his interest in philosophy. ... There are no lectures and class discussions in which the teacher seems to be superior but instead a helper. ... His philosophies and other teachings in the philosophical field of study have paved the way for a world that questions and reasons, rather than simply accepting....

• Word Count: 604
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Pico's great love and respect toward the human race and its ability to reason, truly exemplifies the philosophy behind the Renaissance. ... His work marks an era, and helps lead in a decisive progressive movement in the ideas of a culture. ...

• Word Count: 355
• Approx Pages: 1

Aristotle's theories and works included different fields, from logic, philosophy, and ethics to physics, biology, psychology, politics, and rhetoric. ... He created a system of catagorys which systematicly helped him trying to attain his goal. ... His works are still studied by all philosophy students at every university in the country. ...

• Word Count: 677
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Plato and Hobbes have similar philosophies for which one could compare regarding their theories in "The Republic," and "The Leviathan.... Plato explains in "The Republic" that the guardian is to be a really good and noble guardian of the state who will unite in himself philosophy, spirit, swiftness and strength (Plato, pg. 9). ... What Hobbes is saying is, human beings are put on this earth to look out for themselves; and if scarcity were to occur, they would look the other way if someone else needed help. ...

• Word Count: 1234
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Modern science is the practice of skepticism. Skepticism is defined as acritical attitude which systematically questions the notion that absolute knowledge and certainty are possible...in particular fields? (Skeptic's Dictionary), meaning that modern science is the understanding that current scientificknowledge? is never infallible and that methods and truths must constantly evolve. Someone who experiments and constantly questions norms is a modern scientist. ...

• Word Count: 4135
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

Throughout history, scientists have recorded their findings and have used them to influence and help future generations of scientists in their research. ... Through data collection, experiments/observations, and unbiased writing; science writing helps create a reference for future scientist to use in their experiments in order to help society gain a greater knowledge and understanding of science. ... "All their numerous concepts of electricity had something in common-they were partially derived from one or another version of the mechanico-corpuscular philosophy that guided all scientific ...

• Word Count: 1060
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It is a tool that can help us find entries into branches of science and thought that were once inconceivable (59). ... However these men did not have the power to understand or prove their philosophies. ...

• Word Count: 854
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The ideas from the Scientific Revolution challenged traditional authority with the help from Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton. ... In 1687, Newton published his findings in the most respected scientific work of all time, Principles of Natural Philosophy or Principia Mathematica. ...

• Word Count: 924
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

." - Ralph Waldo Emerson A Condensation of Its Context Toward the end of his notebook, "Naturalist," Ralph Waldo Emerson entered sentence (dated 1853) that marks a symbolic vision of nature familiar to his readers and, in more recent years, of concern to his ecologically minded critics: "He is the richest who has most use for nature as raw material of tropes and symbols with which to describe his life." (2) One can see why the tradition of reading Emerson's nature writing and environmental aesthetics in sharp contrast with Henry David Thoreau's--Thoreau viewed as "Emerson's ea...

• Word Count: 9971
• Approx Pages: 40
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Bacon proposes, in the form of an exposition, various things that are supposed to help us within our careers, as he keeps on using examples and comparisons on how different types of men would act before different problems, always related to studies. Although the text deals with studies all the time, three parts may be differenced, though: in the first part of his essay -from line 1 to 15, approximately-, he talks about studies (how they can be used; what for; what will happen if you do not respect the limits for delight, ornament or ability; how crafty, simple and witty men would use their stu...

• Word Count: 1111
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

" (Pg. 33) A philosophy of history embedded in human development and the human mind began to manifest in this century through the works of Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot and Condorcet. ... The third precondition, according to Mazlish, that helped serve in the emergence of the Modern Human Sciences in the West was the Darwinian Revolution. ... His focus on observation and theoretical presumptions helped scientifically connect how, like the environment, the human species naturally came into existence. ...

• Word Count: 1481
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The subjective experiences of religion help to get intensive knowledge as was in case of Sri Ramakrishna and Sri Ramana. ... Swami Jitatmananda points out that nearly a century ago Swami Vivekananda predicted that "the conclusions of modern Science are the very conclusions of the holistic philosophy of Vedanta known as advaita formulated in India nearly three thousand years ago. ...

• Word Count: 1813
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The devising of steam engine was the greatest contribution for the human society as a result it led to the first industrial revolution, which helped people to break away from handicraft. ... Science used to be contained in one discipline namely natural philosophy. ...

• Word Count: 1756
• Approx Pages: 7

The overall philosophy of the Research Division was that it should not try to duplicate in any way the work of the development labs of IBM which were collectively ten times the size of the Research division. ...

• Word Count: 2883
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: Undergraduate