Most definitions of philosophy have been fairly controversial in part because what has been called philosophy has changed drastically in the course of history. ... Philosophy, in together with other disciplines, plays a central role in guiding us toward new desires and aspirations. It guides us to a clearer more assuring road into life. ... It guides us to make more knowledgeable and wiser choices in life. ... Ideally, the study of philosophy should nurtures our capacity for making informed choices. ...

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Most definitions of philosophy have been fairly controversial in part because what has been called philosophy has changed drastically in the course of history. ... Philosophy, in together with other disciplines, plays a central role in guiding us toward new desires and aspirations. It guides us to a clearer more assuring road into life. ... It guides us to make more knowledgeable and wiser choices in life. ... Ideally, the study of philosophy should nurtures our capacity for making informed choices. ...

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As a lover of ancient history, going to a museum is the only way to fill my experience of the artwork because art gives me a feeling of relaxing and calm. ... Along the European painting, my cousin Anna, and I saw some tour guide explaining the European history and their artwork. ... Then, the tour discusses some humorous facts about Socrates and I was so attracted to their attention and we follow them throughout the guide. ... They often focus on the life, which is quite unlike any other study. Philosopher seeks questions like human experience and the answer applies to the questions in the s...

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• Grade Level: High School

Running head: René Descartes: The Man of Meditation A Brief History and Interview of René Descartes: The Man of Meditation Danielle Ennis René Descartes René Descartes, philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. ... œHe studied there until 1612, studying classics, logic and traditional Aristotelian philosophy. ... "By 1619, under the influence of the Dutch mathematician and scientist Beeckman, Descartes began his exceptionally abundant mathematical studies of natural phenomena. ... The purpose of my studies is to find universal laws. ... I believe ...

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Ethics light up the function of ethics in the background of other kind of social relationships; it examine the nature and inner structure of ethics, studies its basis and historical growth, and offer theoretical explanation for one or another ethical system. ... There are essential morals that can be traced throughout history. ... So every act that is carried out was indomitable to be carried out based on the education and history of that human being and this world. ... Actually, in life, I think there is procedures we go all the way through where we search for a set of values that present th...

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People believed in science, philosophy, and society to bring them rational laws and standards of which to critically observe and evaluate the universe, and to guide them in their daily lives. Yet the cataclysmic destructiveness of World War One, in conjunction with continually changing ways of modern thought, seemed to not only mask all of this optimism, but also shatter it in a way that was, and still is completely unparalleled by any other time in history. ... He argued that philosophy deals only in the realm of logical thoughts, and that since thought is expressed through language, t...

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An ancient medieval philosopher by the name of Moses Maimonides stated, "the only path to knowing God is through the study of science and for that reason the bible opens with a description of creation." ...

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