YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :John Ortbergs Philosophy
Essays 361 - 390
While Hume appears down to Earth and logical, he is, in a very general sense, a skeptic. He notes that there is a battle between r...
strive for bigger and better opportunities, to reach beyond what has become comfortable and consistent in order to attain that whi...
on actions, then the argument would end there. Utilitarianism, therefore, is their effect on society and the world at large. Actio...
philosophy" was intent on raising philosophical debate above the aesthetic and theological interests which had held it captive for...
He sought not to try to make people feel any better about themselves or the world in which they lived aside from empowering them t...
lying promise is something that is said in order to achieve a favorable outcome. What if someone has a gun to the victims childs h...
when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." And, for 20th century Catholic theologian Josef Pieper (1904-97), Gods role in...
of the same) is "reason" rather than the self-conscious "I." One may then extend the concept from ethical ideas to morality, whic...
Camus relates the substance of the Greek myth and how Sisyphus was condemned to endlessly roll a rock up a hill in the underworld,...
by Eastern religions. A "Master" discerns the attainment of religious enlightenment in his novices according to how a novice beh...
therapeutic manner (Tourville and Ingalls, 2003). This relationship may refer to a single individual, or the "person" may be a sma...
upon an instructor who cannot handle the task. However, those who are called in to substitute for the AWOL educators provide an e...
Even in the absence of hard and fast codes of ethics such as those that exist for some professions, there are certain basic guidel...
ability has improved considerably, inasmuch as the decisions I now make are more analytical and based upon a broader and more dive...
universal laws? Clearly, they can sometimes, but other times they would not be thought of in such a manner. John Stuart Mill on th...
when it is expressed as a love of virtue, and justice when it is considered as one of many virtues. For Hobbes, self-interest "ta...
tangled when one relies on the system to teach. In fact, when examining contemporary life, one can see that a large compliant abou...
1999, p. 104+) - believed children are not merely a collection of empty vessels waiting for information to fill the void, but rath...
what is not. Descartes method of systematic doubt is to "reject as if absolutely false anything as to which I could imagine t...
persuasive arguments, Aristotle mentions three techniques: pathos, ethos and logos (What is logos?) "Pathos" (from which we get th...
lesson is severely hampered. The role that critical thinking plays within the early childhood teaching community is one tha...
no date). The senses are most attuned when the metaphysical component of time is involved, with a brief moment remembered f...
institution of marriage, and the influence that family structures, including relationship triangles, have on individuals. Because...
the standards movement. This "default" philosophy emerges from a behaviorist, positivists background that places great emphasis...
would be no hope of redemption or change. Frankl supports this position by contending that mans search for meaning "is the primar...
used to understand present and future situations. Interestingly, the author points out that when taking the models of socialism an...
in Modern Thought points to two cataclysmic moments in history that were responsible for altering the contemporary perceptions of ...
system in ancient Greece wherein a woman had a protector (kyrios) or one who watched over them. This was either a brother or their...
(Kemerling, 2002). Lacking professional teacher training, Socrates elected to do some "free-wheeling" by partaking of spirited di...
human understanding. He saw the concept as being equated with something that exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transce...