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Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
... evil side. In the end it is Raskolnikov's suffering that is to lead him to redemption, and it is Sonia who helps him attain this redemption. Raskolnikov's theory of the "superman" is a very interesting philosophy of crime, particularly pertaining to the ordinary man versus the extraordinary man. In ...
Rational versus Non-Rational: A Look at Kepler
... of a mathematical worldview he would have to have a rational and critical mind. He used mathematics, and in particular, geometry, to search for and understand the structure of the universe. In Kepler?s time, the idea that the planets orbited in circles or combinations of circles ...
Why Do You Believe God Exist?
... beliefs at face value, the person has found something validate the existence of God, or the person believes in God based on that person's specific experiences in the world. I believe in God because of the personal experiences and thoughts that have occurred in my life. These experiences and ...
Objectivity is Possible
... in the world. If this is possible, then others can also conceive of those events and one can conceive of the experiences of others, also from outside. Any experience can be thought about and known to have occurred not only from the point of view of its subject but from other points of ...
Personal Statement
... of Science (Mathematics A, Mathematics B and Statistics) from Islamia College, University of Peshawar, Pakistan, in 1999. It?s a top class and ...
Max Weber
... Beliefs are like morals that people try to live their lives by and without morals we would not know how to act. You have to have some sort of boundaries to live your life by. In the bible it says " You will know them by their fruits", and ...
Rene Descartes
... the idea of his statement, "I think therefore I am." He also made the first systematic account of mind and body relationship, and soul's contact with the body. In the fields of mathematics and astronomy, he was one of the founders of coordinate geometry and a change in ...
The Value of Philosophical Thinking
... of truth just as it searches for today and hopefully continues to do so in the future. Philosophy is of interest because it value is so immeasurable and yet so easily overlooked and ignored by people, which almost proves to me personally its importance. The underlying notions of ...
A teleological argument for the existence of a supernatural designer of the universe
... and the Darwinian theory of natural selection . 3. Criticism of the teleological argument3.1 Immanuel Kant Order in the universe, is the foundation of the teleological argument. Since, according to the argument, order in the universe is imposed by the intelligent mind (God ...
What is existentialism?
... and purpose for their existence. - Basically that you are the master of your own universe and the only force in the universe controlling your ultimate destiny is you. These seem to be the fundamental principles that apply to both of them. Here are a few of the ...