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The Basic ideas in Philosophy of mind (By: Dabo Euclid Ammel)

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Introduction. The subject matter of philosophy of mind is the mind-body problem other issues are addressed, such as the hard problem of consciousness, and the nature of particular mental states.: the problem of reconciling man’s understandings of the causal structure of the physically described world, including our bodies and brains, with the apparent capacity of our conscious thoughts and efforts to cause our bodies to move in consciously intended ways. Due to a faulty understanding and application of a relevant part of contemporary science, philosophers of mind have encountered many difficulties in analyzing man, and this many call the quantum mechanics. Philosophy of mind is a vast field, so to make my task manageable I shall limit my remarks to the opinions and arguments presented in two recent books, John Searle’s Freedom and Neurobiology: Reflections on Free Will, Language, and Political Power, and Physicalism, or Something near Enough. This naturally created causal link e...

SAME SEX MARRIAGE

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BY:  COMR. DABO EUCLID AMMEL Introduction It is important to distinguiged between a person that is a homosexual and a gay base on the distinctions been provided by some professionals. A Homosexual is anyone who enjoys sexual attraction to persons of thesame sex. “only few NIGERIA CHALLENGED ON TECHNOLOGICAL ENHANCEMENT are gays as claimed by this psychologist because, A man who recognizes that he has a homosexual problem and struggles to overcome is simply a homosexual and not gay”. Gay or lesbianism is a self identity chosen by some homosexuals. “the gay-identified person, identifies with the idear that homosexuality is as normal as heterosexuality”.  Gays/lesbians are therefore homosexuals who morally approve same sex sexuality or sexual activity and regard such acts as normal and desirable. There is both legal and cultural rejection of homosexuality. This many had associated with the acts of nurturing it and the meaning of nature in human life. Gay science an...

THE PROJECT METHOD OF TEACHING (BY: DABO EUCLID AMMEL)

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    The project method is a medium of instruction which was introduced during the 18th century into the schools of architecture and engineering in Europe when graduating students had to apply the skills and knowledge they had learned in the course of their studies to problems they had to solve as practicing of their trade, for example, designing a monument, building a steam engine etc. This method was been derived from John Deweys ideas on education which emphasizes that education should not just be an attempts of preparing the child for a future that is unknown, but rather, it should be able to fit the child into the society that he or she is living in. In the early 20th Century, William Heard Kilpatrick expanded the project method into a philosophy of education. His device is child-centered and based in progressive education. Both approaches are used by teachers worldwide to this day. Unlike traditional education, proponents of the project method attempt to allow th...

Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach on Religion (1804-1872)

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 By: DaboEuclid Feuerbach, leader of the left wing Hegelians was profoundly influenced by Hegel’s challenge to the Christian God. He had driven much pleasure in Hegel’s doctrine of the religious alienation of man in the master-slave relationship with the Christian God, but he debunked Hegel’s solution to such a problem. To Feuerbach, the God of the Christian do not need to be reformed, but in the other way, man need to be reformed. Man need not to be rescued from these Christian God, but he needs to be rescued from his own illusions about God. Religion does not make man, but man makes religion, it dogmas and principles are all man’s subjective thought. Man is a God on earth, any thought about a divine being called God, according to Feuerbach is a sheer sophistry and illusion. Feuerbach drew a logical conclusion of Hegel’s work in his book “The Essence of Christianity” published in 1845, in this book; He claimed that he had discovered the true the true nature of Religion. “All m...

The Effect Of Marriage Bond. (By: Dabo Euclid Ammel)

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INTRODUCTION The effects of marriage are the bond that arises from the valid exchange of promises and the equal rights and duties that flow from the spouses’ new status, especially concerning the education of children. The canons describes the effects of the bond of marriage in the lives of the spouse (c. 1134), the equality of the spouses (c. 1135), and the obligations and rights of the parents. MERELY ECCLESIASTICAL EFFECTS OF MARRAIGE THE MARRIAGE BOND Canon 1134 speaks of the bond that arises from a valid marriage. By this bond, the partners become husband and wife in the relationship that is marriage. The bond is such that in each partner a set of new obligations arises. The spouses, by committing themselves mutually to each other, give a new orientation to their own life. This bond is “by its nature…..perpetual exclusive,” which recalls the properties of marriage described in canon 1056. The properties in both natural and sacramental marriages are unity and indissolubility...

Soren Kierkegaard Biography and Philosophies.

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Biography Soren Kierkegaard was born on 5th may, 1813, in Copenhagen, a small provincial town, the seat of Government and, at the time the intellectual centre of Scandinavia, with its University and its learned Academies – a closely-knit society which provided Kierkegaard with a clinical specimen of the social and political intellectual and religious currents of the day, which he could consult like a barometer. He spent his life in a brilliant literary career, producing an extraordinary number of books before his death in 1855 at the age of 42. Kierkegaard was trained in Hegel’s philosophy but was not favourably impressed by it and He agreed with the attack on German greatest speculative thinker. His is known with his popular dictum “truth is subjectivity and subjectivity is truth.” SOREN KIERKEGAARD’S PHILOSPHY KIERKEGAARD’S METAPHYSICS                      ...

ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER IDEAS

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COMPILED BY: DABO EUCLID AMMEL Arthur Schopenhauer was born in Danzig in 1788. He was a contemporary of Hegel who refused to acknowledge that Hegel was an adequate successor of Kant (Stumpf and Fieser309). Schopenhauer launched a heavy criticism on Hegel such that he asserted no philosophy during the time Hegel. Full of pride, Schopenhauer regarded the philosophy that existed between Kant and himself as “mere University charlatanism.” Although Schopenhauer gave no premium to the philosophical works of Hegel, his “principle of sufficient reason” relatively connects with Hegel’s dialectic method. The “principle of sufficient reason” sets out to provide answers to the questions “what can I know? And what is the nature of things?” (312).  These which predates the pre-Socratic era intends to present a thorough account of the whole scope of reality. Relatively to Hegel’s teleological principle, Schopenhauer “principle of sufficient reason” states that nothing is without a reason. THE...