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    called, Humanists, wants to understand the purpose of life and so, the human’s status. In this essay, it will be discussed how Worldviews can have many aspects and how interpretations of life might be different from a person to another. In fact, Bertrand Russel’s worldview will be explained, as well as my worldview and how those two might or might not be similar. As a starting point, Russel believes a lot in human’s freedom (Norman, 5). He thought that everyone should have a free will, do their

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    “On Laziness” by Christopher Morely is an essay on laziness. He claims there are benefits to laziness and that most wise, experienced people are, in fact, lazy. Morley’s purpose is to glorify lazy people and persuade people to believe that they can be successful because he lists examples of smart lazy people and he uses many examples in which laziness is helpful and the opposite is destructive to support his cause. Christopher Morely used examples of lazy successful people to make his point. “Doctor

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    What is Denunciation? Denunciation is a public statement that strongly disapproves of someone who has broken the law. It is a principle of sentencing in criminal law, that the sentence sends a clear message to the general public that the offence is serious and the punishment just. In a civil law the act of which an individual informs a public officer whose duty is to prosecute offenders, because of the crime that has been committed. • An example of a denunciation is publicly telling the devil doings

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    In “The Value of Philosophy”, Bertrand Russell— “an important social critic and one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century”—refutes the idea of philosophy being pointless and a waste of time (The Value of Philosophy). Although philosophers have not agreed on one exact definition for this branch of knowledge, philosophy is generally understood as an “academic discipline” which aims to cover a variety of topics through arguing, inquiring, assuming, and “testing arguments for weakness” in

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    whatever can be mentioned is a thing or a term i.e., an object. Thus, things, whether exist(like, the present queen of England) or not (like, the golden mountain) have being if it can be used as the logical subject of a proposition. This view of Russell is closely akin to that of Meinong’s. However, there are some points of disagreement too. Two main theses of Meinong’s theory of object ( Über Gegenstandstheorie) are — i) There are objects that do

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    When a movie is romantic the first thought that came to mind was epic and this movie delivers on that word, epic. This movie revolves around a set of characters that show romantic traits, but one character comes to mind more than all the others, Hawkeye. Remember back to the beginning of the movie he appeared though the dense fog, Hawkeye standing in the middle of the last two Mohicans to rescue Cora and Alice from there rogue guides.Hawkeye stands out as the romantic theme of the movie not just

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    Is technology really helping society for the better? Banksy is a street artist(s), who began doing graffiti in the early 1900s. The work done by the artist(s) is largely freehand but also uses stencils to apply the work. At times, the work makes political statements in a public place to cause attention. Other times the work is less serious and includes pieces depicting children or lovers. This work is produced in a public location so the public can view the art; it is created for everyone to see

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    In 1917, Siegfried Sassoon composed the sonnet “Glory of Women” during the first World War, an important piece of twentieth century modernist poetry. In this poem, the role as much as the attitude of women during the Great War is criticised. This essay argues that Sassoon's opinion on war and the participation of women conveyed in his Sonnet is influenced by his own experiences, also by referring to his biography as much as to historical research on World War One. First of all, one has to analyse

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    Chapter – 2 Devices Russell Takes Resource To : In the Principles of Mathematics, Russell upheld the thesis that the whole of mathematics is a part of logic. A formal demonstration of this goal is carried out in the three volumes of Principia Mathematica. The reduction of mathematics to logic is undertaken in two stages — ● To define the indefinables of mathematics, such as number, in terms of a few logical concepts. (conceptual reduction)

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    “The correlate in thinking of facts, data, knowledge, already acquired, is suggestions, inferences, conjectured meanings, suppositions, tentative explanations:--ideas, in short.” --John Dewey Out of the authors that I have read this year, Alfred North Whitehead and John Dewey are the two that I have found the greatest commonality with in the subject of obtaining and gaining information. Whitehead speaks on education relating back to Life. It seems to be the only way to become a person that can understand

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