All beings entrusted with reason experience within themselves an immutable force, an impulse, that draws them to acquiring knowledge; and in the conscious mind, this impulse manifests itself in the form of concrete questions concerning our purpose and existence[2]. Over the centuries Philosophy and Religion in particular, has attempted to provide answers. Since ancient Greece, philosophers and scientists alike have discussed the origin of thoughts, movements, cognition, emotions and...

At the centre of The Burial at Thebes is the contest between the belief that the gods should form the basis of moral behaviour in the state, presented by Antigone and Creon's case that the king can define what is correct behaviour. I shall go through the text and pick out passages that are relevant to the cases presented. My conclusion will be based on which case has the most support throughout the text, remains the most consistent and also the desire of the protagonists to see their views...

Sensation comes from the word 'sense' which is the use of the 5 sense that are (touch, smell, vision, hearing, and tasting), each one has its own function that helps in the process of sensation. These senses are processed by the sensory receptors. The sensory receptors are highly specialized cells that transform a stimulus of either touching or smelling to electric signals which in turn go to our brain. The brain then interprets these signals and that's how we sense/feel a stimulus. For our...

I'd like to begin my essay from one quotation that helped me to understand the main direction of this work discussion. This quotation explains the main content of the notion imaginary places and their meaning for people. Let's look at it attentively and analyze how the World Trade Center site in New York City is now an "imaginary place." Leonard & Mcclure stated that "Such sites are, of course, actual places. We can go there today, stand, look, and know we are in the place....

Ethnomethodology is the study of the ways in which ordinary people construct a stable social world through everyday utterances and actions - is now a major component of all sociology and linguistics courses. The tag was invented by Harold Garfinkel, the American sociologist, who put down the basics of ethnomethodology as a hypothesis, and as an awkward assessment of all conservative sociology. Elucidating on the genesis of the term, he proposes that '"ethno" appeared to refer, in one...

Alzheimer's disease There are so many deseases in the world that it is simply impossible to protect oneself from all of them. Very often, people get sick and they are not even aware because the symptoms are sometimes "not noticeable" so they attributed them to fatigue and stress. Frequent mood swings, forgetfulness, and confusion are the characteristics that come with aging, but are they carrying more than age? If someone has these symptoms there is a possibility that...

The debate on Creationism status as a Science has drawn the attention of the American Supreme Court, as well as many notable practitioners of science and philosophers' of Science. The main premise of the Creationists argument is that measured against Sciences demarcation criteria in their opinion Creationism qualify as scientifically falsifiable - if not they assert that the demarcation criteria is its self fallible. The focus of this essay will be to analysis the Science's demarcation...

In the history, scientific revolution was the starting point of a new period. It was a really brainstorming time for people by the help of the Renaissance people got closer one more step more to having free mind. Even after scientific revolution era, people get affected from the key participants of it and their methods like Thomas Kuhn. In the time of scientific revolution, people thoughts` is changed toward what people thought to what people observed. Before that there was an acceptance...

"What is truth?" - a commendable question asked by Pilate but to answer it would be almost impossible. The term "truth-value" can be used to assign truth or falsehood to a certain proposition. Clearly the value can be either true or false, but the question at hand here is what makes us certain that what is true will always hold true and what is false will most certainly always be false as well? Can we say with assertion that there is an absolute distinction between the two?...

Law enforcement is often times in the media spotlight for both positive and negative reasons. Although media portrays both the good and bad sides of what happens all of the time, they often portray more of the negative than the positive. Media reports when the police are under fire for loosing evidence for a case or when a suspect is hurt while in custody, yet they fail to talk about why the evidence could have been misplacesd or why a suspect was hurt while in custody. Since the beginning of...