...Philo Taylor Farnsworth Was an American inventor in the early 1900’s and considered the father of television for his invention of what is known as the Electric Television. This invention was used in conjunction with Vladimir K. Zworykin’s Cathode Ray Tube which was used in many common electrical appliances up until the past 15 years in which Transistors and Crystal Displays have become the standard for use in electronics. Farnsworth was born August 19, 1906 near what is now known as Beaver, Utah by Mormon couple Lewis Edwin Farnsworth and Serena Amanda Bastian who lived in a log cabin up until a small amount of time after Philo’s Birth. In 1918 Philo and his family moved to Rigby, Idaho. Upon to his family’s relocation to Idaho he was pleased to find out that his new home was wired for electricity by what was known as a Delco generator which allowed for energy for farm equipment and lighting. He quickly self-taught himself and learned personal study in mechanical and electrical technology, he would repair the troublesome delcor generator, and upon finding a burned out electric motor among some items discarded by the previous tenants, proceeding to rewind the armature and convert his mother's hand-powered washing machine into an electric-powered one. Philo developed his early interest in electronics after his first telephone conversation with an out-of-state relative and the discovery of a large cache of technology magazines in the attic of the family’s new home, he won a $25...
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...Bria Bethea Mass Communications Chapter 11 History: • At only the age of 16, Philo Farnsworth has his first diagram of television system while he was in class, and he wrote in on the chalkboard which amazed his teacher. He work on his new device which was later called the image dissector, and he patented it in 1930. Then there was, Vladimir Zworykin who worked for RCA and by 1928 he perfected the iconoscope. • At first the picture on television sets were terrible but with the help of Philo and Vladimir, they set out to develop TV’s commercial potential. • People didn’t gravitate towards TV at first. Number one they were very expensive and there were not as nearly as many options to watch. The 1950s: Television Takes Off: • Early television...
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...Business Ethics (Supplementary Lecture Notes) Mr. Joel C. Porras “Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actios, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character. Watch your character, they beconme your destiny.” ANONYMOUS Preliminary Notions: A. Etymological: The word ethics comes from the Greek word “ethos” ,meaning : custom, a habitual way of acting character, a meaning that the Latin terms “mos” , “moris” also connote. Among the Greeks , “ethics” meant what concerns human conduct/human action. B. Descriptive: Largely a concern of cultural anthropologists and sociologists. Its task is to describe how some person, members of a culture or society address all sorts of moral issues, what customs they have, and so, how they are accustomed to behave. C. Met-ethics: Concerns itself with the meanings of moral terms: like good and bad, right and wrong, duties and rights, etc. Hence the concern is with the understanding of the use of these terms, their logical forms and the objects to which they refer. Sometimes the concern of meta-ethicist is even more fundamental: What is the possibility of moral philosophy. D. Normative: Ethics is normative, not in the way that logic is, namely. With regard to the correctness of our thinking, but with regard to the goodness of our living, the right orientation of our existence. It is a practical science, not simply because it treats human action,...
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...There are those that would agree with this statement, such as atheists like Hume who would argued that existence can’t be proved using reason as we need both observation and empirical evidence to prove God’s true existence. Others argue that faith doesn’t need logic in order to prove the existence of God, through believing in his existence he exists, alongside knowledge from revelation in the Bible. Kant argues that existence is not a predicate of God, it adds nothing to our knowledge of God, and so we cannot just assume that he exists. It is impossible to compare God to a perfect island, just because he appears to perfect does not mean we can assume he exists; applying logic to a being doesn’t bring it into existence. Others would argue that God’s existence is logically necessary. It could be argued that philosophers like Plato use logic and reason to prove God’s existence for example in the allegory of the cave. Anselm would have disagreed with this statement completely as he clearly thought that God could be proved by logic and reason alone. His ontological argument relies upon using logic as he deducted, he argues that God is, ‘than that which nothing greater can be conceived’ thereby if there is nothing greater than the most Supreme Being conceivable, the most Supreme Being must exist. Thus his entire argument is based upon the foundation of logic in order to prove God’s existence. Similarly Descartes would have also disagreed with this statement as he felt it was as...
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...Name: Zamora, Cherry Lynn A. Section: N8 PRE-FINAL PAPER RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE 1. Feeling of Absolute dependence by Schleirmacher * What I understand in Schleirmacher’s feeling of Absolute dependence is it’s our God-consciousness that arises from self-consciousness for being piety. It is our “utang na loob”, in this case it is a consciousness of the one to whom we are dependent—God. We have always this feeling of dependency that we owe our life to God. It is when we recognize the presence of God in ourselves, it also that start for us feel and practice religious experience. Like for example, whenever I achieve an accomplishment or a goal, I always make sure that I will go to church and thanked God for it. I have this feeling that I should thank Him for guiding me and helping me to achieve such success. It shows that i am self-conscious about the presence of God to me. 2. Mysterious Tremendum et Fascinans by Rudolf Otto * The Mysterious Tremendum et Fascinan by Otto is his concept of Numinous or numen or divine. It is composed of three parts, such as: Mysterious/Mysterium is the experience of wholly other, or the blank wonder. Next is the Tremendum which is the awefulness-it is the terror or unapproachability “wrath of God”, overpoweringness as the sense of one’s own nothingness in contrast to its power, the creature-feeling or the sense of dependence, and energy, the vitality and will which explain that the world is full of energy because of God. And...
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...UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO AT SCARBOROUGH SOCA01H3- INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY, L01, Thursday, 2-5, 2012 Shelly Ungar Office: MW 320 (Social Science building) e-mail: ungar@utsc.utoronto.ca Office hours: Thursday 12:30-1:30. Additional hours posted on door/website REQUIRED TEXTS: Robert Brym et al, Sociology: Your Compass for a New World. 4th Edition. Readings on Intranet as listed in course outline EVALUATION: Term exam TBA 40% Final examTBA60% Exams are held in University exam periods. Travel/holiday is not an acceptable excuse for missing an exam. READINGS AND LECTURES: Since this course aims to overview the field, we will cover almost all of Brym. This means about one chapter per week from Brym. There are additional readings on the Intranet which you are also responsible for. Readings from Brym and the Intranet are listed below. Lecture outlines are (usually) available on the Intranet web page for this course. (Lectures are frequently updated and may not correspond exactly to what is on the Intranet. This is a still a lecture course, not a Web course!) Lectures aim to do two things: summarize and highlight major points in the readings; and provide additional materials not covered in the readings. Exams require familiarity with the readings (Brym & the Intranet articles) & lectures. For your own sake, it is best to keep up with the readings! COURSE WEB PAGE: Pertinent class information, including lecture notes, will...
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...1. Explain why the task of philosophy is to search for meaning. In my opinion, Philosophy was created because many people today are searching for the meaning in their lives. We have a lot of questions like ‘Why I am here? Who am I?, ’ etc. Most of us are seeking for the correct answers on questions on our daily life. The universities or schools enables students to openly explore and learn, but still, it is not enough to fulfil or answer our questions, so that’s why philosophy was created and its main task is to search for the meaning, philosophy can answer our questions in many possible ways. 2. Why is philosophy important to human development and existence? I think that philosophy is important to human development because it can be served as a guide for us on our daily life because philosophy can fulfil our needs for information and philosophy can enhance our knowledge. I think that if philosophy not exists, cell phones, laptops, and other gadgets also not exists. So that’s why philosophy is important to human development and existence. Comparative Analysis - Relate Philosophy with the following: a. Science They are both trying to find answers about life that’s why philosophy and science are related to each other. I think that science is on fact, while philosophy is based on people's beliefs or ways of thinking. In addition, science has many theories, theories that seeks truths and answers like philosophy. b. History I think that history and philosophy...
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...Moral Issues in Business Chapter Two Normative Theories of Ethics Consequentialist Theories • Egoism - Adam Smith • Egoism is a consequentialist theory. What matters for egoists is the consequences of their actions for themselves. • • Utilitarianism - Bentham and Mill o Utilitarianism is a consequentialist theory. Right and wrong depends on the consequences of one’s actions for everyone who might be affected by them. Jeremy Bentham • Bentham was a hedonist. He believed that happiness was a matter of more pleasure and less pain. • Bentham thought you could assign pleasure points to an action according to the following categories: o Intensity: How intense is the pleasure? o Duration: How long will it last? o Certainty: How sure are you that the pleasure will occur? o Proximity: How soon will the happiness occur? o Fecundity: How much more pleasure will this lead to? o Purity: How much pain will be mixed with this pleasure? o Extent: How many people will experience the pleasure? Quality vs. Quantity o Bentham: Pushpin is as good as poetry. o Mill: It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied. o Bentham believed that all pleasures should count equally, but Mill believed that humanity would be better off if the intellectual, moral and aesthetic pleasures were more valued. Principle of Utility o The right action is the one that produces the greatest balance of pleasure over pain, or happiness over unhappiness, for everyone affected by that action. o Animals...
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...Aquinas’ Five Ways: Proofs for the Existence of God The first way: The way of MOTION It is certain, and evident to our sense, that in the world some things are in motion. Now whatever is moved is moved by another, for nothing can be moved except it is in potentiality to that towards which it is moved; whereas a thing moves inasmuch as it is in act. For motion is nothing else than the reduction of something from potentiality to actuality. But nothing can be moved from a state of potentiality to actuality, except by something in a state of actuality... it is therefore impossible that in the same respect and in the same way a thing should be both mover and moved i.e. that it should move itself (Aquinas). The second way: The way of CAUSATION The second way is from the nature of efficient cause. In the world of sensible things we find there is an order of efficient causes. There is no case known (neither is it, indeed possible) in which a thing is found to be the efficient cause of itself; for so it would be prior to itself, which is impossible. Now in efficient causes it is not possible to go on to infinity, because in all efficient causes following in order, the first is the cause of the intermediate cause, whether the intermediate cause be several, or one only. Now to take away the cause is to take away the effect. Therefore, if there be no first cause among efficient causes, there will be no ultimate, or intermediate, cause. But if in efficient causes it is possible...
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...of an American Inventor At first glance it appears as though Philo Farnsworth, at a very young age, developed a natural ability to understand complicated concepts. At 14 years of age, Philo envisioned a way to create the all electronic television. Later, at 21, he was able, with the help of his wife and her brother, to build all the components, and assemble the first television. The time in between these two events seems to point to something other than just technical ability. Philo was able to create and also recognize opportunities. To most people, this may be more important. Most people will probably not invent anything at all, let alone something that has had the impact on our lives that television has, but we can all look back on our lives, and see opportunity that we have missed, or maybe a time we did not put forth the effort we should have. Philo’s ability to seize an opportunity is something we can all learn to achieve (Encyclopedia of World Biography, Thomas Gale, Edition 1, 1998). Philo Farnsworth was born in Indian Creek, near Beaver Utah, on August 19th, 1906. There was no electricity where Philo lived. Philo’s father, Lewis Farnsworth, would often discuss the technical aspects of such devices as the telephone, gramophone, and locomotives with his son. Philo also would read technical and radio magazines. When the family moved to a farm in Idaho that had it own power plant, Philo took the opportunity to study the plant, and master the lighting system...
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...invented by Philo Taylor Farnsworth. The TV had already been invented by others, but Mr. Farnsworth was the one to use electrons to send the pictures. He is no longer alive, but is famous for many inventions. Philo Taylor Farnsworth was born in Beaver, Utah on August 19, 1906. He learned to play the violin and liked music. He went to Rigby High School and Brigham Young University. He married Elma Gardner Farnsworth on May 26, 1926 Farnsworth died on March 11, 1971 at 64 years old from pneumonia. Mr. Farnsworth is buried in Provo, Utah. Philo Taylor Farnsworth moved to a new home with his family in 1918 to Rigby, Idaho. On the way he dreamed of making inventions. In the attic of the new house he found some science magazines. He read the science magazines and learned about the TV and many other inventions. After reading the science magazines he decide he could make TV better. He applied for patents for the TV in 1927 and got them in 1930. In 1939 the TV was shown at the World’s Fair in Queens, New York. Philo Taylor Farnsworth was walking behind the plow horses when he saw the rows in the dirt and thought of the idea of electrons lining up to make pictures in lines. He told his High School Science Teacher about the invention. Telling his Teacher was good because in the future someone tried to steal his invention and his Teacher was able to say he thought of it in school. Mr. Farnsworth was happy when he saw men walking on the moon on July, 20, 1969 on TV. Philo Taylor Farnsworth...
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...Geofrey L. Jorge November 19, 2012 PH 102 – U Isa sa mga matinding problema na hinaharap ng ating bansa ay ang kahirapan. Mula pa noon hanggang ngayon, patuloy pa rin tayong naghahanap ng solusyon upang mawakasan ang kahirapan sa bansa. Kung titingnan, marami sa atin ang magsasabi na ang kahirapan ay ang kakulangan sa pangangailangang pinansyal na bunga ng kawalan ng edukasyon, trabaho o di kaya’y kakulangan at kurapsyon ng gobyerno. Subalit ano nga ba ang kahirapan? Bigyan natin ng depenisyon ang kahirapan sa pamamagitan sa pagtingin sa konsepto pagpapatupad ng tao sa kanyang sarili. Masasabi natin na naipapatupad ng tao ang kanyang sarili batay sa kanyang katwiran. Kumikilos ang tao ayon sa mga bagay na nakikita at nauunawaan niya bilang tama at nararapat. Kaya naman laging kumikilos ang tao ayon sa kanyang katwiran. Ang katwiran ay binabalangkas ng metis o kaisipan at ordo amoris o ang sistema ng pagpapahalaga. Ang metis ay tumutukoy sa praktikal at teoretikal na kaalaman o kaisipan ng tao mula sa komunidad kung saan patuloy na nagtatalaban sa likas at makataong mundo. Tinutukoy naman ng ordo amoris o sistema ng halaga ang kaayusan ng kalooban o ng puso na namamayani sa pagkutob ng tao sa halaga. At dahil dito, binabalangkas nito ang kakayahan niyang makilala ang halagang dala ng ibang mga bagay. Mula dito, kumikilos siya sa mundo at nakikitagpo sa katalagahan kung saan nababalangkas ang kanyang pag-uunawa sa mabuti at nararapat na bumabalangkas sa kanyang pagkatao...
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...Twentieth Century Philosopher Biography of Jean Paul Sartre University of Phoenix Veronica Byro, Jamie Davis, Janene Long, Michael Menendez, Jorens Pierre PHI/215 October 12, 2011 Kelley Armitage Jean Paul Sartre Jean-Paul Sartre was a French philosopher, novelist, and playwright in the 20th Century. Jean-Paul’s key concepts that compromised his beliefs were known as the best philosophy back in the 20th Century. Jean-Paul believed in individual rights which led to Political Philosophy. Sartre’s was a Marxist that set his political economic theories. Jean-Paul’s main ideas, was that every human being are subject to their own rights and deserve to be free; this enhanced his theories. However, Sartre’s work and beliefs made him best known as an Atheist; a believer of his own thoughts. Mankind is responsible for his own actions, stated by Sartre. The Existentialism Jean-Paul Sartre, took the label that people placed on him and two other philosophers Heidegger and Albert; existentialists. Sartre was the only one out of the three to take to this label, because he felt as if he would then be allowed to define it; this was a step closer to him reaching his dreams in philosophy. The main key concept that was analyzed by Sartre is that existence proceeds essence, basically meaning that all human beings are defined by their own actions. Humans outcome on life are based on the choices that we make and all humans...
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...1. Theory of Duty by Immanuel Kant is one of the examples of ethical theories. Theory of duty is commonly defined as one’s moral obligation. Duty should not be influenced by outside motivation but that duty is an obligation that one performs because they ought to and not because of any personal interest or benefit. For example, it is our duty and right to participate in political exercises such as election because we ought to. We have the duty and responsibility to select our leaders. The kind of political leader that we have reflects the kind of electorate we have. We vote during election because it is our duty and not because we are forced to or given promises and/or money. 2. Empiricism and Idealism are complicated concepts in Philosophy so this is a broad description. Idealism is the knowledge that comes from the subject. It also emphasizes the pre-eminent importance of mind, soul and spirit. Idealism is the category of philosophical systems that claim reality is dependent upon the mind rather than independent of the mind. Extreme versions of Idealism deny that any 'world' exists outside of our minds. It is a view that stresses to role the ideal or the spiritual in the interpretation of experience. Idealism is a search for Absolute Truth. It assumes that there is a design and purpose to the universe and the human mind, and by discovering this purpose they can understand everything. While Empiricism asserts that the truth comes from experience. It also states...
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...Amber Di Peppe 210178911 Julie Allen 5 April 2010 Critique: Thomas Nagel's Essay Moral Luck Moral philosophers have not acknowledged any connection between luck and morality. In fact, we as humans tend to disregard moral judgment when we are faced with instances of luck. Moral judgment does not just categorize actions as good or bad, this term is indeed applied to a person’s own character. If there are certain circumstances where the person who is being judged is not under control, then the act of judgment is also undermined or the judgment is not reliable in some way. In his essay Moral Luck, Thomas Nagel addresses the issue of why we praise and blame other people for moral reasons. If someone pushes someone out of the way of an oncoming vehicle at the last moment, they are a hero. Likewise, if someone hits someone with their car, they are a careless and evil person. But Nagel argues that there are so many more factors involved in morality and elements that effect moral luck. He defines moral luck as a situation “where a significant aspect of what someone does depends on factors beyond his control, yet we continue to treat him in that respect as an object of moral judgment” (Nagel, 466). People for so long have made judgments about people based on the actions they commit. This appears to be a good idea, because the actions say a lot about the person, presumably. However, they stop thinking about it there and disregard the factors that go into what a person does which...
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