...their place in God’s plan), systematization of Christian doctrine ( the practice of presenting Christian doctrine as an ordered or coherent whole), defending the faith and as a bridge for nonbelievers (this “apologetic theology” strives to help us refute the argument of those atheists who state that it’s not reasonable to believe in God), a critique of the life and proclamation of the church (an evaluation of the church and its teachings - often a cross check to evaluate if our sermons, lesson and writings are true to the gospel), and also contemplation (seeking a deeper understanding and intellectual appreciation). Theology and philosophy frequently are at times confused by those not actively engaged in either of the two disciplines. The reason for that is that they do share some common ground. They both appear to study the meaning of life, ethical values and the meaning of reality. They are both disciplines that can seem to be abstract. Even though they may seem to have many similarities, the two disciplines must be studied separately. We cannot allow philosophy to influence our discipline of theology because philosophy is...
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...Amor Vincit Omnia means ‘’Love conquers all’’. It is a philosophy of life that entails that every human being one day will be conquered by the term love. An important message of the philosophy is that, no matter what happens, love will overcome all obstacles. Carl grew up around his father, who represented the idea, which is that life is transparent and predictable and therefore Carl adapted his father’s perception of life. However, in the short story ‘’the order of things’’ by Judy Troy from 2007, the main character Carl gets to experience the philosophy ‘’love conquers all’’ first hand and his life is changed for good. The narrative is focusing on Carl and his relationship with Lily. Carl has throughout his entire life lived by his father’s idea of life: ‘’Never take chances […] always be prepared of what’s next’’ (p 2. Ll. 54 – 55). Carl is a regular person with a decent job as reverend at the local church; he is decently married and has a daughter. Carl is a pastor which means that he has dedicated his live to preaching the word of god. Carl starts having an affair with a woman named Lily. This is a little ironic because as a pastor you should be able to live by the word of god. Yet, he is breaking one of the Ten Commandments which is ‘’you shall not commit adultery ’’. However, the reason they got together in the first place, was because they reminded so much of each other ‘’they were each in their early forties, married to teachers; they had recently lost a sibling to...
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...The pursuit of happiness and the cultural divide Debra Poole PSY/220 May 25, 2014 Michelle Culmer The pursuit of happiness and the cultural divide We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness (Declaration of Independence, 1776). We have believed in this motto or creed since before these words were put down on paper and to this day we still hold the pursuit of happiness as one of our most basic and fundamental rights. Through our history we have defended our right to live our lives according to what we believe makes us happy and free. Driven by a need to live our lives according to our own plan without dictates from others in a dizzying pursuit of happiness whatever that may be for each individual. Happiness is not something that can be generalized because what makes you happy may not make your neighbor happy, so let’s take a look at the differences that exist in the pursuit of happiness. The United States has been categorized as an individualistic society where the needs and wants of the individual are as important, if not more, than the society as a whole. This can be demonstrated by the countless competitions we as a society hold where there is only one winner, not a team. We believe as a society that hard work will be rewarded with happiness in the form of success whether in business, sports, entertainment...
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...Ayn Rand was born Alissa Zinovievna Rosenbaum in St. Petersburg, Russia on February 2nd, 1905. She produced many works of fiction within her life and is applauded for the cultivation of her philosophical system-Objectivism. Ms. Rand passed away in 1982; her writing and ideals continue to influence society, literature, and surprisingly, the video game industry. After reading Her Second Career and Good Copy, it is easy to see why this author is held in such high esteem. Despite the tone of the stories being very different, the concept of wealth, the behavior of the main characters, and the traits of Ayn Rand's philosophy are all shared. While Her Second Career takes place in the glitzy scenes of Hollywood and Good Copy in the small-town of Dicksville, Ayn Rand does a fantastic job of conveying the influence of wealth no matter the setting. The characters in both stories run the gambit on the socioeconomic scale of the haves and the have-nots. Claire Nash lives a lofty life with "a palace in Beverly Hills and two Rolls Royces" pg. 112 while Laury McGee resides in an old apartment building. It is not until Ms. Nash undertakes Winston Ayer's challenge that she is forced to understand the struggles of aspiring actresses and the financial hardships endured in pursuit of their dreams. In Good Copy, it is not until Mr. McGee has kidnapped Ms. Winford that he receives his crash course in economics. It is obvious to the reader that Laury is aware of Ms. Winford's value based on...
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...according to APA standards. Hinduism Hinduism Sanatana Dharma makes up the Hindu religion, which is also known as Hinduism. “The spiritual expressions of Sanatana Dharma range from extreme asceticism to the extreme sensuality, from the heights of personal devotion to a deity to the heights of abstract philosophy and the oneness behind the worship of a multiple of deities.” (Fisher, 2005, pg 69). Hindu’s do not view Hinduism as a religion but as a way of life. A person is a Hindu either by birth or chooses this form of worship. Hinduism is made up of beliefs that have changed through the centuries and the new additions to the belief system can be one of many reasons for its lacking a uniting belief system. According to Fisher (2005), there are “extreme variations within the Hinduism system of Santana Dharma which has been shown throughout time. Some scholars argue that there are no central traditions that can be called Hinduism proper” (pg 69). Forms of worship can be diverse depending on the village visited in India or in any other country. While American’s see life according to historical events. Hindus see life according to what they will become and history as unimportant. Reincarnation Reincarnation it the teaching “that the soul leaves the dead body and enters a new one. At death one takes birth again and again into countless bodies including animals or any other...
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...Personal Philosophy of Nursing Jessica Pons NUR/391 January 28, 2013 Sharon Thompson Personal Philosophy of Nursing To formulate my personal philosophy of nursing, I had to look at what my core values were. I am a kind, compassionate, honest, and caring. I chose nursing as my profession because nursing is something that always has been in my blood. I believe human life is precious and is to be valued. Not only do I consider my patient’s wellbeing, but I also look at the wellbeing of the families. Families take care of the patient when they are discharged. I also look at my fellow health care workers. Without being able to work alongside them, I could not take care of the patient properly. Lastly, I consider my own health. An unhealthy nurse cannot properly do their job. Caring for patients and their families, working well with coworkers, and taking care of your own health is what makes a difference because no matter how small the task, little things add up to big things. That is why I believe the world will get better one small step at a time. My Patients My patients are human beings. They are people with feelings and souls, and they are to be treated with just as much respect as everyone does. It does not matter if they are on their deathbed or just coming in because they have a cough. Being a positive role model is an important philosophy. I was raised watching my mother be a nurse and always enjoyed going to work with her and helping with small things such as...
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...professional settings. The worldview and nursing philosophies in nursing practice are influenced by an individual’s upbringing, spiritual and cultural practices, life experiences, and other factors that are unique to each of us (Ohio Nurses Association, 2013). Ethical dilemmas arise when our personal values conflict with the duties of our practice (Purtilo & Doherty, 2012). In various settings, nurses frequently encounter ethical dilemmas. One must have a moral compass to guide us in our professional practice. There are some factors that contribute to who we are as individuals. From our upbringings, memories, personal experiences, knowledge and reasoning of people and situations shape who we are, making our personal ethical philosophy. Through her desire to be a good and caring person, this student started reading and learning from the Bible and believe in God. This student started to develop her moral compass. Principles and values such as family, the golden rule, hard work, self-discipline, honesty, compassion, fairness, integrity, respect, benevolence, loyalty, accountability, and service to others, to name some, have been instilled in this student from a young age and this student utilizes these principles and values when interacting with others. This student is thankful for her parents for emphasizing these attributes to help her be a productive and successful human being. These principles and values serve as her moral compass in life and translates into her nursing practice. ...
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...Moral Theory and Culture Culture is a way of life; it guides beliefs, values, and attitudes. It identifies who one is. It defines the nature of relationships, and individual practices. The decision and actions one take is based upon culture. It is culture that is the building block of one’s moral beliefs. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the “Classical Theories of Morality” and the relevance of these theories to cultural identity. Aristotle’s theory suggests that every action is aimed at some good and good is the object of these actions. Aristotle defines the good as happiness (Kucukuysal and Beyhan, 2011). Happiness and good are synonymous across cultures with living well. However, culture defines the meaning of happiness at different points in ones life. Ones perception of happiness can be quite different from another’s (Scalet and Arthur, 2014). For example, one may define happiness through wealth and success and another may define happiness, not on the material things they own but the family they have and the choices they have made through life. Aristotle also suggests happiness conforms to goodness of virtue (Kucukuysal and Beyhan, 2011). To be happy and good, one must make the right choices. Virtue is taught and learned. The ability to define happiness and decide what is virtuous is an individual choice based upon life teachings and experience. In order to make someone else happy, you must be happy with yourself. Life’s choices, treatment of others should be made...
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...The Deming Approach W. Edward Deming's philosophy is one that focuses on continuous improvement at all levels of an organization for all products and services. The philosophy is articulated in Deming's 14 Points and Seven Deadly Diseases. Deming's philosophy and TQM go hand in hand. You would be hard-pressed to find a TQM implementation that did not have Deming's philosophy as part of its foundation. Deming noted the villain was variation, and variation exists in everything. Our challenge is to identify and reduce variation in order to improve the quality of the items produced or services provided. For years, many struggled with Deming's points. Some complained that many of the points were not realistic, asking, for example, how can you run a business without using numbers? Doing so was just not possible, they said. In his 1993 book, The New Economics for Industry, Government & Education, Deming provided insight into his thinking. In the text is a chapter titled Theory of Profound Knowledge. Here, Deming outlined the basic thinking for creating change. There were some who intuitively understood his theory years before it was published. Those were the people and groups that had been successful in implementing TQM. The changes required to implement Deming's philosophy are not easy and will take time, but the rewards are worth the changes. We only need to look a Toyota to see just what can be accomplished! For many, if not most, U.S. businesses, Deming's ideas are revolutionary...
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...The author of this portfolio is currently the head boy’s basketball coach at Desert Hot Springs High School. Basketball has always been a passion of the author ever since he was a young boy playing the game in front of his childhood home. Immediately after high school, he had put himself in a situation of being a young father raising a newborn, beautiful little girl. It was then, when he realized that he wanted to become a basketball coach. He felt that it would be tough for him to pursue a career playing basketball, while having to support a family, so he figured why not coach the sport that he was passionate about. His experiences with former coaches, both positive and negative, have helped shape his coaching philosophy. The first high school coach that the author played for helped him realize the coach that he did not want to become for his players. This high school coach would be consistently late to practice, make inappropriate comments to players and simply roll the basketballs out and have the team practice on their own. This coach almost turned the author off from playing the sport that he adored because of the ineffective coaching style that was demonstrated. The author then ended up transferring schools in hope for a better experience playing basketball. The last coach that the author played for in high...
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...public authorities, national governments, and the world community. Peace needs to be based on an order “founded on truth, built according to justice, vivified and integrated by charity, and put into practice in freedom.” Written during the first year of Vatican II, Peace on Earth was the first encyclical addressed to “all people of good will.” Issued shortly after the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 and the erection of the Berlin Wall, this document spoke to a world aware of the dangers of nuclear war. Its optimistic tone and development of a philosophy of rights made a significant impression on Catholics and non-Catholics alike. DOCUMENT OUTLINE Order Between people Every human is a person, endowed with intelligence and free will, who has universal and inviolable rights and duties (#9). Rights • Rights to life and worthy standard of living, including rights to proper development of life and to basic security (#11). • Rights of cultural and moral values, including freedom to search for and express opinions, freedom of information, and right to education (#s 12-13). • Rights to religion and conscience (#14). • Rights to choose one’s state in life, including rights to establish a family and pursue a religious vocation (#s 15-16). • Economic rights, including right to work, to a just and sufficient wage, and to hold private property (#s 18-22). • Rights of meeting and association (#23). • Right to emigrate and immigrate (#25). • Political rights,...
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...In the ancient world, philosophy dominated discourse. As a result, many extraordinary thinkers emerged from places such as Greece and Athens. One of these great individuals was Aristotle. He had the benefit of being taught by Plato. Aristotle was able to gain knowledge directly from Plato as well as from what Plato had learned from his teacher, Socrates. The time of Aristotle’s birth allowed him the unique opportunity to stand on the shoulders of two philosophical giants, Plato and Socrates. In his work, Politics, he examined the advantages and disadvantages of different types of political regimes. Aristotle looked at monarchies, aristocracies, polities, tyrannies, oligarchies, and democracies. In his examination, he proposed an explanation of what his best regime would be. While Aristotle admitted that none of the regimes could match his best regime, it can be argued that the polity is the best regime out of the ones that Aristotle studied. The polity provides the greatest regime because it is an indistinguishable mix of democratic and oligarchic elements that works towards the benefit of both the masses and the wealthy, which promotes the middling effect of Aristotle’s best regime. Aristotle’s best regime is one that mimics what he describes as the best way of life. He defines the ideal way of life as living virtuously. He likens this virtue to a mean that is attainable by every type of person. This lifestyle can also be adapted to the regime of a city (Book 4, Chapter 11...
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...Chapter 3 | | bankruptcy | The legal procedure by which individuals or businesses that cannot meet their financial obligations are relieved of some, if not all, of their debt, p. 82 | business | An organization that strives for a profit by providing goods and services desired by its customers, p. 76 | cartel | An agreement between enterprises to lessen competition, p. 85 | consumerism | A movement that seeks to increase the rights and powers of buyers vis-À-vis sellers, p. 83 | copyright | A form of protection established by the government for creators of works of art, music, literature, or other intellectual property; it gives the creator the exclusive right to use, produce, and sell the creation during the lifetime of the creator and extends these rights to the creator’s estate for 50 years thereafter, p. 81 | costs | Expenses incurred in creating and selling goods and services, p. 77 | deregulation | The removal of rules and regulations governing business competition, p. 82 | excise taxes | Taxes that are imposed on specific items such as gasoline, alcoholic beverages, and tobacco, p. 86 | goods | Tangible items manufactured by businesses, p. 76 | income taxes | Taxes that are based on the income received by businesses and individuals, p. 85 | monopoly | A situation where there is no competition and the benefits of a free market are lost, p. 85 | not-for-profit...
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...The Best War Ever Michael C.C. Adams History has a way of being distorted and viewed unrealistically at times. Because every event and emotion cannot be perfectly recorded, myths and false perspectives are created. In his book, “The Best War Ever,” Adams explains how Americans believed World War II was a clean, glorious and courageous victory, when in reality it was not. The era became viewed as “America's golden age, a peak in the life of society when every thing worked out and the good guys definitely got a happy ending" (Adams, 2). Besides the general population's idea that the United States was saving the day by going to war, the main tool of distorting the reality of war was propaganda. The “greatness” of this war spread so quickly, “the censors hardly needed to tell the film producers that war movies should showcase American heroism and patriotism and that the enemy must be cruel, devious, and unprincipled” (Adams, 11). The impact of the media's spinning the war lead to a positive demeanor in the nation, eventually proving the propaganda to be a necessary evil. World War II, for America, was a testament to the work and reward of the American dream. The media portrayed society during the war as succesful, hard working, and finally coming out of the slumps brought on by the Great Depression. In line with the “melting pot” stereotype of America, people from all ethnicities were fighting for our country (Adams, 11). After the recession, Americans needed a common enemy...
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...The argument which I am focusing on is titled “No One Knowingly Does Evil” and is written by Socrates. This argument concludes that those who do evil things do them involuntarily. According to Socrates it is not in human nature to choose to act in a way what one believes to be harmful, instead of a way that is good. He claimed that all wrong, or evil, is only done out of ignorance and not from the intention to do evil. This view appears controversial because people are known to occasionally commit deeds that are apparently evil either out of self-interest or acting on impulse, against their better judgment. It is at this point that we come to an important clarification. Socrates did not state that doing wrong to others is ever right, but that the motivation for such actions determines the character of the will involve. Socrates maintained that people are never motivated to bring harm to themselves. Since Socrates believed that wrongdoing always harmed the wrongdoer, he saw all wrongdoing as a mistake in judgment or an expression of ignorance. This is especially true in cases where a life full of wrongdoing never physically harms the wrongdoer. Socrates believed that the most pitiable of humans were those who lived under the delusion that their wrongdoing benefited them. Socrates saw no conflict between self-interest and morality. On the contrary, he saw virtue as the greatest benefit and maintained that immoral actions actually harmed the agent and could therefore only be committed...
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