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Purpose of Education
The purpose of education is reliant on the form of the family and society, and the historical situation and place an individual is raised within. Our society is mainly a representative democracy founded on the principles in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution as amended. The current situation is one of fast economic globalization oriented towards knowledge-based industries intended at increasing human longevity and enhancing human aptitude. Zuk and Dalton’s interpretation is very relevant at present they say that the primary purpose of education is not to organize children for jobs or to make our nation economically competitive in international markets. Public education is a significant element of a working democracy and offers much more than measuring what we do in terms of dollars and cents or the economic return on our investment. (Zuk & Dalton, 1999). (more…)
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Introduction
Existentialism and Behaviorism are two of the most popular theories of the twentieth century developing in the aftermath of the First World War. Both the philosophies have strong proponents and people who oppose the theories. On one hand, Existentialism preserves existence precedes essence: This entails that the human being has no spirit, no essential self, and is no more than what he is. He is only the sum of life is so far he has shaped and achieved for himself. Existentialism got its name from insisting that existence top spirit. (more…)
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Naturalism is both an ontological and an epistemological thesis, frequently taken together: all of the authenticity is natural, that everything that exists is amenable to scientific analysis. In essence, the ontological thesis contemplates that: the world of nature should form a single sphere without incursions from outside by divine or human, souls or spirits, and without having to lodge strange entities like non- natural values or substantive abstract universals. Natural entities’ includes theoretical entities which cannot be directly pragmatic, but whose existence is postulated whether real or merely as instrumental constructs to explain different phenomena. In totality, the different methods and levels of explanation should form a constant chain, amenable finally to empirical testing. (more…)
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Socrates begins his refutation of Thrasymachus’s position by eliciting Thrasymachus’s sincere conviction that the unjust person always tries to outdo (pleonektein get the better of) everyone in every situation. This admission followed directly by a problematic argument for the claim that justice is associated with cleverness, wisdom, and virtue. Thrasymachus famously responds that he is “not satisfied” with the argument and threatens not to engage in the conversation further unless given the opportunity to reply. He is given no such opportunity and for the most part seems to follow through on his threat. (more…)
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Most of us do not think about euthanasia until it is too late – until we ourselves or someone that we love is faced with death. Only then do we come up against the legal and moral questions surrounding the ending of a life, and then we are likely to find that our options are far fewer than we might have thought that they would be. However, many ethicists have either directly addressed the issue of euthanasia or written generally about the arena of moral and ethical conduct under which euthanasia must be considered. (more…)
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The theoretical orientation of pastoral/ministerial therapy and counseling has been described by Beel (2001), who asserts that cognitive therapy as a psychological theory originates from both biblical and secular sources. The Christian approach to counseling, says Beel (2001), involves making an agenda, dialoguing and identifying wrong beliefs, debating them through, and winning the client over to the truth. (more…)
