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 Topic: Fukuyama's "End of History" |
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| hcooper2015 Replies: 15 Views: 2171 |
 Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 6, 2014 Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2014 9:06 pm Subject: Fukuyama's "End of History" |
| What exactly is Fukuyama’s hypothesis/thesis in your own words? Does he make a convincing, well-proven case? Do you agree with him? Why or why not?
I had the exact reaction Rachel said we would hav ... |
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| Topic: Newton Reading - How did Light change science? |
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| hcooper2015 Replies: 17 Views: 834 |
Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 6, 2014 Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2014 8:14 pm Subject: Newton Reading - How did Light change science? |
| Newton was one of the first scientists to use experimentation in his scientific research. His experimentation differed from Aristotle and Descartes, for example, because he did not just observe, he s ... | |
| Topic: Contat and Cats |
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| hcooper2015 Replies: 21 Views: 936 |
Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 6, 2014 Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2014 9:27 pm Subject: Contat and Cats |
| Another Short post after a long Passover seder!
I don't think that Contat was as much of a historian as he was a story teller. He told a story that changed history but not History. The story he told ... |
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| Topic: Darwin, Marx, Turner |
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| hcooper2015 Replies: 17 Views: 830 |
Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 6, 2014 Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2014 10:00 pm Subject: Darwin, Marx, Turner |
| This is so late to post but I just got home from a passover seder where we talked Marx and his writings!
Most of what people said were what we discussed in class today as being the incorrect interp ... |
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| Topic: Darwin, Marx, Turner |
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| hcooper2015 Replies: 17 Views: 830 |
Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 6, 2014 Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2014 4:35 pm Subject: Darwin, Marx, Turner |
| Question : Do you think that writers like Marx, Darwin and Turner were influenced directly by Hegel’s dialectic or that Hegel put words to a process that already existed? Thus, were the three writers’ ... | |
| Topic: Kant and Hegel |
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| hcooper2015 Replies: 20 Views: 881 |
Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 6, 2014 Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2014 9:38 pm Subject: Kant and Hegel |
| How do you think that each philosopher we read about would answer the question: what is truth? | |
| Topic: Kant and Hegel |
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| hcooper2015 Replies: 20 Views: 881 |
Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 6, 2014 Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2014 9:33 pm Subject: Kant and Hegel |
| It is clear that Kant and Hegel understood cause and effect differently. For example Kant’s sense of causality was extremely rigid like a mathematical proof. He believed that one cause always led to ... | |
| Topic: Galileo |
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| hcooper2015 Replies: 19 Views: 867 |
Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 6, 2014 Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2014 9:43 pm Subject: Galileo |
| What is the role of experience and “authorities”?
How are we able to know what we know? Galileo warned his readers to be skeptical of authority. He recognized that people in power, or in position ... |
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| Topic: Herodotus and Thucydides |
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| hcooper2015 Replies: 22 Views: 1241 |
Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 6, 2014 Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 7:48 pm Subject: Herodotus and Thucydides |
| Who do you consider the father of history? Why? How are you defining history? Post your Owen thoughts, but respond to other's ideas, too.
I believe that Herodotus was the father of history. He may ... |
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| Topic: Aristotle's Philosophy of Nature |
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| hcooper2015 Replies: 21 Views: 1026 |
Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 6, 2014 Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2014 9:07 pm Subject: What is the role of experience and logic in acquiring knowle |
| What is the role of experience and logic in acquiring knowledge? :
Aristotle believed that each "thing" in the world was put on earth for an evolutionary purpose (to put it in modern term ... |
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