government and only a small portion of whites were member of churches. This was caused from decline in commitment to the church because they were considered too formal or traditional. This spurred the Second Great Awakening; the opposition of religious rationalism and encouraging church establishments (Brinkley‚ 2012). Politics Thomas Jefferson believed in a national government that was to be limited in power. The federal government should only have the powers that the Constitution specifically states it
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human behavior and tried to determine the essential nature of knowledge. Aristotle sought to categorize his observations. The Scientific Revolution Newtonian influences Freudian influence Skepticism Realism Conceptualism Nominalism Empiricism Rationalism Absolute Idealism Existentialism Phenomenology Hermeneutics Structuralism Deconstruction Critical Theory Pragmatism Behaviorism Functionalism Thales‚ Anaximander‚ Anaximenes‚ Leucippus‚ Democritus‚ Socrates‚ Plato‚ Aristotle‚ Pyrrho‚ Descartes
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What were the causes and consequences of the Great Awakening? Discuss key people who influenced the Great Awakening and the differences between old and new lights. Info: • The Great Awakening was a spiritual renewal that swept the American Colonies‚ particularly New England‚ during the first half of the 18th Century. Causes: • Glorious Revolution of 1688: fighting between religious and political groups came to a halt with the Church of England was made the reigning church of the country.
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Ancient societies were bold in rejecting the ideologies such as scientism‚ positivism‚ and rationalism (Kinna). The modern generations have embraced this three aspect and often demand more. It is evident that the utopian ideologies are real in the modern world with technology taking the center stage. Globalization has taken over the world‚ and the
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century France and England A.K.A. the age of reason climate of inquiry Lessening Control of the Church The Protestant Reformation- Martin Luther The Printing Press Scientific Developments The New World (America!) Philosophies of the Time Rationalism: Rene Descartes (math)- humans‚ by reason alone‚ can discover universal truths Sir Isaac Newton- Mechanical science. All truth found in nature‚ rejection of supernatural religion. Emphasis is placed on principles of deduction (1687) Deism: The
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In 1967‚ Robert L. Scott started a seminal debate within the rhetoric community with his essay‚ “On Viewing Rhetoric as Epistemic.” His argument – rhetoric is epistemic - has been analyzed and/or criticized by many scholars. Scott himself followed up in 1976 with an article titled‚ “On Viewing Rhetoric as Epistemic: Ten Years Later” in order to address some of these concerns‚ and add to his original thoughts. Despite this follow-up‚ authors still continue criticize and defend his work. This essay
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first popularized by Ivan Turgenev (see below)‚ it was first introduced into philosophical discourse by Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743–1819)‚ who used the term to characterize rationalism‚ and in particular Immanuel Kant’s "critical" philosophy in order to carry out a reductio ad absurdum according to which all rationalism (philosophy as criticism) reduces to nihilism‚ and thus it should be avoided and replaced with a return to some type of faith and revelation. (See also fideism.) Friedrich Nietzsche’s
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posits that humans all bet with their lives either that God exists or does not exist. Skeptical Rationalism- Faith is not acceptable if there is no proof or something to back it up. Ex: If person A says he loves person B because she is kind but if you cant prove person B is kind then your faith does not exist They believe that faith is an irrational belief that a proposition is true. Believing Rationalism- Reduces faith to one’s acceptance of some proposition as true. Accept belief based on faith
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branded belief system. In existentialism views‚ personal articulation of being is the olny way to rise above humanity`s absurd condition of much suffering and inevitable death. Existentialism is a reaction against traditional philosophies‚ such as rationalism and empiricism‚ that seek to discover an ultimate order in metaphysical principles or in the structure of the observed world‚ and thereby seek to discover universal meaning. Existentialism originated with the nineteenth-century
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English 4 5 April 2013 Naturalism The rise of the violent and radical Montagnards signaled an important moment in British‚ American‚ and French social thought. The late eighteenth century had been characterized by optimism‚ progressivism‚ rationalism‚ and secularism. The violent over-throw of the French Revolution and the increasing disorder and poverty of urban life in England‚ led to a retreat from these values. The result was a revival of religion and deep questioning of the notion of progress
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