Doctrine Argumentative Essays Samples For Students

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The purpose of the following essay is to research one of the central ideas of the Heraclites philosophy – the doctrine of flux, and to argue whether that doctrine undermines the possibility of knowledge. The particular attention is paid to the ideas of the Heraclites` follower, Cratylus, which form the main opposition to the doctrine. The theory is also evaluated through its relation with other ideas and doctrines of Heraclites, like the idea of singularity and the unity of the opposites.
“Everything flows” is one of the most famous sayings of Heraclitus which serves as the basis for a so-called ...

In March 1947, the president of the United States of America Harry Trumann gave a speech to the congress to which came to be known as the Trumann Doctrine. The speech is very famous because of what he articulated. According to the speech, “We must take immediate and resolute action. I therefore ask the Congress to provide authority for assistance to Greece and Turkey in the amount of $400,000,000 for the period ending June 30, 1948. In requesting these funds, I have taken into consideration the maximum amount of relief assistance which would be furnished to Greece out ...

I think that Jeffery Sachs’shock therapy that was administered to several was successful for the improvements it made on the nations that undertook it. It helped manage price controls and reduce on unemployment. It was even more of a success because the process liberated the markets and eradicated hyperinflation.
Sachs Jeffery an economist saw the falling economies of communist states and took it upon him to find means taking the economies back on their feet. Was Jeffery Sachs successful in his quest to heal nation’s economies through the shock therapy? Did the program bring good or harm ...

Importance of salvation to Christianity

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Salvation is a central issue in Christianity. It is the gateway to eternal life. Generally, baptism and the acceptance that the crucifixion and the death of Jesus Christ on the cross were to atone for sins, qualifies one for salvation (Letter, 1952). The New Testament presents accounts for the life of Jesus Christ, his deeds, his death, resurrection, ascension to heaven and the lives of early Christians. Paul, an author of nearly half of the books in the New Testament, offers great insights on salvation. In his letter to Timothy, he states that all men qualify to be ...

The question as to the continuity of personhood is a question that has been addressed to Buddhism since it’s beginning. In Henry Clarke Warren’s Pali translation of select passages of Buddhist Sacred Books, “Buddhism in Translations” there is a scene where a between The Buddha and a wandering ascetic who demands desperately for an answer of the Buddha to his question, “Whether or not the Saints exist after their death?” The Buddha saw this as a dualistic question, and gave him a nonduelist answer which stemmed from the basic phenomenology of Buddhism. The Buddhist answer the question of whether the saints live after ...

Institutions of higher learning in the United States spend millions of dollars to recruit and train college athletes. These college athletes participate in various events at the expense of their time as students. If in return for their hard work, college athletes get nothing more than a scholarship and health protection, then it is absolutely unfair. This is because everyone around them gets some benefits – from the college coach who earns a decent salary of close to $100,000 a year to the media houses that profit from adverts and the entities that advertise at these college sporting events. Therefore, there the ...

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There is no denying that Aristotle holds the distinction of being one the greatest philosophers during the ancient Greek world, but his ideals transcends into popularity even to today’s modern age. The tenets of virtue are among the prominent subjects of Aristotle’s philosophical views. However, it is apparent that the philosopher has a rather different treatment of virtues as perceived from his arguments reiterating ethical values as personal dispositions. The focus of this discussion is to argue on the subject of whether or not Aristotle’s treatment of the virtues is in fact satisfactory. Examining the philosopher’s ...

Aristotle ethics refers to the category of practical science, its purpose is not an abstract theoretical knowledge, but doing things. Ethics, therefore, does not apply to an accurate knowledge of her subjects rather vague and full of uncertainties and, therefore, are understood enough about. One cannot demand - says Aristotle - the same rigor in the proofs of geometry and rhetorician. The subject of ethics is good, then, to aspire to every action and every choice (προαίρεσις). By its purpose, and directed all good art, so a lot of these goals, but some art are subordinate to other, that is. E. ...

During the last part of the 20th century, the science community began to do things that only a few years before would have been unimaginable. Since 1981 when embryonic stem cells were first isolated from mouse embryos research in molecular biology involving embryonic stems cells has moved quickly, and just as quickly ethic concerned having a background in Christian religious doctrine has fueled a strongly polarized debate as to whether or not such research is ethical. Research in this area has led to accomplishments such as cloned sheep and offers a novel way to treat disease.
Previously in the United States there ...

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When the Founding Fathers set up our form of government, relatively little thought was given to the judicial branch. From early on, the Framers considered the courts to possess the least amount of authority in a democratic republican society. In The Federalist papers, Alexander Hamilton noted that the legislative power was by far the most predominant, whereas the judicial branch was by far the weakest of the three branches of government (Paulsen, 1994, p. 229). Today, however, the judicial branch has grown increasingly influential in shaping policy on a national level. Given the tremendous policy-making authority the Supreme Court ...

Throughout centuries of fighting, the fundamental basis of warfare remains the ideological or militaristic conflict between two opposing sides. While the means, methods and strategies of warfare have changed dramatically in the last four hundred years, governments and militaries have always needed to find a way to ensure that morale remains on their side and encourage antipathy towards their opponents. Influencing activities have been important in warfare throughtout history, with military leaders and campaigns requiring the moral and material support of the people in order to succeed. When looking at the strategies of Napoleon Boneaparte, Clausewitz’s trinity, and the ...

Throughout centuries of fighting, the fundamental basis of warfare remains the ideological or militaristic conflict between two opposing sides. While the means, methods and strategies of warfare have changed dramatically in the last four hundred years, governments and militaries have always needed to find a way to ensure that morale remains on their side and encourage antipathy towards their opponents. To that end, propaganda was created – the biased historical and cultural narratives created by cultures and governments to vilify their opponents and uplift their own military forces. Propaganda has survived four centuries of change through its durability and malleability throughout ...

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The purpose of the following essay is to explore the fundamental aspects of the Descartes` theory on the distinctness of mind and body as formulated in the Sixth Meditation of a philosophical treatise ‘Meditations on the first philosophy’, as well as to present the objections against the Descartes` statement that the mind is distinct from the body. I would also like to briefly summarize the main points of the Sixth Meditation in regard to the existence of material things and the relation between the imagination and the pure intellection.
In the Sixth Meditation “Concerning the Existence of Material Things, ...

Before Liberation, Mao’s thoughts propagated against religious superstition; because there was no clear boundary between religions and superstition, against superstitions also included against superstitions. Religious superstitions were considered anti-social and anti-government, so many religion propagator of was exiled, including Buddhism. Along with Liberation, religion was accepted by society in order to unite all people together, and then the distinction between religion and superstition gradually became clear. Undeniable, religion had close relationship with superstitions, but religions are completely different in ideology then superstition (Jagou, n.d).
Both superstitions and religion are theist idea and unscientific, but this is the ...

The relationship between religious views of creation and the way that humans based on these views think about our relation to nature and/or other cultures and peoples.
The primary religious views of creation which are; evolutionary creation, dynamic development and young-earth creation are treated as consistent with a Judeo-Christian doctrine of theistic formation. Religious views of creation in the bible, Genesis 1:1-3a NRSV, it is well written that the earth was void and darkness was in control covering the surface of the deep while wind from God swept over the face of the waters and God said, ‘Let there ...