Essays on Enquiry

John Locke’s Theories of Knowledge

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding Outline (Bennett, 2004) I. Of the Origin of Ideas

Perception and Senses- Hume detailed the difference between what the mind perceives and how a person actually feels.

Limitlessness of the Human Imagination- The human mind’s capability of imagining has no bounds. II. Skeptical Doubts Concerning the Operations of the Understanding

Two Kinds of Human Enquiry- The natural division of the human reason.

Relations of Ideas- These are ideas that are already certain and established (e.g. Arithmetics). Matters of Fact- These are ideas that still have room for contradictions (e.g. it will snow tomorrow).

Cause and Effect Relation- This is where all human enquiries are founded upon.

Past Experiences- Hume discusses how the human’s idea of the future is anchored upon experiences from the past. III. Skeptical Solutions of these Doubts- Human’s will only be ...

The ethics behind the space exploration frenzy has remained persistent for many years now. However, never has space exploration elicited more debate, controversy and calls for abandonment than the days that followed the space shuttle Challenger accident. Seeking to improve its record of sending manned mission to space, the United States, through the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), sought to send a crew of seven astronauts to a space expedition whose aim, as it always been, seeking to explore and understand the outer space.

Background Information

The lift off from the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center was televised ...

Fostering a Culture of Learning and Critical Thinking in an Organization's constant learning constitutes a fundamental success factor in its knowledge management and learning systems. Promoting a culture of critical thinking and learning in any organization requires an understanding of the concept. Bailin (2002) defines critical thinking as the process through which people test arguments and claims to determine their merit. Basically, the process involves investigation, interpretation and final judgment. Fostering critical thinking and learning in an organization requires incorporating the various aspects of the process in behaviours and interactions of the people. The ability to think critically entails ...

[Class Title] The human species is believed to have come from hominids, a member of the primate family where the human species is believed to have originated from after a lengthy process of evolution. The Anne and Bernard Spitzer Hall of Human Origins present this unique history of human evolution through fossils. The exhibition covers millions of years of human evolution presented through innovative displays. One of its notable exhibits is the famous ‘Lucy’ skeleton, which was unearthed in Ethiopia by a joint American and French paleoanthropologist team sometime in 1974. The museum also showed partial skulls of the ‘ ...

Descartes, Hume, and the author of Ecclesiastes express some form of skepticism. From their reading and arguments, we understand the extent of their skepticism and how they differ. In this paper, we will express the form of skepticism from Ecclesiastes, Descartes, and Hume. We will proceed ahead to illustrate how their skepticism differs. Moreover, we will provide insight into the different problems that the three philosophers are trying to confront with their respective versions. Furthermore, we will give viable reasons why Descartes version is the most plausible compared to the arguments of other authors. Furthermore, there might be a ...

Logic of enquiry

In relation to the logic of enquiry, it has been presented in a manner that is coherent, as well as, comprehensive just as would be expected. The enquiry in the article has been instrumental in characterizing the staff according to their roles and also making key assumptions that generally dictates the impacts and also ways that an organization can actually implement plans for purposes of turning the assumptions made into reality. However, a weakness of the enquiry logic used is that it has not completely put into perspective both the quantitative and also the qualitative measures regarding the disadvantaged ...

Introduction

When the civil war culminated, the individuals of South and North United States got focused towards an exclusive enquiry in their concentration about the behavior to be conducted with Negro slave. Few of the North and South Americans noticed their disappearance and few of them considered about the colonization of Africa. The notion of extinction received greater critics, and it was observed by Frederick Douglass that individuals who are deemed to be nationals of the United States are African-American slave who born in the United States. However, another aspect of the situation referred to the exploitation of the worker ...

Art and Politics

Life has become lot more complicated than what it was ever before in the history of mankind. Probably, even in comparison to as late as the last fifty years, life today is far more complex, communicative, and all life events seem to happen in real time. Today, there is so much knowledge about everything and knowledge is virtually free. Knowledge no longer endows a strategic advantage on the holder of knowledge. There is so much complexity that everything seems specialize. Knowledge is so freely available today that everyone acquires it at all levels and therefore carry an opinion of ...

Questions that spark the spirit of enquiry

<<Author>> <<Date>> Questions that spark the spirit of enquiry Who can I seek out to assist me in enhancing my evidence-based practice (EBP) knowledge and skills and serve as my EBP mentor? EBP is an invaluable practice that brings to bear a systematic combination of clinical expertise, evidence based research and patient preferences and values; and helps improve patient experiences and outcomes (Melnyk and Fineout-Overholt, 2011). It is important to understand that administrative support and role of the mentors in an EBP program is critical. The selection of the right mentors will ensure ...

Introduction

Politics is an interesting phenomenon that has been around since time immemorial. However, the scientific approach towards understanding politics may have emerged recently when its study was institutionalized and made as an organized discipline. Most scholars believe that politics, as a science, started in the United States somewhere in the 20th century (Berndtson, 2009, p.1; Easton, 2012, p.134). As observed, “political science as an academic discipline was first established in the United States and that it was only after the Second World War, when politics was made a separate field of study at European universities” (Berndtson, 2009, p.1). Many ...

Philosophy final

- What are Descartes’ arguments for Cartesian dualism? Do you find them persuasive? If you do not, do you endorse monism, or not? Explain your answer.

In the dualism, Descartes attempts to solve the problem of mind and body. Descartes contrast the mind and the body that the two exist separately. He believes that human beings have two properties, the physical and the mental properties (Stanford encyclopedias of philosophy, all). The physical properties are those that can be attributed to the physical sciences. For examples, size, height and weight, color, shape, and motion in space, among others. On ...

Dissertation

Introduction: Nowadays our society is shifting dramatically to a more conscious and healthier lifestyle. This has had a direct effect on a range of businesses to increase profitability and their success; businesses like gyms, specialized nutrition shops, businesses related to cosmetics, clothing brands, and a whole new range of organic and “healthy” foods products and companies. The report “Food consumption trend and drivers” mentions “Throughout the world, major shifts in dietary patterns are occurring, even in the consumption of basic staples towards more diversified diets” (Kearney, 2010). The people who are changing tend to include supplements in their diets to help them ...

Introduction

After reading Rousseau’s “state of nature” and how Diderot constructs “natural man,” we are left with a number of questions. For one, we ask ourselves the meaning of human nature. Secondly, we ask ourselves how the two thinkers, Diderot and Rousseau locate as well as describe nature. We also ask whether Rousseau’s “state of nature” map onto Diderot constructs of the natural man.

Rousseau is comparable to Diderot in that his intention was essentially to critique his personal society. The similarity between Rousseau and Diderot is that each one of them uses nature as a ...

The notion of crime analysis is analyzed differently with diverse scholars. Nevertheless, all the defining factors have common features that unite the field. According to Sampson (2007), crime analysis is a key element in police agency since it makes use of information in the intelligence systematic methods. The major factor that play a big role in criminal detentions are first, crime study, that is, burglary, rape, robbery among others (Lemonick, 2007). Secondly, there are chaotic issues or problems that include suspicious activities, noise complaints, and thief alarms among others. Therefore, crime analysis presents a preventive measure and an understanding in a situation which ...

When I started the inquiry process, I thought I knew the subject well. It turned out I was wrong. I ended up having to make extensive changes to my inquiry question as I developed the topic. To start I had to change the main issue and make it more specific; the inquiry process was too effective, and my choice of focus too general. I ended up with an excessive amount of information. Therefore, I changed the topic from medical errors in a hospital to be more specific to induced labor. This topic was still too general, and I was getting ...

This paper will argue that despite habit, custom, and the existence of God, one does not know in fact if the future will be a resemblance of the past. Basing on the works of famous philosophers Immanuel Kant and David Hume, we’ll come to the conclusion that no one can foresee one’s future even on the basis of strict knowledge of the past and even having habits and customs that presumably have to lead to some definite outcome. The two thinkers argued about those things, and using their ideas we’ll substantiate the thesis under consideration.

Hume was ...

Naturally, societies condemn murderers and advocate therapy in case an individual contemplates suicide. Both actions preserve a life that is not only precious but also considered a gift from God. By extension, even atheists conform to the cultural norms that render lives susceptible to God’s will alone and never to that of a human being. With that in mind, individuals avoid the question of euthanasia or mercy killing where people opt for suicide or voluntary murder when their lives become unworthy. It is plausible that most individuals who seek euthanasia have incurable diseases that cause them immense pain and suffering, but ...

Thesis

The global financial crisis was a period during which downturns were experienced in the stock markets, economic activities as well as losses in the housing market all over the world. During this period, banks had to be bailed out by national governments and consumer wealth declined significantly. The result was a major recession between 2008 and 2009 . This paper looks at the global financial crisis in the world, its effect in the US and measures taken by the US to manage it. This financial crisis was experienced in the world in the late 2000’s and the US was hit ...

Introduction

Man has been dependent on the animals for its survival for food, companionship, and competition. Man has also used animals to gain knowledge about its surroundings. One of the earliest examples being that of physician Galen who used animals to demonstrate that blood flowed in arteries and not air. The man has come a long way from times of Galen and now, dogs, cats, monkeys, hamsters, rabbits, guinea pigs, and other animals are integral to the domain of scientific research. Research involves three distinct facets: acquiring knowledge, animals use in teaching exercises, and testing on animals of compounds, devices, or ...

In Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Freire outlines his concept of banking education: the notion that, ‘knowledge is a gift bestowed by those (teachers) who consider themselves knowledgeable upon those (students) whom they consider to know nothing. (2014, p.2) To Freire, banking education is problematic as it, ‘negates education as a process of enquiry,’ (2014, p.2) through the assumption that each student is completely ignorant. He asserts that: ‘Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students’ (Freire, 2014, p. 3) In the following essay I ...

David Hume was a successful philosopher who was social and pleasing to be around. His first book, Treatise of Human Nature, did not receive much attention from people. However, it did not deter him from coming up with his second book, The Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. The book is a remake of his first book and focuses on building on empirical philosophy done by Locke and Berkeley. The book also attacks Descartes’ metaphysical rationalism as well as others. The book has an argumentative series that has incremental steps, with each chapter containing its logistics and succeeds the previous chapter. The book ...

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Introduction Psychodynamics is an approach to Psychology that systematically analyzes human behavior and studies the forces that drive behavior (WebMD, 2006). Therapists attempt to understand the personality of patients and help them deal with their problems. The Psychodynamic model is one of the first models to be used for analysis of personality. Psychoanalytical approach was first developed by Sigmund Freud (1856–1939). This approach to treatment is non intensive and includes no more than three to five sessions a week. It is based on the principle that an individual shows abnormal behavior when he is engaged in a conflict with ...

Invisible hand concept

A great economist, philosopher, scholar and researcher Adam Smith passed this world a few centuries ago and left us quite controversial matters to be discussed and clarified. Famous and prominent scholars tend to leave us certain mysteries for this world to wonder.

In his book “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, Adam Smith asserts:

“Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of the society, which he has in view. But the study of his own advantage naturally, or rather necessarily, leads him to prefer that employment which is most advantageous to ...

1) Anyone with vision knows that it is the most pervasive of all the senses. To find the truth in this is that one someone hears something, like something falling off the table, one looks to confirm if what one has heard is what it sounded like. But when someone has seen something it is already convincing enough. Vision does not appeal to the other senses for confirmation but the other senses appeal to vision in this way. While it may be the most convincing of all of the five sense. Descartes did not believe that it should be ...

Business Law

Introduction Understanding the legal and ethical framework underpinning the operation of businesses is a prerequisite for engaging in activities and practices that are legally compliant. Most of the dilemmas facing business individuals and organizations stem from the lack of understanding and failure to adhere to the laws. Notably, laws specify what is legally permissible in the corporate society and as well stipulates the consequences that may follow in the event of engaging in non-compliant activities. Moreover, it is important to underscore that laws are never static. They can change from time to time and it is upon the business ...

Introduction

Philosophy is all about questioning and setting the rules to find out the truth and its different approaches. It defines the abstract concepts and emphasizes on logic with rules of argumentation. Philosophy has researched science with good detail and influenced scientific inventions by thorough reasoning and intellectual thought (Popper, 2014). The subject of philosophy went deep down and developed various approaches, scientific method, and practices of science, adopting the strategy of discovering the facts, mechanisms, and laws to study the natural world. Science is a collection of knowledge, which is based upon predictions and testable explanation. As a result, science and ...

Visual communication4

Automated check-in machine..4

Product display .5

Signs .6 Sitting places 7 Store planning .8 Entrance and exit 8 Services desk 8 Shipping and receiving merchandise ..9

Storage of merchandise 9

Storage space 10 Store design ...10 Employee break room ...10

Dressing room 10

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Conclusion .12 Reference ..13 Introduction Walgreen Company is one of the largest retail and drugstore in the United States. The company operates more than 8,217 stores in the 50 states. It was found in 1901 in Chicago where the headquarters is located. The company ...

Visual communication4

Automated check-in machine..4

Product display .5

Signs .6 Sitting places 7 Store planning .8 Entrance and exit 8 Services desk 8 Shipping and receiving merchandise ..9

Storage of merchandise 9

Storage space 10 Store design ...10 Employee break room ...10

Dressing room 10

Space allocation 11 Layout and circulation ..11 Merchandise ..11

Presentation 11

Conclusion .12 Reference ..13 Introduction Walgreen Company is one of the largest retail and drugstore in the United States. The company operates more than 8,217 stores in the 50 states. It was found in 1901 in Chicago where the headquarters is located. The company ...

Introduction

Since its inception some twenty thousand years ago, human civilization has grown enormously and has spread all over the entire globe in past few centuries. The vastness of human civilization is managed through institutions – the institutions of education, state, law, religion, family, marriage etc. These institutions are all interrelated. Stability and order in the society are primary purposes of these institutions. The functioning of all these institutions is based on certain principles and the central to these principles is the principle of infinite value of human life. Killing of a human life stands in opposition to the principle of infinite ...

Abstract

Engineering ethics is the set of moral principles and ethics pertaining to engineering which is to be followed at both individual and organisational level [1].

Introduction

Engineering ethics can also be described as a study of moral values, policies, individuals’ character and the way of reaching a goal by an individual or an organisation[1]. The Quebec bridge disaster

Emergence of Engineering As A Profession

Engineering became popular and it emerged as a popular and wanted profession in the 19 century. Engineers were too independent and the industries employing them found it hard to have a control of them[1]. The beginning of 20th century saw a series of failures ...

Introduction

Fire Fighting or Fire Services in United States date back to 17th century due to conflagrating inferno of 1631 in Boston, a colony of Massachusetts Bay passed legislation for no smoking in public accommodations. In 2012, 1,129,250 firefighters worked in United States, 31% of them were career fire fighters and 69% of them were volunteers. Currently there are 30,100 Fire Departments in United States alone and these departments have 6,900 aerial apparatus, 66,900 pumpers, 52,650 fire stations and 74,000 suppression vehicles. In 2012, 68% of the responses from fire departments were for medical ...

A scholarship presents nurses with the opportunity to observe, analyze, and synthesize practice knowledge as well as to test theories and procedures learned. A Scholarship leads to a new understanding of nursing phenomena. One of the roles of a DNP-prepared nurse is practice-enquiry, which is an exercise that seeks to identify practice challenges experienced by practicing nurses with the intention of deriving solutions (Pape & Robert 43). In practice-enquiry, the nurse has the role of evaluating practice evidence with the intention of identifying the challenges that exist (Pape & Robert 43). For instance, an investigating a health organization's mentorship program can help in the ...

Book VII - On Shadows and Realities in Education

SOCRATES - GLAUCON AND now, I said, let me show in a figure how far our nature is enlightened or unenlightened: --Behold! human beings living in a underground den, which has a mouth open towards the light and reaching all along the den; here they have been from their childhood, and have their legs and necks chained so that they cannot move, and can only see before them, being prevented by the chains from turning round their heads. Above and behind them a fire is blazing at a distance, and between the fire and the prisoners there is a raised way; and you will ...

Hume argues that "knowledge of [the relation of cause and effect] is not, in any instance, attained by reasonings a priori, but arises entirely from experience, when we find that any particular objects are constantly conjoined with each other" (Bailey, p. 297lc). This sentence announces the conclusion for which Hume will argue over the next pages. In An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, David Hume argues that there are no absolute premises to make claims about future occurrences. Even though our experiences and our reasoning make us think that objects would act in a particular way, we still cannot be certain ...

Theology reflects an activity that is socially located in sense that our judgment about what is right of true is based on the social location, culture and education. As a result it becomes complicated to reveal the whole truth of what people believe to other who does not exhibit the same location and culture. Each and every individual exhibits specific social traditions which are a fundamental basis on all rational inquiry. Therefore, all the knowledge especially about the theology is mediated though this inherited perspective. Thus, the rational activity that a person demonstrates are socially historically context bound. Socially located concept ...

Human Resource Development (HRD) is a function that helps employees develop their abilities and skill sets to suit the job requisite and to enhance the growth within the organization. It includes training, mentoring, coaching, succession planning among others. HRD focuses on the development of the superior workforce for the organizations to achieve their goals in service to their customers. While planning to attain these requirements at its best, in the past, the leaders of the organizations have looked at the employees as a channel to attain the established targets. Their focus was on giving strength to these channels in all the ...

Self evident truths according to the Declaration

According to the Declaration, all people, men and women are created equal, and that the creator has given each person the unalienable rights like the right to life, right to liberty and right to happiness. Also in the Declaration truths is the institution of government. In this truth, the government is founded amongst the people and it obtains it’s fair and just powers from the assent of the governed. This is affirmed by Armitage (2007) “the governed have got the powers to abolish a government which do not hold unto the virtues of fairness and justice”. Additionally, in case ...

Table of Contents

Executive Summary 4

Introduction 5 Background 5 What is Flight Reservation System? 6 Relevance of Flight Reservation Systems 6 Research Methods and Evaluation Criteria 8 Results 10 Conclusion and Recommendations 11 Conclusion 11 Recommendations 12 References 13 APPENDIX 14 FLIGTH RESERVATION SYSTEM 14

Executive Summary Reservations, be it in a hotel or any other place is crucial and should be treated cautiously. This is so since the one booking needs to be ...

1. Exposition The role of PKI’s and its essence in gauging and controlling online access of customer web and online information is critically analyzed and given a prior enquiry

PKIs, Online Security and Business

This part centers its enquiry into the public key encryption and the results or consequences it poses on business. It forms the rubric of the paper.

How the PKI’s enhance Business Security

PKI’s adoption and installation in different business environments has had the competitive advantage of improving internet and online security. This part examines how this level of indulgence has led to ...

David Hume, one of the foremost philosophers of the 18th century, was a skeptic and empiricist whose outlook on free will is based heavily in the sciences and what is known. Hume, being a compatibilist, deals mainly with the concept of reconciling the freedom and emotional nature of humanity with the coldly rational perspective of determinism. According to Hume, human behavior is commanded primarily by desire, instead of reason - "reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions" (Hume, Treatise, p. 295). The concept of free will is summarized greatly through the differentiation between liberty and necessity; ...

Abstract

Research has shown that we learn through our senses with each sense accounting for different percentage of that teaching. Through the skillful use of audio visual recordings and other instructional media, we can bring the world to the classroom. This paper therefore addresses the impact of education technology in student achievement. The use of education technology in teaching and learning process heightens motivation to learn. Ideally then, learners should have available, combinations of audiovisual experiences which reinforce one another so as to provide the most efficient path for possible mastery of understanding and concept. One of the trends within ...