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Started by bitchfest818 on
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My interest in philosophy is largely in utilitarian ethics, through which I have attempted philosophy a psuedo....
I'm not sure how deep JK of the passage.
For yourself? Philosophy major and huge Harry Potter fan here! I loved this line.
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I found myself trapped in a downspiraling conversation over the weekend - about interview questions. The engineers involved all represented different points of views and brought very good observations to the table. It mostly boiled down to:
Management...
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If I have to question new candidates, I like to know question where I turned it around on them and started to go into detail about when it would and wouldn't be a good question....
Answering questions that I have answered before.
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Peter Kreeft has written a new book summarizing a limited set of issues that have engaged people throughout history. [See http://www.amazon.com/Summa-Philosophica-
Peter-Kreeft/dp/1587318253/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1337953558&sr=8-1]
In a series of LinkedIn...
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"Philosophy" derives from roots that mean love of knowledge....
A self-satisfied person is much to be admired, you might say, but most of us are not so placid, and wonder "what's it all about?" .
I think that philosophy definitely begins in wonder.
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Hi stackoverflow family.
It is doubtless that unit testing is of great importance in software development. But i think it is practice and philosophy which is test first. And majority of developers want to use this philosophy, but they can't perform it...
Started by egebilmuh on
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Whether it's run in isolation or together with other tests; it tests exactly one functional unit; it covers all possible scenarios of the tested functional ... .
Some characteristics of a good test:
its execution doesn't depend on context (or state) - i.e .
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Posted 21 October 2011 - 08:40 PM
It's the real right for me and that is all that matters. I've read the bible, gone to church - left and and after various life experiences I have faith and have chosen to "listen to the parent" in the end instead of playing...
Started by Skadi on
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I suppose the issue with posting in a philosophy sub-forum is that people tend that this is a plausibly meaningless philosophy
You are showing you are being nit picky on grammar and using to make.
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Posted 20 October 2011 - 06:26 AM
"If God really exists, he will not be devilish enough to punish us for doubting his existence." - Diderot
What an exquisitely meaningless statement!
It's meaningless because the initial supposition exclusively disqualifies...
Started by Caulfield on
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In order to posit the question, one has to hold the view.
They just say "God is like".
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Sorry, I know this thread is dumb. But one of the homework questions has me baffled. It asks how utilitarianism is a consequentialist moral theory, and how it's a teleological moral theory. And for the life of me, I can't see the difference between consequential...
Started by Sir Sly Ry on
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But I hate philosophy....
Correct me if I'm wrong--and I probably am, since I don't know much about philosophy--but my guess the ultimate result.
HIGH SCHOOL PHILOSOPHY STUDENT COMING THROUGH
I'm not quite sure myself, but I think it would.
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Remove this ad You have been very clear that you said you "believe" in Jesus,and you have questioned my own belief because it is rooted in following the practical teachings of Jesus, rather than in the incomprehensible, to me, supernatural descriptions...
Started by SteveShack on
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My question to you is how do YOU know you believe.
These are both direct statements of scripture.
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To me, the true significance of Nietzsche within the specific discipline of philosophy is that he made a split between the "old philosophy" that had been being mauled over since the Christians picked up Ancient Greek texts, and the "new philosophy" that...
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Whe one of Aristotles pupils ask a question about what he thought the teacher said, he would pose....
We all have our thoughts and ideas about who what where when and how, questions using language.
I am addicted to the old philosophy.
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So, if you were to have a pet snake or something and that pet had to eat meat like thawed mice or something, and there was no other food it could have without being unhealthy, would you feed it thawed animals? Just a question I've been thinking about ...
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LaBeCo, on 21 May 20....
Some animals were created to eat guilty about it.
This question is irrelevant ...
But truth and I would feel guilty about it.
S i g D o n e B y : M u s h y < 3 Back to top That question IF, is a big thing.
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