1- Compare and contrast various views of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism. Hinduism, one of the oldest religions in the world practiced in India, has a polytheistic system, which means that has more than one god as well as smaller deities. Some of this principal deities in India include Brahma, who is considered as the creator of this reality and the superior god, Shiva, who is the destroyer, and Vishnu, who is the preserver. According to some Hindu sects, Buddha was an incarnation of the god Vishnu, and the purpose of Vishnu is to come back to the earth in difficulty times and reestablish the balance of good and evil. As Hindus believe, he will be reincarnated one more time close to the end of the world because it is not his first incarnation, …show more content…
All opposite principles that an individual can find in the universe is represented by a famous symbol known as the yin-yang. For example, the principles of maleness, the sun, heat, light, heaven, creation, dominance, and so on are under yang, while under yin are the principles completely opposite, such as the principles of femaleness, the moon, cold, darkness, material forms, completion, submission, and so on. Although these principles are reversed, one produces the other and vice versa. Also, the yin and yang achieve changes in the universe through the five material agents known as wood, fire, metal, water, and earth, as they either produce one another, or overcome one another. Therefore, the workings of yin and yang and the progress of the five materials agents can explain any change in the universe. 3- Articulate how principles of Taoism serve as the foundation of the art of Feng …show more content…
E. Moore, and Ludwig Wittgenstein founded a distinct school of philosophical thought to represent analytic philosophy. Even though the differences between analytic philosophy and other school of philosophical thought are not really clear, L. Jonathan Cohen (1923-2006) explains in his book, The Dialogue of Reason, that there are three ways that maybe can prove it. The first possibility is that in contrast to others schools of philosophy, analytic philosophy holds diverse foundational doctrines such as the view adopted by the logical positivist, or empirical positivist where only statements that can be verified either logically or empirically are meaningful. The second is that analytic philosophy uses different doctrines, and the natural language theorists employed this idea in the middle of the last century. Finally, the last possibility is that it is concerned with different problems than other divisions of philosophy. As Jonathan Cohen said, analytic philosophy is principally focused on “normative problems about reasons and