Ontology Essays

Ontology Nursing is one of the few professions that affords ordinary individuals the opportunity to have an extraordinary impact on someone’s life. However, nursing is more than a profession, it is more than treating those who are ill, rather it is a continually evolving model of care and service to others. Nursing is a commitment to a career of altruism, empathy, advocacy, and knowledge applied to the endeavor of healing, and health promotion. This includes, but is not limited to a nurse’s practice

The Ontology of the Photographic Image André Bazin André Bazin through “The Ontology of the Photographic Image” examines how the mechanically produced photographic image is superior to the manual plastic arts for preserving humans and reality through representation. Bazin explores the existence of the photographic image through his essay. Plastic arts were used in the Egyptian civilization to preserve human beings. The statues were a magic identity-substitute for the dead. The religion of ancient

Right In Plain View: Voyeurism and the Anti-ontology of Cache Privacy in the modern world is becoming a commodity that is increasingly difficult to come by. It seems as if every day there is a news story about a massive breach of private data, or of some invasive new screening method being introduced in airports. The Internet has also enabled people to broadcast their information out into the world, with many people allowing others to look into their existence through social media in an oddly

Why do sociological theorists need to be concerned with issues of epistemology and ontology? As a sociological theorist in the making, I will be arguing that the issues of epistemology and ontology are the very basis of knowledge relating to all sociological theories. Ontology and epistemology are the foundation of sociology, and therefore the basis of sociological theory. To begin, one must be sure what exactly these two concepts mean. Epistemology is concerned with how knowledge comes to be.

body in his Treatise on Man (L’homme) and its relation to his ontology and the To Mesland, 9 February 1645 letter. In the Treatise on Man (L’homme), Descartes claims that the human body is composed of of a soul and a body, and proceeds to provide a description of the body itself in order to demonstrate that mind and body would have to be joined to constitute a human body. In like manner, this description follows the same path as his ontology, in which Descartes argues that res cogitans and res extensa

ultimately true. The ontology of that reality, correspondingly, is conventional; objects of this reality do not ultimately exist. But that they are empty of ultimate existence is an ultimate nature of these objects – an ultimate truth [2]. It cannot be thought or expressed, then, that they have this nature. This is a clear contradiction. By thinking or expressing that ultimate truth is inexpressible or uncharacterizable, one creates a paradox of expressibility. Paradox of ontology Beneath this paradox

The term ‘dualism’ has a variety of uses if we see the previous literature. In common sense, the notion is that, for any particular area of interest, there are two commonly different classes of things. In theory, for example a ‘dualist’ is one who believes that Good and Evil-or God and the Devil-are independent and more or less equal forces in the world. Dualism compare with monism, which is the theory that there is only one significant type, category of thing and rather less commonly, with pluralism

designed by God, the perfect engineer or architect. Moreover, Leibniz understood the world as if ordered and guided by God, the supreme monarch, who is concerned solely with the happiness of his subjects. Mare, Marin Lucio. "Leibniz's More Fundamental Ontology: from Overshadowed Individuals to Metaphysical Atoms." (n.d.): Networked Digital Library of Theses & Dissertations, EBSCOhost In this dissertation, author Marin Mare attempts to illuminate underrepresented views on individuals and atoms

Sartre’s Being and Nothingness: an essay on phenomenological ontology is a study of the consciousness of being. Ontology refers to the study of being, and phenomenological means of or relating to perceptual consciousness. In this essay, I would be giving a distinction between being-in-itself (en-soi, unconscious being) and the being-for-itself (pour-soi, conscious being). I would then cite an example from Sartre on an individual practicing bad faith in order to deny their freedom and responsibility

The ontological argument, formulated by Anselm in his book proslogion, is written from a faith seeking understanding perspective; ontology meaning exploring the concept of all types of existence, typically Gods’. The argument is an a priori argument, this meaning that it is based on logic and is therefore deductive and an analytical argument. Therefore called the ontological argument. The ontological argument explores the existence of a necessary God. Furthermore, the argument is strong due to its

work was the platform for his lectures. His philosophy and wisdom were practical. “God has many names, though he is only one being” (Aristotle). He believed that there is only one God and he associated this belief through Metaphysics; the “unmoved mover”. His reasoning for this is that the universe (heavens) is constantly a moving entity and it is eternal. Since it is in constant motion this is how it communicates to all living things. This mover is unchanging in nature and it has the ability to

Here is a person who is what he is; but he does not make us forget, does not absorb , cover over entirely the objects he holds and the way he holds them , his gestures , limbs, gaze , thought, skin, which escape from under the identity of his substance , which like a torn sack is unable to contain them. ("Reality and its Shadow" 135) The intellectual structure of intentionality is preceded by direct sensuous contact. It is not a being-toward-death that conditions the form of the book, but the

St. Anselm’s Ontological Argument Anselm, the Archbishop of Canterbury, first proposed the ontological argument about the existence of God. The Archbishop relies on ontology to prove that God indeed does exist. In this way, the archbishop was able to show God’s existence using His definition. Although the ontology was used for such purposes before Anselm, it is thought that he put it in the most comprehensive manner. The basis of the argument is the use of logic, which means that to prove that God

with the ultimate, interpreted as the God who we love. Occultism, refer to the extension of knowing the thing like (psychokinesis, telepathy, precognition, mediumship, clairvoyance, and retrocognition.) 8. Metaphysics has many subdivisions like ontology, they ask questions that involve with existence: What is Being? What is real? What exists? What are things made of (properties and substances)? Cosmology, which asks about everything from space, reality, and matter. Then axially which asks about

Jean-Paul Sartre was a philosopher who focused on phenomenological ontology and his book, Being and Nothingness, wanted to demonstrate how free will exists. What mainly intrigued me from his book was his belief that human existence had two fundamental features. The first feature is that consciousness is intentional. Through our consciousness, we are always directing our intention onto some object or person, therefore, giving meaning to the world and the objects around us. While our consciousness

This argument is not wrong; after all, Sartre’s stance is deeply rooted in ontology and Nagel’s in psychology. In fact, in his paper, Nagel even notes while Sartre’s notion is quite intelligent it is ultimately doomed to fail. This is due to the fact that  Sartre’s notion of one reducing the Other to simply an object or subject

Dakarai Bishop Professor Leib PHI 2010 1 March 2018 Essay 2 During the Middle Ages, the proof of God was a question that many philosophers of that time tried to answer. Despite many individuals already believing in God, the philosophers still wanted to answer the question of “does God exist”. A principle called Ockham’s Razor, which was developed by William of Ockham, was used by many of these empiricist philosophers to challenge or align with the arguments regarding the proof of God’s existence

Why we study power, the question of subject Michel Foucault’s main goal is not to try to define the phenomenon of power or nor to elaborate the foundations of such types of analysis. His main objectives are to create a mode by which a human being made self as a subject in our culture. In this article, he has dealt with three modes of objectification, which a human being into the subject. the first is Mode of inquiry, which gives the status of science. Eg the objectivating of the productive subject

Reality, perception, science, philosophy, and arrogance. All these are at the heart of a single question: “If a tree falls and nobody hears it, does it make a sound?” The immediate instinct is to say, “yes of course!” However, the answer is not that simple. Philosophers such as Plato and George Berkeley have debated about the perception of reality and the existence of objects beyond our mind. Many religions incorporate the question of whether the mind makes reality or vice versa. Even quantum physicists

Does God exist? This is a question that a lot of people have on their minds. People want to know how did we get here, is there a being beyond us that got us here, or did we come through from evolution. It has been studied by many philosophers to find the answer to this question. People believe what they want and most of the time ones mind cannot be changed. There are a couple of arguments that philosophers have come up with. When one is looking at different general types of arguments for God’s existence