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For Buddhists, ‘impermanence (anicca) is the most important of the Three Marks of Existence.’

The Three Marks of Existence are anicca, dukkha, and anattā, or impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, and not-self. Impermanence is the principle that life is always changing and cannot be controlled by man; ...

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What is the statement 'God is Dead' talking about, and how is it relevant to the rise in Atheism?

Nietszche came up with the phrase 'God is Dead' in his book The Gay Science. By saying God is dead he is directly relating to the rise in Atheism and how more and more people were starting to bec...

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Briefly explain Berkeley's idealism.

For Berkely, there is not a world with physical objects that is external to us. The sense data we perceive with our sense organs are bundled together as 'ideas'. For example the idea 'chair' is a bundle o...

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Explain how one of Gettier’s original counter examples attacks the tripartite view of knowledge.

The tripartite view of (propositional) knowledge (call this view: TVK) is a view that wishes to give an analysis of constructions such as "X knows that p" where 'X' stands for a noun ph...

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Explain St Thomas Aquinas' "Just War Theory" (6 marks) Analyse a recent or historical military conflict using Just War Theory (12 marks).

For Aquinas there are 5 conditions for a just war: (1) the conflict must be just e.g. to save the lives of civilians (2) the conflict must be declared by a legitiamte authority. e.g. a government (3) ther...

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