SSCI 1470U Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ultimate Galactus Trilogy, Natural Law, Scientific Method
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Is knowledge always a good thing: how do we answer a question like this, one of the axioms we live with is knowledge is power , on the other hand. Bertrand russell"s wisdom of despair: don"t expect more from the universe than ultimate extinction. If he is correct, whether it is good to know that or not. The philosophers vs the sophists: war for the mind . Most historians argue that there is an ongoing struggle for the mind throughout the past 2500 years. Because humanity decides what matters and what doesn"t. Humans create knowledge: georgias of leontini: nothing exists . Lived to 108 according to a legend. Nothing exists, and even if something exists then we wouldn"t be able to understand it, if we could understand it we wouldn"t be able to communicate it to others. We are the ones who create, give names to things: critias of athens: the gods are human creations .
