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Art and life in ancient Egypt
History & The Arts

Art and life in ancient Egypt

...determined badly, and so did not consist of the content which is absolute in itself ... Only in the highest art are Idea and presentation truly in conformity with one another, in the sense that the shape given to the Idea is in itself the absolutely true shape, because the content of the Idea which that shape expresses is itself the true and genuine content. (pp. 73–5)...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
Digital thinking tools for better decision making Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Digital thinking tools for better decision making

...determine what gets through our philtres. And we need you to give us some control so that we can decide what gets through and what doesn't, because I think we really need the internet to be that thing that we all dreamed of it being. We need it to connect us all together. We need it to introduce us to new ideas and new people and different perspectives. And it's not going...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The moral equality of combatants
History & The Arts

The moral equality of combatants

...determine its justice. Note that the argument applies equally to just and unjust combatants. The epistemological argument supports the moral equality of combatants. Both sides are justified in deferring to their leaders and so are justified in fighting if they are ordered to do so. If both are justified in fighting, then they are morally equal. McMahan makes two replies...
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs
Historical perspectives on race
History & The Arts

Historical perspectives on race

...determined by physical skin colour, but would be defined by state officials intent on preserving established systems of power based on white supremacy...Course introduction: 2.4 What are the challenges we face in describing ‘race’ in our study of the past? - As discussed earlier, race is something that is not fixed in meaning, and so it can be challenging to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Leo Tolstoy on King Lear
History & The Arts

Leo Tolstoy on King Lear

...determines to ruin Edgar, and to usurp his place. For this purpose, he forges a letter to himself as from Edgar, in which the latter expresses a desire to murder his father. Awaiting his father's approach, Edmund, as if against his will, shows him this letter, and the father immediately believes that his son Edgar, whom he tenderly loves, desires to kill him. The father...
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Freeing people caught between life and death
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freeing people caught between life and death

...determine which of these patients were in an unconscious coma, which were conscious and which were somewhere in between? That year, he had moved to the Medical Research Council’s Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge, where researchers used various scanning techniques. One, positron emission tomography (PET), highlights different metabolic processes in the...
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Teaching secondary science
Education & Development

Teaching secondary science

...determines the time period, they may disregard the evidence that disproves this and simply believe they did the experiment wrongly. Reflection point How would you respond to the incidents given above? How might a teacher more focused on supporting students’ understanding of the nature of science respond to these incidents? Common approaches to the unexpected results...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Emotion: an introductory picture
History & The Arts

Emotion: an introductory picture

...determine how we think and talk about emotions. Some philosophers refer to this broader set of beliefs and assumptions as our ‘conception’ of emotion (Johnston 1987, p. 60–1). In what follows, I shall use the term ‘conceptual question’ rather loosely to refer both to questions about concepts and to questions about conceptions. What kinds of question might a...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs