Addiction and Substance has labeled adolescent substance use “American’s #1 public health problem.” (Straussner, 2014). According to Straussner (2014), nearly all adults who meet the medical criteria for substance use disorder (SUD) started experimenting with alcohol and other drugs at some point in their teenage years. Adolescent substance use is an issue because adolescent brains are not fully developed, making teens much more vulnerable to developing an addiction than adults. Adolescent substance abuse
The Impact On Substance Dependence Edward Hall Substance dependence is defined as a dysfunctional pattern of substance use and abuse. This leads to a clinical significant tolerance or distress. People who suffer from substance dependence are incapable to stop or decrease the use of the drug/substance they are taking; therefore they become dependent on whatever substance it is they are doing. Substance dependence is more of a physical dependence as well; signs of tolerance and withdrawal
something which can be moved. Life is the function of something which is able to have life. Life, motion, or quality cannot exist apart from this something which, Aristotle calls this ousia, or primary being. The Greek word ousia is translated as substance. A better translation can be described as fundamental or independent and a primary being. Aristotle calls air, water, and earth, ousia, primary beings because they do not belong to other beings as their attributes, but are independent beings respectively
Descartes' Theory of Substance Dualism Throughout the history of man, philosophers have tried to come up with an explanation of where our minds, or consciousness, came from and how we are able to have a nonphysical characteristic of ourselves. Does our physical brain automatically give us nonphysical characteristics like feelings, thoughts, and desires or is there something else there, the mind, that interacts with our bodies and makes us feel, think, and desire? Also, is the mind the only
tries to solve this dilemma with his theory of an objective reality in a realm different from that which we experience. Aristotle agrees with Socrates except that he believes an object’s true essence cannot exist separated from the object itself. I presume that we can exist with our own identity and inhere to a greater whole simultaneously, however my rationalism does not extend beyond people. Nonetheless, these philosophers all had valid conclusions and their theories compliment each other. 	"War
- There are seven requirements of substance: what, this, separable, individual, definite, underlying subject//substratum, and primary. The requirements are all different ways that a substance can be said to be. The, what, is the form of the substance or signifies a substance. The, what, is what substance is made of. For example a person is made up of: hands, feet, eyes, and ears, but these things do not show who the person is. What, is just the form of substance. The, this, is the essence of a subject
One argument that is made against sports is that they are just meaningless games. This idea can be refuted because sports have underlying meanings to so many different people. Another argument is that the pressure of sports causes a high risk of substance abuse. Those are just a few of the arguments critics of sports make, but there are several more due to the complexity of the debate, although, this also implies that there are many arguments explaining why sports do matter. Those arguments outweigh
In this paper I will be discussing the tripartite (three parts) of the soul that Socrates discussed in chapter 6 of Plato’s Republic, and I will compare and contrast them to that of Aristotle and Anthony Kenny. In Plato’s Republic the three parts of the soul consist of the rational, spirited and, desire. In this dialogue the three parts of the soul go hand and hand with three parts of a just society. The desire or appetite of the soul is what controls our want for the pleasures of life. An example
Toward a Dynamic Conception of ousia This paper is an initial attempt to develop a dynamic conception of being which is not anarchic. It does this by returning to Aristotle in order to begin the process of reinterpreting the meaning of ousia, the concept according to which western ontology has been determined. Such a reinterpretation opens up the possibility of understanding the dynamic nature of ontological identity and the principles according to which this identity is established. The development
in the case of substance dualism, neuroscientists. Descartes’ theory of substance dualism is that the mind and body are separate substances. He defines the mind as a thinking, non-extended thing (Descartes 114) and the body as a non-thinking, extended thing (Descartes 115). Since the two materials described have different properties, they cannot be considered the same substance by Descartes’ reasoning, thus resulting in substance dualism. Despite being initially appealing, this theory is very dissatisfactory
Substance Abuse Several health problems influence the well-being and the health in our community, for instance, substance abuse. Substance abuse has become a serious social and public health issue affecting millions of people in our societies. The health problem affects not only the individuals' health and well-being, but also that of their families, and the community as a whole. Substance abuse has a wide range powerful long and short-term effect on the addicts and those around them. Krasikova,
Descartes ' theory of Substance Dualism against the objection made by Princess Elizabeth. Substance Dualism is theory which states that there are two fundamental substances, mind and body. Princess Elizabeth 's objection against Substance Dualism is based off of her idea of how the mind and body interact in order for mental causation to occur. I defend Descartes 's theory by offering my own objection against Princess Elizabeth 's idea of what causation is. Descartes ' theory of Substance Dualism states
own artifice. Instead, Leibniz's distinction is a thoroughly metaphysical one, having its root in his belief that every natural machine is a corporeal substance, the unity and identity conditions of which derive ultimately from its substantial form. Natural machines are thus true unities, while artificial machines are mere aggregates of substances and are therefore only accidental unities. I briefly explore this connection between Leibniz's distinction between natural and artificial machines and
Arguments of Dualism Dualism is the theory that mind and matter are two distinct things. The main argument for dualism is that facts about the objective external world of particles and fields of force, as revealed by modern physical science, are not facts about how things appear from any particular point of view, whereas facts about subjective experience are precisely about how things are from the point of view of individual conscious subjects. They have to be described in the first person as
are five factors, which can make a difference to the rate of a reaction. *1* The surface of the element *2* Catalyst, the amount of the substance *3* The concentration of the element *4* Temperature, due the heat of the atmosphere *5* Pressure pronounced to the substance When a reaction takes place, the substances used are called reactants and the substances produced are called products. Because the amount of products being produced are increasing the number of reactants are or should be decreasing
responsible for homeostasis. The membrane has a selective permeability which means what moves in and out of the cell is regulated. Amino acids, sugars, oxygen, sodium, and potassium are examples of substances that enter the cell. Waste products and carbon dioxide are removed from the cell. All of these substances cross the membrane in a variety of ways. From diffusion and osmosis, to active transport the traffic through the cell membrane is regulated. Diffusion is the movement of molecules form one area
separation of the mental world and the physical world. In philosophy, it is the theory that the universe is explicable only as a whole composed of two distinct and mutually exclusive factors: the mind and the body. Socrates and Plato are called dualists because they think that mind and body are separate and distinct substances. Mind is conscious and non-spatial and body is spatial but not conscious. While separate, these two substances interact. Both Socrates and Descartes argue that the mind and body are
In William Shakespeare's tragic drama Othello we see a morally depraved character, named Iago. Throughout the play he has a plan to bring down a general named Othello, this plan goes from, what seems like, strength to strength. Yet does it? Is the plan Iago makes believable or even realistic? The plan Iago makes appears to be far too over convenient, the plan changes after certain factors are either added in or taken away from the plotting he is doing. For example when the fight happened between
but Aristotle refused this theory. The form of chicken is eternal, but every chicken “flows,” meaning it can’t live forever. The form chicken is made up of a chicken’s characteristics, such as cackling and laying eggs. Therefore the form can not exist on its own, and can not be separated from any chicken. According to Aristotle, reality consists of separate things that constitute a unity of form and substance, which is what the object is made of. A chicken’s substance, for example, would be its feathers
become more computer-literate, I have noticed some interesting parallels between computer mechanisms and Aquinas’ metaphysics of angelic faculties. The present essay expands on some of the analogies which Aquinas himself, though no proponent of AI theory, might have found interesting. One of the philosophy newsgroups on the Internet is entitled "comp.ai.philosophy." This group features constant variations on questions such as: how close can artificial intelligence (particularly computers) approximate