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    are learned much like anything else, through interaction with the people closest to them. Edwin Sutherland’s theory of differential association states that learning of deviant behavior takes part in a person’s most intimate groups. Therefore drug use and abuse is primarily an outcome of the people you surround yourself with. Furthermore, once a part of this deviant world, labeling theory makes the cycle

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    This essay consists of information concerning substance dependence. It outlines what substance dependence is all about, which includes its symptoms, a theory to explain the phenomena and the South African perspective of the disorder. Substance Dependence is a behavioral and physiological phenomenon which happens after a person has been practicing substance use over a long period of time and the individual does this repeatedly (Austin, Botha, Du Plessis, Du Plessis, Jordaan, Lake, Moletsane, Nel

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    this depiction to showcase that similarly to light, bodies indeed are extended yet in essence indivisible. Henry More premise behind his constructed points were that he was a dualist, however argued that all substances are extended. Yet, how did he differ between immaterial and material substances

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    What can we know about the mind? Substance dualism Substance dualism believe that there are two kinds of substance, mental and material. The human mind is independent to the physical brain, so the mind can continue even when the brain stops. This is very important to many philosophers, as Plato believed our souls would return to the realm of the Forms after our bodies died. Plato’s dualism Plato likens the body to a prison in which the soul (the mind, including intellect) is confined, and whilst

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    ARISTOTLE ON DISTINCTION BETWEEN SUBSTANCE AND MATTER INTRODUCTION Aristotle was both a political thinker and a philosopher. So, we can see their effects on his writings. Moreover, he was hugely influenced by his great teacher Plato, who was in turn a disciple of the great thinker Socrates. He discussed about Substance and Matter in his book ‘Metaphysics’ mainly, apart from discussing them in his book ‘Ethics’. Generally, substance and matter are understood to be the same thing. But

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    The Question of Being Martin Heidegger attempts to answer the “question of Being” by appealing to the terminology and methodology of Dasein, most commonly defined as existence. Dasein is not simply any kind of existence, however, but an existence that is unique from all other existences in that it asks the question of existence while existing in the existence itself. In other words, one must first understand Dasein in order to understand Being because Dasein is a kind of being that is concerned

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    talks about the kinds of souls possessed by different living things such as plants, animals and, beings. Aristotle then goes on describing the substance that makes up the soul, the first is matter which is not this in its own right, the second is form which makes matter this and the third form is the compound of matter and form. Every living body is a substance and the soul is the actuality of the body. The soul

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    primary substance is. Instead of the primary substance being the individual, a change is seen in Metaphysics VII that primary substance is now the form. It is my intention to clearly account for the reasoning that Aristotle had for making this change as he continued to contemplate what primary substance of a thing is. When the reader is finished, they will be able to agree that having form as primary substance makes perfect sense and everything else just falls short of what primary substance needs

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    Psychological Theory and Substance Use Name Institution Psychological Theory and Substance Use The psychological theory attributes substance use to mental disorders that include reduced behavioral practices, cognitive difficulties, and mood disturbances. Behaviorist approach considers substance use as a learned behavior, taken in two stages acquisition and maintenance. Acquisition explains the way in which a person takes up the substance use behavior. An acquisition is mainly through an association

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    Substance dualism is the two separate substances in philosophy that exist, known as the mental and physical. The concept is that physical things do not have thought and mental things have thought but do not contain anything in the physical world. Descartes’s version gives rise to the interaction problem by stating, “we must know that the soul is really joined to the whole body, and that we cannot, properly speaking say that it exists in any one of its parts to the exclusion of the others…” (pg 330)

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