Assignment: Influential Members Of The Community

Assignment: Influential Members Of The Community
Assignment: Influential Members Of The Community
As you have discovered through this course, nurses are influential members of the community and the political system. Therefore, for the purposes of this assignment you will identify a problem or concern in your community, organization, etc. that has the capacity to be legislated. You will conduct research and state a proposal. Through the legislative process, your proposal for the problem or concern may influence an idea for change into a law.
First, refer to the “How a Bill Becomes a Law” media.
Throughout the centuries, from the Greeks to the present day, people have debated the same questions: What is man [sic]? What is God? How do God and man relate? How does man relate to man? One can become dizzy thinking about the possibilities. Humans have been asking questions for a very long time, and thankfully, that practice is not about to change. People have searched for truth and will continue to do so. Therefore, we should not strive to find absolute answers; rather, we should endeavor to be comfortable with the questioning. Table 3-1 provides an overview of the perspectives of truth through the ages (see also Figures 3-1–4). From the pre- Socratics to the poststructuralists and postmodern thinkers, ways of knowing and finding truth have changed.
Figure 3-1 A portrait of British 17th-century empiricist philosopher John Locke, who believed that truth is based on experience and relating to our experiences.
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Figure 3-2 Rene Descartes, a 17th-century French rationalist philosopher, mathematician, and scientist who believed that all things are knowable by deductive reasoning.
Figure 3-3 Immanuel Kant, an 18th-century Germany idealist philosopher, believed that truth exists only in the mind.
Figure 3-4 John Stuart Mill was a 19th-century British empiricist and positivist philosopher who believed that truth is based on experience and relating to our experiences and that truth is