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greedy for gain" (Machiavelli 56). Men, Machiavelli argued, were by nature more interested in their own good than in achieving th...
In six pages this position paper discusses ways to remove the religious frame around sexual morality so that human morality is the...
In nine pages this paper discusses how Rene Descartes philosophically attempted to prove God exists in his Meditations on First Ph...
In five pages both philosophical arguments regarding moral judgment are compared along with a consideration of why each would disa...
considerable empirical consideration but one which has yet to be either proved or refuted. Such as statement, therefore is not a ...
Hume presented his arguments in a pair of treatises that are still considered required reading for any student of Western philosop...
other words, lets say that someone came along and said that the sky was falling and that it was a miracle! Basically what Hume is...
guessing his parents. An eight year old may argue that it is proper for him to go to a particular event by himself, but his parent...
In six pages this paper discusses how Hume critiques man's knowledge regarding causal relationships which is based on the philosop...
Human Understanding, by David Hume (2001), may be helpful. In his classic volume, Hume demonstrates that people know the causes...
social order that refuses to acknowledge the elements of good and bad. Correspondingly, Fontana (2003) points out how the good "a...
This research paper discusses the positions espoused by classical economists Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus and David Ricardo pertaini...
conclusion that "a being than which none greater can be conceived can be conceived to be greater than it is," which is "absurd" (A...
after it was moved to the Piazza della Signoria. The reason this particular point is so greatly argued is because of the glaring ...
able to determine their own choices, rather than be automatically programmed for response. The student might surmise that o...
derives from the fact that it seems as if it had a familiar or conventional meaning. One might be tempted to try a nonliteral int...
will be examined and compared and contrasted. Paine insisted, in his "Common Sense" that "Securing freedom and property to all men...
Dominican Order)," dedicating his life to following his Orders commitment to both scholarship and ministry (Honderich, et al 43). ...
truth that transcends the traditional means of understanding or knowing. For Aquinas, reason does have limitations. He writes: "N...
Christ. The polytheistic society of ancient Greece was already moving toward belief in a single god by the time of Plato and his ...
The Dominicans were like the Franciscans in that they were a mendicant order wherein the friars "vowed to live faithfully in pover...
virtue, i.e., justice, but it is also included under Aquinas discussion of love, specifically under love of ones neighbor, for Go...
if Charity is "something created in the soul" (Aquinas 17). Without background knowledge on this debate, his points become somewha...
principle being expressed is that everything which causes change, or gives rise to existence, must be the result of some predecess...
like the male philosophers of the day. She was the exception. While by and large, the people saw women as having a subservient pla...
born a Jew and lived under the Jewish law and system (Galatians 4:4). * Jesus life was characterized by service and humility (Phil...
human nature is bound by the weakness of mans character? In short, Platos (1979) freed prisoner is himself, the cave reflects the...
be the first cause (Philosophy Online, n.d.). 3. Everything that exists at one time did not and may not at some time in the future...
belief at the time (The Radical Academy, 2004). God gives this power to the people as a whole, not to individuals (The Radical Aca...
In ten pages this tutorial paper imagines a lively dialogue between political philosophers including St. Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle...