Essays 601 - 630
speaker is Philo, a religious skeptic (Johnson 266). The discussion is chiefly between Philo and Cleanthes, with occasional remar...
he met his soon to be arch rivals, Bill Hewlett and David Packard. Bill attended MIT part time after a stint at Stanford ( "Agilen...
comparison of the two works, illustrating what one can learn of South Africa through having two different sources of information, ...
youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...
at a blackboard writing words. As soon as he completes the "d" in the last word the tape is over. The running time for the tape 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 structuralist models, researchers often examine the underlying structures which occur beneath the actions or speech of the indi...
couple of cars who happened to be drag racing. This gives the woman a chance to get away. She runs into the city and for some reas...
to the concept of monotheism and from that point on, every Jew born is considered to be "a son of Abraham" (Nyrop). Abraham and h...
that their individual styles of approach are based in part upon significantly different gender perspectives. Like Merchant (1989)...
be a less sure guide than revelation; however, Aquinas did believe it possible to reach certain truths without the aid of revelati...
that his troops have to face, but also the strengths and weaknesses of subordinates, in order to deploy commanders in the most str...
that he was "in haste" to buy it before the owner finished making any more "improvements," i.e. changes that Thoreau implies he hi...
powerful. He presents this attempt through offering many different examinations, talking about the shogun political structure, an...
acknowledging it as the source from which the mind receives sensory information. However, Kant argued that the mind cannot know th...
assented to three kinds of knowledge: intuitive, demonstrative, and sensitive and all are based upon the concept of "ideas" (Kenyo...
amazed that Bostick consented to the search. The United States Supreme Court held that Bostick had the ability to refuse. ...
"humans from destroying themselves in the next millennium" (Ingram,...
top the list. The Catholic Church is often quoted as having said, "Give me a child until he is seven and he will always be Catholi...
truly fulfilled, and in fact he likens this fulfillment to a nearly spiritual ideal. On the other hand, there was...
punishes her by labeling her with the letter "A" and through social ostracism. Thoreaus argument with the state in "Civil Disobe...
that the object of thought is capable of being. Hume understands that, quite simplistically, the soul is simply . . . the soul. ...
a very good life with his mother but then his mother marries and he is sent away to a place called Salem House. It is London board...
of submitting to such solitude seems to be particularly poignant in todays society, where we all live such hectic, fast-paced live...
this is a ludicrous statement because if the sun did not rise, there would be no life as human beings need the sun in order for th...
order to provide more accurate representation of the human body. The advances in knowledge made during these years is evide...
States and among philosophers in general. While this background was largely unnecessary from the perspective of many of the retre...
attitudes and our approaches to society. With this simple illustration of Courtwrights work in mind we present similar ideas found...
was very young, so young in fact that he had only a couple of fleeting memories of him. His mothers life was hard yet she managed...
that their numbers (like those of "our own natives") are dwindling. As this suggests, Ball is not unsympathetic toward the natives...