Essays 3271 - 3300
In five pages Aristotle's concept of happiness with an emphasis upon a life of contemplation is discussed. Five sources are cited...
in Modern Thought points to two cataclysmic moments in history that were responsible for altering the contemporary perceptions of ...
of subjective satisfaction (Seifert, 2003). Moral goodness just is. One looks at a baby or a puppy and thinks that these living th...
an emphasis on more practical learning in higher education (Boyce, 2003). Du Bois would focus on the importance of knowledge inclu...
have an otherwise broad range and potentiality; however, these aspects were often squelched by a need for systematic control. ...
the Republic. Take pornography as an example. Plato argued that objectionable ideas can upset the understanding (Johnston). Femini...
the Buddhist worldview and the goal of detaching oneself from the material world and the body. "Thought is an attribute that rea...
class conflict and the role of counter revolutionary forces. Georges Jacques Danton had great significance in the French Re...
a certain set of circumstances, and that would not be acceptable as a moral guide. B) Consider a new law that requires people wit...
people must strive for a knowledge that only comes from being true to ones own choice. According to Plato, men and women both hav...
who waste time believing or fearing that which is untrue could not possibly be calm or contemplative; as such, they could change t...
would come about as a natural consequence of romanticism ("Romanticism," 2005). For example, romantic music inspired nationalist t...
This paper discusses the 'realistic' value of realism in a theoretical comparison with nationalism, Marxism, and liberalism consis...
what one wants, and visualizing it, that one will eventually be free from the gnawing desire. This is true either through attainme...
however, is preliminary, a basic orientation, if you will, before settling down to discussing the books main argument, which conce...
This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...
Rosenzweig began to struggle with his beliefs regarding Judaism as a young adult. He serious...
In this way, Buddhism became accessible to all, and was able to develop the concept of community which...
or sight) was subjected to each individuals standards of judgment. Whereas concrete facts were not changeable or subject to ones i...
that Piaget didnt recognize that children could learn from their environment, however. Indeed, Piagets work reinforced the common...
conclusions. Most logical claims can be refuted. Thus, logic in some way is not much better than perception. At least, one can say...
lived in a society where multifetal pregnancy reduction was a socially acceptable alternative to the numerous fetuses produced by ...
and their duty, and allowing them to share the advantages of education and government with man," which Wollstonecraft indicates wi...
but in those areas where the student was lagging a remediation course was offered in-house for the student. This seems logical, si...
corporate, organized around a concept of ultimate reality" (9). The reality conjured by these beliefs, actions and experiences ca...
strive for bigger and better opportunities, to reach beyond what has become comfortable and consistent in order to attain that whi...
not merely things to be used to reach ones goal, but are sentient beings with worth beyond measure. The golden rule may be interp...
This, he asserted, was mans freedom of the will, in which people are able to determine their own choices, rather than be automatic...
will a universal law" (Immanuel Kant). In ethics of choice, Kantian philosophy dictates that intention or consequences can ...
Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...