Essays 1951 - 1980
In five pages Aristotle's concept of happiness with an emphasis upon a life of contemplation is discussed. Five sources are cited...
agree with Aristotles ideas, and see morality as a living concept, and something that should not be tampered with. What might Aris...
concerned with humanitarian and developmental issues. In other words, there is an altruistic component that seems to indicate a ge...
We can better understand this by invoking a comparison. A generalist would demand sameness in terms of how something functions ca...
learning, which was the current philosophy of his day (American Philosopher John Dewey). Since the inception of Deweys e...
Another loss of life associated with war is the loss of wildlife and the destruction of nature. War creates battlefields that rese...
In six pages this paper analyzes the contention of Socrates that an 'unexamined life is not worth living' as this view is represen...
must recognize that the consciousness (cit) is a separate phenomena which is present regardless of the presence or absence of stim...
it to be banned for more than three decades. Riefenstahl, who was commissioned by Hitler to cover the events, captured such power...
Crises arise that usher in change, systems achieve equilibrium for a time and then begin to change again, leading to another round...
In five pages a case study involving whether or not to have a baby or have an abortion is examined in an application of the theori...
in earlier times it was regarded only as the poor relation of quantitative research that nearly always was less reliable and far l...
acknowledging it as the source from which the mind receives sensory information. However, Kant argued that the mind cannot know th...
In five pages this essay discusses Mill's essay 'On Liberty' in a consideration of panhandling prohibition ordinances and freedom ...
dominated society. Furthermore, Miller and Swift point out that while words that are considered "masculine" traits describe admira...
the world, but only derive essence later. In other words, a human is nothing to start with, and the essence of the person comes fr...
highest truth and certainty I have learned either from the senses or through the senses" (Descartes 29). But he is quick to note ...
manner in order to attain end-E" (Honderich, 1995, p. 436). For example, a person might resolve to pay a bill as soon as it is rec...
of veracity. This is because each segment of humanity is its own little universe and what is held to be truth in one section of th...
world, one would find the "ideal tree of which all trees which we see are copies, the ideal house and ideas of all other objects i...
(ICA), Shammas was literally forced to view some "nature" while in the Southwest, which resulted in what sounds like a miserable t...
there are certainly differences between the two disciplines and this creates a source of conflict. That said, while Confucianism ...
contributions to ethical and social theory" (Anonymous John Stuart Mill 1806-1873, 2002; MILL.HTM). In his work "Principles of ...
of the same) is "reason" rather than the self-conscious "I." One may then extend the concept from ethical ideas to morality, whic...
Camus relates the substance of the Greek myth and how Sisyphus was condemned to endlessly roll a rock up a hill in the underworld,...
Power is behind all that we perceive, then the Higher Power would be a deceitful one. Descartes arrives at this conclusion becaus...
the old mans money to the poor. While he fears being found out, when he is, the people not only forgive him, but elect him their n...
constructed and the meaning made perfectly clear so that all understand what types of behavior will be tolerated and which will no...
for example, would exist even if there were no human beings there to see it, but not that colour was an independent spiritual form...
in his own personal progress at the cost of everything else. He was wholly supportive of the scientific community during the Enli...