Essays 1981 - 2010
acknowledging it as the source from which the mind receives sensory information. However, Kant argued that the mind cannot know th...
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...
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...
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...
highest truth and certainty I have learned either from the senses or through the senses" (Descartes 29). But he is quick to note ...
but in those areas where the student was lagging a remediation course was offered in-house for the student. This seems logical, si...
strive for bigger and better opportunities, to reach beyond what has become comfortable and consistent in order to attain that whi...
While Hume appears down to Earth and logical, he is, in a very general sense, a skeptic. He notes that there is a battle between r...
In twenty pages this paper examines Great Britain's post compulsory education from political, cultural, and socioeconomic perspect...
Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...
will a universal law" (Immanuel Kant). In ethics of choice, Kantian philosophy dictates that intention or consequences can ...
not merely things to be used to reach ones goal, but are sentient beings with worth beyond measure. The golden rule may be interp...
corporate, organized around a concept of ultimate reality" (9). The reality conjured by these beliefs, actions and experiences ca...
well-being but our physical well-being also. For instance, Terry (54) tells us that music has been widely recommended as a techni...
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...
Power is behind all that we perceive, then the Higher Power would be a deceitful one. Descartes arrives at this conclusion becaus...
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,...
of that century, the French philosopher, Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) developed his metaphysical theories known as "occasionali...
(Nietzsche, 1974). It does seem to be true that when someone supports old institutions and mainstays they are applauded by the lar...
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...
In five pages William Paley's teleological argument, St. Anselm's ontological argument, and St. Thomas Aquinas' cosmological argum...
The views of Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle are examined in this consideration of the preference for hylemorphism over materialism i...
In five pages training programs of organizations are examined as they relate to Donald L. Kirkpatrick's work in an examination of ...