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Why Thucydides, Marx, and Plato View Democracy as the Worst Form of Government

In five pages this argumentative essay employs these philosophical writings in support of the notion that the worst type of govern...

Theories of Forms According to Aristotle and Plato

In five pages this essay contrasts and compares the views on forms held by Plato as critiqued by Aristotle with references made to...

Philosophers Compared

if it is taken outside of the context of societal situations. For Nozick, justice is more clearly a function of societal roles a...

Virtue as Perceived by Epictetus and Aristotle

In five pages this essay contrasts and compares the views of these ancient philosophers regarding the patience virtue. There are ...

Nietzsche, Kant, and Locke Perspectives on Western Philosophical Causality Since Descartes

In five pages the issue of causality and its nature regarding human existence understanding are examined from the philosophical pe...

Interdisciplinary Perspective on Philosophy

In five pages this research essay examines how the disciplines of computer science, scientific method, psychology, sociology, art,...

Thomas Hobbes' and Jean Paul Sartre's Theories

In about nine pages short essays consider the contradictions that appear in the theories of Sartre and Hobbes. There is no biblio...

On Being and Consciousness by Jean Paul Sartre

In ten pages this essay critiques Sartre's reasoning as it pertains to consciousness and the nature of being. There is no bibliog...

Meditations of Rene Descartes

In six pages this essay examines the preface and each of the Meditations in terms of its primary points, the relationship that exi...

Socrates' Choice to Stay in Prison in Crito by Plato

in violation of the law and acknowledged that he should be punished accordingly. His "apology" was not a request for forgiveness,...

Strepsiades, Socrates, and The Clouds by Aristophanes

on their own account." The disciple shows Strepsiades a globe used for astronomy and a map used for geometry. Strepsiades see...

Eternal Happiness and God

In ten pages free will and God are analyzed in this philosophical essay with a critical examination of theories by Hume, Kierkegaa...

Dreams and Whether or Not They Are Meaningful

Using the concepts of Thomas Aquinas this essay consisting of three pages discusses why dream symbolism is meaningful in terms of ...

The Imprint of Religions on Nations

and their ministers are Rabbis. China, on the other hand, is primarily Buddhist. Is any one religion better than...

Stephen L. Carter's Culture of Disbelief

In six pages this essay provides a summary and analysis of Carter's text. Bibliography includes a full text citation....

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Religion

In a research essay that consists of ten pages a correlation between obsessive religious practices and the psychological malady kn...

Theology and Psychology Integration

of this relationship is further evidenced in the fact that Cambridge University recently created a new academic chair for the stud...

'Righteous' Biblical Noah

In four pages this essay quotes the Holy Bible and the Torah in an assessment of Noah as righteous. Six sources are cited in the ...

Hinduism and Religious Theory

In nine pages this essay examines the quest for meaning and the religious historical theory of Francis Clark in a consideration of...

Comparative Analysis of Oriental Religion and Judaism

In five pages this essay compares the similarities and the differences that exist between these world religions. Seven sources ar...

Baptism of Europe and 5 Pillars of Islam

In three pages this essay discusses how the growth of Christianity and Islam was influenced by Neoplatonism and also considers the...

Overview of the Holy Trinity

like a dove from the sky and remain upon him" (John 1:32). This is specific testimony to the Three Persons, God, who spoke to John...

Writing Style of John McPhee

oranges fascinating is the way in which he describes customs. He does so lyrically, briefly, but in perfect context with the cultu...

Suffering in William Shakespeare's King Lear and the Book of Job

finally restored by God to his previous state of good fortune when he realizes that, as a human being, he is insignificant next to...

Symbolism in William Golding's 'Lord of the Flies'

he is clearly the stable rational order, but by himself he is nothing in the face of the nature of mankind. The Lord of the Fli...

Social Work and the Importance of the Christian Thought

as well as their learning abilities. The Bible teaches people that it is important, and crucial, to care for others and to neve...

Nature and Poetic Views Contrasted

his moment in nature (Wakefield 354). But while the first stanza ends the implied assumption that the poet need not concern hims...

Europe, United States, and Muslims

encounters with North African Muslim immigrants who had come to Detroit (Malik, 2004). A key figure in the Nation of Islam movemen...

Aristotle, Avenue Q, Joe Turner's Come and Gone

Thought is Aristotles third category. McManus (1999) speculates that this category can be associated with what modern critics woul...

Aspects of Cognitive Psychology

strong enough, people will seek and generate information that will help them prepare for a future social setting. They also spend ...