Essays 421 - 450
without her permission, some wonder why others make a big deal about domain names that are only similar to a particular company na...
In nineteen pages this paper discusses the philosophical education of teenager Sophie Amundsen in Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder'...
In five pages this research paper considers Hume's philosophical text in an overview of its structure and main points. Six source...
In six pages this research paper contrasts and compares these men's philosophical perspectives on God's existence. Four sources a...
In five pages this paper examines Kant's philosophical considerations of religion from a moral perspective. Five sources are cite...
This paper examines the true meaning of the very vague word, good. The author points out that the word has two separate and unique...
education, Aquinas was exposed to the work of the ancient Greek philosophers. Throughout his writing , Aquinas worked out a relati...
the only way to arrive at this point, he seems to be saying, is to carefully examine anything that one believes with the yardstick...
doubt and thought. If he thinks, then he exists: at least, his mind exists, since what he knows of his body is dependent, again, o...
the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...
Essentially, the allegory likens those who remain unaware of forms to prisoners chained in a cave, and they cannot turn their head...
consider that if an entity, such as a nation, is to grow and become prosperous there will be enemies and as such perhaps war is es...
avoids trying to force the same concept of right and wrong upon all of the worlds societies, objectivism believes there is conside...
well as] hard physical work and unhealthy lifestyle" and most donors are sent home after only five days (Tomiuc, 2003). While the ...
defines pornography, which is that they do not know what it is, but they know it when they see it (11). Similarly, it is not out o...
not for ones performance, but for his or her actions which may be attributable to a sense of duty (Honderich 323). To some, this m...
must recognize that the consciousness (cit) is a separate phenomena which is present regardless of the presence or absence of stim...
We can better understand this by invoking a comparison. A generalist would demand sameness in terms of how something functions ca...
charges of impiety and corruption of youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens ("Socrates," 2003). While this ph...
This is found in Descartes work Meditations and is referred to as substance dualism, which is also known as Cartesian interactioni...
our understanding of language, democracy, the individual (self), within both the public and private spheres. Rorty notes, for exa...
that she was much more responsive and seemed to be improving. Still not fully conscious, at times she would be able to "communica...
to treat everyone equally which may mean a policy of affirmative action. One has to recognize race, and then level the playing fie...
while in society today, the concept is well accepted, Marx prompts one to question the ethics of capitalism. When all is said and ...
is a case for communism at least for the lower classes. The supporting premises for that conclusion have already been noted and ge...
with happiness, but the instant gratification achieved through immoral pleasure is not as good. It goes beyond that. Does one give...
considerable empirical consideration but one which has yet to be either proved or refuted. Such as statement, therefore is not a ...
In six pages the philosophical and mathematical theories of Rene Descartes are discussed. Four sources are cited in the bibliogra...
as a bridge so that people with different understandings can nevertheless come to understand and appreciate one anothers views. ...
view is that the appetite for wisdom is the most noble of the possible forces that can drive humanity, and as such, the one which ...