Essays 271 - 300
steeled and a heart trans- formed into brass, so as to bear the weight of such responsibility" (Nietzsche, p.129). One can see tha...
human understanding. He saw the concept as being equated with something that exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transce...
like the male philosophers of the day. She was the exception. While by and large, the people saw women as having a subservient pla...
the street ... must and will reflect our personal moral standards" (Reavley, 2001). Those moral standards, Reavley implies, must ...
obviously see elements of the man who wrote the story, for Kafka is often considered to be an individual who deeply examined his w...
In five pages this paper examines the Bourdieu and Kant philosophical views represented in these texts by Barker and Du Maurier. ...
commandment "thou shalt not kill", for example, are forced to re-examine their views in the light of military service in wartime, ...
of science there are two branches which are epistemology and metaphysics (Honderich, 1995). Science makes up an important part of ...
the standards movement. This "default" philosophy emerges from a behaviorist, positivists background that places great emphasis...
She says: "The question should not be: Do we have something in common-reason, self-consciousness, a soul-with other animals? (With...
culpable. It is true that many other nations, such as France, opposed the war effort in Iraq. Did the U.S. overstep its bounds? Wh...
the role it plays, in the cognitive system of which it is a part (Levin, 2004). Functionalism is an opinion about the nature of m...
was that all humans are born with an inherent worth which he labeled human dignity (Mazur, 1993). He further felt that human dign...
In five pages this paper discusses the grounds for believing in God's existence by discussing philosophical interpretations of fou...
In nine pages this paper provides an analysis of Hegel's philosophical masterwork in a consideration of its purpose and structure....
In six pages this paper discusses the strengths and weaknesses of various philosophical theories with the utilitarianism of John S...
In five pages this paper considers parental rights from philosophical and ethical vantage points. Four sources are cited in the b...
expected to develop some form of cancer "or another rapidly debilitating condition and well be dead within a year of getting the d...
governmental structures on both sides of the Iron Curtain, believed that the downfall of communism was inevitable. Consider, for ...
and the natural rights that inherently accompany such ownership. Within the realm of life exists inherent elements to ones existe...
then, where does one go? Which way is correct? Going back to ancient times, Aristotle had a lot to say about virtue. In the Nicoma...
In six pages this paper considers historical materialism according to Engels and Marx in this philosophical overview. Eight sourc...
This paper discusses the societal impacts of homosexuality according to the philosophical perspectives of John Stuart Mill and Imm...
the topic of education. He says, "Next, said I, compare our nature in respect of education and its lack to such an experience as t...
it will occur; which leads to the Conclusion: "no action is free" (Cahn, 1971, 39). Hard determinism argues that these two premi...
in order to establish a firm foundation of understanding in his or her life. In knowledge there is inherent value and wealth; dwe...
what he actually did. At the same time, it is not as if this philosopher threw out the basic tenets of reasoning. He did find it n...
who will eventually hold office and decide what to pursue in respect to issues like abortion, stem cell research and capital punis...
human being for a short span of time. The cave allegory is quite well known and has been used by many to interpret Platos philosop...
achieve this level of human excellence by adhering to the fourteen axioms acts of Nicomachean Ethics, which included gentility, ho...