Essays 301 - 330
is real? Again, the Cartesian Cogito is something that resolves the problem for some. Still, this is a problem that many philosoph...
ideas. As we shall soon see, through these speeches Plato seems to have reasoned out how it is that mankind make their way from th...
of these seemingly paradoxical perspectives on the nature of society and the role of the individual in society. Plato appears to ...
However, we can also argue that the proof f this truth made no difference to whether the belief was true, being true even before i...
What comes out of a courtroom is not necessarily truth, but which side argues best. The Sophists prided themselves on the use of p...
2002) . Rene Descartes on the other hand delved into the idea of immediate conscious thinking (2002). Locke viewed identity as be...
the time, today people are faced with decisions and can decide to be honest or face dire consequences. Journalists today sometimes...
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...
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...
Essentially, the allegory likens those who remain unaware of forms to prisoners chained in a cave, and they cannot turn their head...
must recognize that the consciousness (cit) is a separate phenomena which is present regardless of the presence or absence of stim...
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...
life fulfillment and that a disabled individual should be allowed to die because their quality of life will not allow them to find...
conditions and development; contrarily, humanity may also perceive the world as a more direct understanding based upon their spiri...
of the world (1993). Yet, one can see this in action in smaller ways. Another way to look at the world is through the model called...
childhood, during his early life, Socrates was a sculptor, following in the footsteps of his father, Sophroniscus (Wikpedia, 2003)...
Hume presented his arguments in a pair of treatises that are still considered required reading for any student of Western philosop...
contradictory, which is why he is so controversial. One can take the meaning of Mills writings to suggest that individuality rules...
also be allowed to have their own private property. In Aristotles belief, man is inherently born sinful. Because of this ...
who could argue with that idea? Of course, capital punishment is an ongoing debate and one that has been around for centuries. Als...
course of action is often jumbled. Is the patient cognizant enough to make the correct choices? Many issues come into play when a...
it, these are all abstractions on the concept of the apple in the first place. These notions could not be made without the immedi...
horrible situations such as one that would deem them a "vegetable" do have some thinking capacity perhaps. Yet, is a disembodied m...
In five pages this paper considers the attributes of JFK in order to make a determination if he was more teacher or leader with sp...
This paper considers the nature of miracles from the philosophical perspectives of David Hume in 5 pages. Four sources are cited ...