Essays 601 - 630
Many contend that while God is all good, man has free will and brings the suffering on himself. At the same time, animals cannot r...
there is continuity through time in terms of personal identity and her doubt about her own continuing identity is contradicted by...
one looks at a variety of lifetimes via reincarnation, its purpose explained by knowledge. In other words, people are born and liv...
tendencies within society and the fact that people are far too concerned with their own well being to fend for those who cannot fe...
and Cavaliers differ somewhat from those that are associated with Europe. What we most often remember in America is the differenc...
Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...
Theravada Buddhism was the original form, which was based on lengthy meditation and required...
was changing in terms of philosophy. John Lockes The Second Treatise of Civil Government is rather compelling and in fact, free ch...
personal desire to do so, rather than depending upon automatic reaction or stimulation. "The skeptic, therefore, had better keep ...
not merely things to be used to reach ones goal, but are sentient beings with worth beyond measure. The golden rule may be interp...
the idea that there are reasons for implementing law beyond the idea of just maintaining law and order. Other supporters of positi...
Moltmann's ideas are used to incite discussion on time and space issues in this paper of fourteen pages with time defined and the ...
is anguish all the time, but there is also a sense of joy at the realization that one is inextricably bound with another. This sen...
to attain a better existence for itself, it has inadvertently caused a domino effect when it comes to such personal pursuits. It ...
Brian Vickers portrays Plato as an intellectual Odysseus, stealthily stealing the rhetorical arsenal of the sophists and using it ...
He didnt believe that going to church necessarily related to a relationship with God. He felt that church almost got in the way o...
the buying and selling of human beings. How would a Kantian analyze the ethics of slavery? How might a utilitarian, a social con...
well-being but our physical well-being also. For instance, Terry (54) tells us that music has been widely recommended as a techni...
himself, without mischief reaching at least to his near connexions, and often far beyond them"(Mills,9). John Stuart Mill seemed ...
are the natural order of things. Are there coincidences, or do no coincidences exist? Much again, has to do with how a person perc...
and the imagination. However, he states that gaining an idea of self from the presentation given by the senses initially cannot re...
have anticipated the degradation that would take place toward the trees, grass and animals, all of whom are just as integral to th...
strive for bigger and better opportunities, to reach beyond what has become comfortable and consistent in order to attain that whi...
lie to the police, and fabricate "evidence," in order to protect her daughter from possible harm? Or, should she allow her daughte...
II. Facts of the Case The case in question was presented to Lord Justice Ward, Lord Justice Brooke and Lord Justice Robert Wal...
being" (Burnham, 2001). In order for our universe to have taken on the form that it has, it has been necessary, according t...
(Amin, 1997; p. 8). In many ways we experience, and have experienced, growth of cultures through diversity, which provides us ...
simple to Descartes, so simple it needs no argument. He basically says that as long as one is thinking, one exists. To Descartes, ...
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...
does not love and who is better than twenty years older than her. Then, his son goes into the future son-in-laws bank and manages ...