Essays 541 - 570
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...
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...
life fulfillment and that a disabled individual should be allowed to die because their quality of life will not allow them to find...
it, these are all abstractions on the concept of the apple in the first place. These notions could not be made without the immedi...
childhood, during his early life, Socrates was a sculptor, following in the footsteps of his father, Sophroniscus (Wikpedia, 2003)...
conditions and development; contrarily, humanity may also perceive the world as a more direct understanding based upon their spiri...
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...
certainty. I might as well take a shower. I hurried, in an effort to at least reduce the amount of time I would walk into the door...
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...
Introduction The issues surrounding abortion are complex to say the least. People are polarized on the issue...
Hume presented his arguments in a pair of treatises that are still considered required reading for any student of Western philosop...
morning and be blown up on a bus or go to a discotheque and be killed in an explosion. These are not unusual scenarios there. For ...
the universe, in which human beings are pictured a being at the top of the pyramid to one that sees life as an expanding circle th...
interprets the ideal of freedom and to what extent they live in their own psychological prisons. Social freedom means that one wil...
first of all, wherever friendship or community flourishes, justice doesnt - and when this fades, justice becomes more important. S...
writer/tutor reviews Staels text in chronological order, the student researching this topic may wish to contrast and compare the ...
natures regiment. As such, familiarity does not lend itself to unaccountability or being troublesome to understand. Why, then, w...
humans should be moral we often think of the works of those major philosophers who adamantly supported morality. We look to great...
the company as well as its profitability is important to him. Ellis will likely want to go for the deal but the situation does get...
new. The result was the death of the brand, all ferries were gradually changed to P&O ferries, the name of the parent company, but...
must recognize that the consciousness (cit) is a separate phenomena which is present regardless of the presence or absence of stim...
Essentially, the allegory likens those who remain unaware of forms to prisoners chained in a cave, and they cannot turn their head...
This is found in Descartes work Meditations and is referred to as substance dualism, which is also known as Cartesian interactioni...
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...