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Scientific Method Philosophy

in earlier times it was regarded only as the poor relation of quantitative research that nearly always was less reliable and far l...

Civil Disobedience and Philosophy

permission. Abraham Lincoln promoted the Platonic view in his Gettysburg Address in saying that the government should be "of the ...

19th and 20th Century Philosophies of John Dewey, Bertrand Russell, and Richard Rorty

Each criticized the foundationalist approach advocated by Russell. Rorty (1989, 87), for example, insisted:...

US Modern Culture and the Pragmatic Philosophy of John Dewey

learning, which was the current philosophy of his day (American Philosopher John Dewey). Since the inception of Deweys e...

Examining Debates Among Competing Philosophies

We can better understand this by invoking a comparison. A generalist would demand sameness in terms of how something functions ca...

Philosophy, Ethics, and 'Doing the Right Thing'

agree with Aristotles ideas, and see morality as a living concept, and something that should not be tampered with. What might Aris...

Justice, Philosophy, and Ethics of Health Care Rationing

dilemma of a single woman who is part of what the politicians and social scientists refer to as a member of the "working poor" soc...

Goodness and Philosophy

of subjective satisfaction (Seifert, 2003). Moral goodness just is. One looks at a baby or a puppy and thinks that these living th...

Happiness as Viewed by the Philosophy of Aristotle

In five pages Aristotle's concept of happiness with an emphasis upon a life of contemplation is discussed. Five sources are cited...

'Unexamined Life' Philosophy of Socrates

In six pages this paper analyzes the contention of Socrates that an 'unexamined life is not worth living' as this view is represen...

Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas on Religion and Philosophy

truth that transcends the traditional means of understanding or knowing. For Aquinas, reason does have limitations. He writes: "N...

Letter to the Editor and Utilitarian Philosophy

In two pages this paper is structured as a letter to the editor and considers capital punishment form a utilitarian philosophical ...

Meditations on the First Philosophy by Rene Descartes and 'Freeing the Mind'

In five pages this paper examines the French philosopher's text as it explains his approaches to recognizing knowledge that is 'tr...

Mary Follett and Deming's Philosophies of Management

In ten pages this paper examines these two management theorists in a comparative analysis of philosophical differences and similar...

Philosophy and Doubt of Rene Descartes

In five pages this paper discusses how doubt and reality is understood by philosopher Rene Descartes with his argument flaws also ...

Searle's Disagreement with the Mind Philosophy of Rene Descartes

In six pages Descartes' arguments regarding reality and existence as revealed in Meditations are examined along with Searle's obje...

American Poverty and Philosophy

The poor in America are considered in a paper consisting of five pages in which various ethical philosophical perspectives includi...

Philosophy of Science Questions

In ten pages this paper answers 3 questions on artificial intelligence and cognitive behavior, subject and object approaches, and ...

Philosophy Questions on John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant

In six pages 7 student posed questions regarding how these philosophers interpret morality and ethics are answered. Four sources ...

Philosophy of Martin Heidegger and Transcendence

In five pages the transcendence theory of Martin Heidegger is discussed and compared with those of Friedrich Nietzsche. Four sour...

Action and Movement in the Philosophies of Charles Darwin

which he writes that he was able to formulate only after his extensive observations that led to The Origin of Species. He came to...

Training Philosophies According to Donald L. Kirkpatrick

In five pages training programs of organizations are examined as they relate to Donald L. Kirkpatrick's work in an examination of ...

Materialism, Hylemorphism, and Philosophy

The views of Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle are examined in this consideration of the preference for hylemorphism over materialism i...

Arguments in Philosophy

In five pages William Paley's teleological argument, St. Anselm's ontological argument, and St. Thomas Aquinas' cosmological argum...

Standards to Live Up to Based Upon Philosophies and Theories

In five pages this paper discusses how human standards can be lived up to in a consideration of the Old Testament's unrighteousnes...

Meditations on First Philosophy and the Logic of Rene Descartes

In five pages this essay discusses Descartes' reality in terms of deconstruction and reconstruction. There are no other sources l...

Three Questions of Philosophy

This 7 page paper explores three different philosophical concents: the design theory, Kant's theories of knowledge and Plato's ide...

Wondering About the World in Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes

In five pages the sense of wonder Descartes conjures in his Third Meditation regarding the existence of God is examined. There ar...

Justice as Viewed by the Philosophies of Aristotle and Plato

and the things within it as mere shadows or reflections of a separate world of independently existing, eternal, and unchanging ent...

Knowledge and the Philosophies of Immanuel Kant, David Hume, Baruch Spinoza, and Rene Descartes

In six pages this paper examines how knowledge theories are philosophically conceptualized by Kant, Hume, Spinoza, and Descartes. ...