Essays 2191 - 2220
for example, would exist even if there were no human beings there to see it, but not that colour was an independent spiritual form...
in his own personal progress at the cost of everything else. He was wholly supportive of the scientific community during the Enli...
highest truth and certainty I have learned either from the senses or through the senses" (Descartes 29). But he is quick to note ...
the world, but only derive essence later. In other words, a human is nothing to start with, and the essence of the person comes fr...
manner in order to attain end-E" (Honderich, 1995, p. 436). For example, a person might resolve to pay a bill as soon as it is rec...
of veracity. This is because each segment of humanity is its own little universe and what is held to be truth in one section of th...
world, one would find the "ideal tree of which all trees which we see are copies, the ideal house and ideas of all other objects i...
Crises arise that usher in change, systems achieve equilibrium for a time and then begin to change again, leading to another round...
In five pages a case study involving whether or not to have a baby or have an abortion is examined in an application of the theori...
in earlier times it was regarded only as the poor relation of quantitative research that nearly always was less reliable and far l...
acknowledging it as the source from which the mind receives sensory information. However, Kant argued that the mind cannot know th...
In two pages this paper is structured as a letter to the editor and considers capital punishment form a utilitarian philosophical ...
In ten pages this paper examines these two management theorists in a comparative analysis of philosophical differences and similar...
In five pages this paper discusses how doubt and reality is understood by philosopher Rene Descartes with his argument flaws also ...
In six pages Descartes' arguments regarding reality and existence as revealed in Meditations are examined along with Searle's obje...
In five pages this paper examines the French philosopher's text as it explains his approaches to recognizing knowledge that is 'tr...
In five pages training programs of organizations are examined as they relate to Donald L. Kirkpatrick's work in an examination of ...
In five pages the transcendence theory of Martin Heidegger is discussed and compared with those of Friedrich Nietzsche. Four sour...
which he writes that he was able to formulate only after his extensive observations that led to The Origin of Species. He came to...
In five pages William Paley's teleological argument, St. Anselm's ontological argument, and St. Thomas Aquinas' cosmological argum...
The views of Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle are examined in this consideration of the preference for hylemorphism over materialism i...
In five pages this paper examines pessimism and whether or not optimism exists in this philosophical consideration of Voltaire, Sc...
In five pages Descartes' Second Meditation is explored in terms of his analysis of what the perception of melting beeswax would be...
This paper examines the true meaning of the very vague word, good. The author points out that the word has two separate and unique...
Camus relates the substance of the Greek myth and how Sisyphus was condemned to endlessly roll a rock up a hill in the underworld,...
the old mans money to the poor. While he fears being found out, when he is, the people not only forgive him, but elect him their n...
contributions to ethical and social theory" (Anonymous John Stuart Mill 1806-1873, 2002; MILL.HTM). In his work "Principles of ...
of the same) is "reason" rather than the self-conscious "I." One may then extend the concept from ethical ideas to morality, whic...
well-being but our physical well-being also. For instance, Terry (54) tells us that music has been widely recommended as a techni...
Power is behind all that we perceive, then the Higher Power would be a deceitful one. Descartes arrives at this conclusion becaus...