Essays 1981 - 2010
Quran establishes a set of beliefs and is the basis of the religion (Esposito). Hinduism is a bit more flexible. It "is best regar...
In five pages this paper examines a Supreme Personal Being's role in the religious experiences with beliefs addressed in the philo...
In six pages this paper denotes similarities and differences in the philosophies of Plato and Hume regarding God, morality, and hu...
In six pages the philosophies of these individuals from the preSocratic era are contrasted and compared. Three sources are cited ...
In six pages this paper presents a fictional dialogue on philosophy between two people with one arguing in favor of sensual proof ...
In six pages this research paper considers how the death concept was applied to the scheme of life through the classical Greek phi...
In six pages virtue as defined by the philosophies of Aristotle and Plato and their continuity are examined. There are 5 sources ...
In six pages the arguments of city vs. state, the individual, and soul and spirit that are raised in Hegel's Introduction to the P...
The ancient Greek arche concept is compared with Plato's soul concept in an argument that contends Plato's conflict resolution of ...
form of flattery. Socrates voices such strong opposition to the type of oration he attributes to men like Gorgias because knowl...
Hylemorphism's preference over materialism in philosophy is examined from the metaphysical perspectives of Thomas Aquinas and Aris...
if it is taken outside of the context of societal situations. For Nozick, justice is more clearly a function of societal roles a...
In six pages Descartes' knowledge philosophy is examined in terms of dreams and reality as it pertains to the principles he outlin...
In five pages this research paper discusses Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy in terms of deductive reasoning and an eval...
In a paper consisting of five pages Rene Descartes' life, philosophy particularly Cartesian Dualism, and whether or not it is curr...
In four pages this paper examines how Hobbes viewed man's nature in a contrast with St. Augustine's philosophy. Three sources are...
In five pages this paper examines how moral certainty is attacked by the existentialist philosophy of Jean Paul Sartre. Two sourc...
In eight pages this paper discusses whether or not the government is justified in legally regulating marijuana use according to th...
have been utilized in both historical and contemporary politics: (a) The use of diplomacy and the formation of coalitions; (b) Vio...
The concept of health also has undergone change over the years. It formerly referred to absence of disease, but now it generally ...
seeking it have been unable to achieve it on their own. This is high praise and noble purpose for a structure that Madison called...
between knowing a subject and that object of thought and he presents this as an artificial distinction in that the object that one...
In five pages the differences and similarities between the philosophies of Leo Strauss and Martin Heidegger are analyzed. Two sou...
In nine pages this paper discusses how a philosophy class would teach phenomenology and existentialist theories by answering quest...
In six pages this research paper examines Karl Marx's theories in a consideration of such concepts as the working class struggle, ...
In five pages this paper examines change as conceptualized by Charles Darwin in Descent of Man and by Karl Marx in The Poverty of ...
In four pages this paper discusses the rationale, argument, and philosophy of the theories presented by John Stuart Mill in 'On Li...
In nine pages legal philosophy is examined within the context of Benjamin Cardozo's book which was first published in 1924. Three...
In nine pages this research paper compares these two works in terms of how they represent free will and determinism philosophies. ...
most exciting part of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance for it is that journey that has kept the book popular over twenty ...