Essays 391 - 420
persuasive arguments, Aristotle mentions three techniques: pathos, ethos and logos (What is logos?) "Pathos" (from which we get th...
upon an instructor who cannot handle the task. However, those who are called in to substitute for the AWOL educators provide an e...
system in ancient Greece wherein a woman had a protector (kyrios) or one who watched over them. This was either a brother or their...
(Kemerling, 2002). Lacking professional teacher training, Socrates elected to do some "free-wheeling" by partaking of spirited di...
human understanding. He saw the concept as being equated with something that exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transce...
the standards movement. This "default" philosophy emerges from a behaviorist, positivists background that places great emphasis...
would be no hope of redemption or change. Frankl supports this position by contending that mans search for meaning "is the primar...
in Modern Thought points to two cataclysmic moments in history that were responsible for altering the contemporary perceptions of ...
institution of marriage, and the influence that family structures, including relationship triangles, have on individuals. Because...
by way of recognition toward such shortcomings that humanity could overcome this "profound error" (Nehamas, 1994, p. 40), diligent...
are the most successful in terms of influencing educational development and learner outcomes. As a component of my educational p...
It exists as one of the most effective representations of the progression from ignorance to knowledge and knowledge to wisdom. Th...
In five pages this paper examines the Bourdieu and Kant philosophical views represented in these texts by Barker and Du Maurier. ...
commandment "thou shalt not kill", for example, are forced to re-examine their views in the light of military service in wartime, ...
and religious background and beliefs, as well as how the health/illness continuum works within the framework of their life. "Env...
In five pages this paper discusses how the U.S. Civil War was the result of competing philosophies of states rights vs. a centrali...
Epicureanism propounded a lifestyle...
will a universal law" (Immanuel Kant). In ethics of choice, Kantian philosophy dictates that intention or consequences can ...
creation of Mark Twains The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. For some time now, as the student researching this topic may be aware...
Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...
expensive roadster, and momentarily loses control of the car, striking and killing a woman, Myrtle Wilson, whom readers later lear...
This, he asserted, was mans freedom of the will, in which people are able to determine their own choices, rather than be automatic...
In five pages the sense of wonder Descartes conjures in his Third Meditation regarding the existence of God is examined. There ar...
This 7 page paper explores three different philosophical concents: the design theory, Kant's theories of knowledge and Plato's ide...
This paper examines the philosophies of Aristotle as seen in the Nicomachean Ethics, and the views of C.S. Lewis in his work, The ...
and the things within it as mere shadows or reflections of a separate world of independently existing, eternal, and unchanging ent...
In six pages this paper examines how knowledge theories are philosophically conceptualized by Kant, Hume, Spinoza, and Descartes. ...
This paper applies existentialism to an analysis of the character Jack in the Titanic film by director James Cameron in 5 pages. ...
In 5 pages this paper examines the universal morality philosophy of Immanuel Kant and how it can be applied to daily life. One sou...
In six pages this paper considers the views of Professor Bernard Williams, who is Cambridge University's Knightbridge Professor of...