Essays 31 - 47
programs and results can be explained ... as the result of social interests" (Campa). There is another group of constructivists le...
something in Platos morality which does not really belong to Plato but is only to be met with in his philosophy, one might say in ...
to devise her answer. What is arguable is not whether reason exists, but whether it is good. Is reasoning better than acting upon...
This paper addresses religious rationalism versus romantic passion in Nathanial Hawthorne's nineteenth century novel. This five p...
point. Is it possible to make a sharp distinction between science and non-science? What is Poppers way of demarcating scientific ...
the ethical and moral code by which humans live. Through the distortion of individualism, humanity has turned into a selfish, ego...
Essentially, the allegory likens those who remain unaware of forms to prisoners chained in a cave, and they cannot turn their head...
always do the good" and, therefore, is someone goes astray, it is because they lack the knowledge of how to "act rightly" (Shiraev...
epistemology (the study of knowledge) and metaphysics (the study of the fundamental reality from which all others derive). This pa...
would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images" (Plato, 1969. p. 409). He then likens the philosopher to a prisoner who ...
experience, will readily be admitted with regard to such objects, as we remember to have once been altogether unknown to us..." (A...
According to Aristotle (1997), "Reasoning is demonstration when it proceeds from premises which are true and primary or of such a ...
In eight pages this paper examines these philosophers' views regarding knowledge in a consideration of experience and reason with ...
In 10 pages this paper examines the statement regarding rationalists author Jonathan Swift was making in his portrayal of the Houy...
This paper addresses the statement: functionalism is a scientifically suspect theory, quite apart from concern about its empirical...
In nine pages the debate between innate or native knowledge as espoused by Kant, Descartes, and Plato is compared with the empiric...
with whatever is remote and extraordinary; and running without control into the most distant parts of space and time in order to a...