Essays 631 - 660
unusual for a theologian (St. Thomas Aquinas, 2002). Aquinas made many significant contributions to philosophy and specifically i...
of achieving either on his own, with the aid of a teacher, or with the help of another more accomplished peer.(Zone, 2002). The st...
to properly identify herself surely saved lives. In the hypothetical situation at hand, there is no heroism, so it would be diffic...
the reader into the oppressive world of slavery. Indeed, it was the authors desire to bring attention to the injustices faced by ...
philosophy" was intent on raising philosophical debate above the aesthetic and theological interests which had held it captive for...
He sought not to try to make people feel any better about themselves or the world in which they lived aside from empowering them t...
on actions, then the argument would end there. Utilitarianism, therefore, is their effect on society and the world at large. Actio...
If we accept the premise, therefore, that science is capable of defining physiological death then we must ask ourselves how do we ...
theory of "seeing is believing" and that something must be touched in order to be a reality. According to Goellnitz, one s...
usually associated with the Roman Catholic Pope, his presence does not seem to effect the laws of the government as women in Ital...
identifies Schopenhauers most distinctive contribution to philosophy as his "insistence that Will is more basic than thought to bo...
no matter how insignificant or trite they may seem. However, it would seem that he believed that there were at least two types of ...
is on a morphine drip to which there is attached only one instruction: decrease the drip when respirations reach four per minute....
after his death would become the worlds largest retailer. In principle and on paper at least, Wal-Mart still operates on th...
power. For example, Machiavelli points out that the ruler becomes great in the eyes of the people by overcoming difficulties and o...
to Grotius more humane perspective was that of Jacques-Benigne Bossuets, who "reinforced medieval notions of kingship in his theor...
it is (L) that connects human behavior with the environment via "desires and beliefs" that the environment fosters in us (Rosenbe...
through a consideration not of personal benefit but simply on the basis that the choices are the only rational ones. Kant argues ...
done right and what potentially could go wrong, in the end one has to choose the model or models that most closely resemble ones o...
saying the above statement. The names change and the nature of the addiction changes with the substance, but the goal and reward ...
his own mind is anarchy. "The churches are closed, or opened only for the noisy discussions and drunken revels of a frenzied peopl...
North and the more rural, ante-bellum Old South. Most historians agree that, in addition to the concept of slavery, vast d...
trial for treason and his thoughts prior to his execution. These are the Apology, the Crito and the Phaedo, which is an account of...
Theravada Buddhism was the original form, which was based on lengthy meditation and required...
and the construction company wants to get on with their job of building whatever. Henry David Thoreau, in Walden Pond, written i...
only in the perception of the one who desires it....
the society and, subsequently, from the self. Sartres concept of alienation was certainly different from Marxs. Of course, Mar...
according to The Columbia Encyclopedia is "imposition of penalty of death by the state" (Capital Punishment, 1993). Altho...
told us we had to leave, or go to jail. My mother came out of the house crying, we children knew there was trouble, but we were c...
even know that IV drug use is. Should such persons be subject to taking unnecessary tests, or rather, should the government trust ...