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they could, through their will, cause their actions to become universal law. Kant held that only those things that have bee...
to the first two in that people have some former knowledge in order to "know" someone, or "know" how to do something (Hospers, 196...
However, Allen also makes the point that Platos attitude was at least partially due to his respect and fear of the powers of art o...
on Edmund Burkes Philosophy, 2002). * The traditions therefore which evolve from the life of a nation have a real purpose and usef...
was born in Akron, Ohio and would one day be considered as "the most significant philosopher to have written in English in the sec...
Conceptions of Virtue). Furthermore, it was Plato who argued that love was the essential ingredient in the good life because love...
is that these constructors of the new society are completely ignorant of their own racial, social and economic position within th...
top the list. The Catholic Church is often quoted as having said, "Give me a child until he is seven and he will always be Catholi...
thing" sets the stage for each of his subsequent steps. In Step 2 he delineates his completeness into one of its two parts, the b...
and it was on this that Plato based his philosophical oeuvre (1994). He was not only a disciple of Socrates but a diehard adversar...
idea of self is more genuine and original, unique in its conception. Also, at the very foundation of this philosophy is that there...
Virtuous action was defined by Aristotle as what a person with practical wisdom would choose. The golden mean, as defined by Ari...
the war has a specific goal in mind. NON-CHRISTIAN VIEWPOINT The problem, the non-Christian would say, is that these rules are ei...
that requires the transmission or transposition of the parts of those beings (1998). However, substances are simple unextended ent...
basically a war between Athens and Sparta (Thucydides, 1881). This came about as a result of the growth of the Athenian Empire, a...
too saw that the people needed leadership. The general public was thought not quite capable of making the big decisions. While Mac...
They are, instead, robot-like in that they do what they are told and do not question the validity of the teachings. Instead, peopl...
upon them. For Egan, the teachers role is to allow the students to learn through abstract thought, previously thought too cognitiv...
our understanding of language, democracy, the individual (self), within both the public and private spheres. Rorty notes, for exa...
Each criticized the foundationalist approach advocated by Russell. Rorty (1989, 87), for example, insisted:...
also saw mind and body as two separate substance. The Descartes position on the mind-body problem combines the idea of substance d...
beautiful. However, how can one make such judgments without purpose? Why is something wrong? If there is no purpose to life no one...
contrary, that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning." Albert Camus in The Myth of Sisyphus. * Life is a tragedy fo...
of itself, is not the end of the line in relation to the state of religious toleration, inasmuch as its very definition is that of...
are told, when will others in the same position known if they are being told the truth, or will they assume the worse, harming hum...
In five pages this paper examines how philosopher John Stuart Mill perceived individuality and its role in democratic systems. Th...
off in the matter of modern political philosophies, it is still important to question what is meant by "think" or what defines the...
This research report examines the ideas of the philosopher Rene Descartes and how he views reality. Is only the physical real? Ide...
This research report looks at the ideas of these two philosophers through written works. Other works are explored such as those by...
This paper analyzes German philosopher G.W.F. Hegel's works, Phenomenology of Mind, and Phenomenology of Spirit, with an emphasis ...