YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Historical Overview of Philosophy
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do was make sure students could read and write properly and have the skills necessary to access they type of knowledge that was ou...
Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...
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...
Epicureanism propounded a lifestyle...
of such works. On further consideration, in fact, the role of these authors in revealing the relationship between men and women w...
what Descartes believed to be the existence of humanity and humanitys understanding of what knowledge truly is. In a comparison of...
texts The Republic and Crito, Plato learned his lessons well. In both works, Plato theorizes what justice is through deductive re...
a toxic substance. When corporations repeatedly break the rules regarding environmental protection, it says in a very loud voice ...
In five pages this paper discusses the philosophies of Locke and Berkeley featured in The Matrix film as they pertain to the mater...
learning, which was the current philosophy of his day (American Philosopher John Dewey). Since the inception of Deweys e...
Each criticized the foundationalist approach advocated by Russell. Rorty (1989, 87), for example, insisted:...
a mirror which no stone can crack, whose quicksilver will never wear off, whose gilding Nature continually repairs" (Thoreau 188)....
is contrasted with "conservative" or "right-wing" ideologies. Within the broader context of political theory. "liberalism" has a d...
They are, instead, robot-like in that they do what they are told and do not question the validity of the teachings. Instead, peopl...
We can better understand this by invoking a comparison. A generalist would demand sameness in terms of how something functions ca...
In six pages this paper analyzes the contention of Socrates that an 'unexamined life is not worth living' as this view is represen...
and the production of goods and services enhanced, Greenspan contends that the first step in stimulating our economy should be to ...
addition to reviving Deweys ideas, the current revival of constructivism also encompasses the ideas of other giants of education s...
of her idiots began passing the same exams as non-retarded children, she started to question the effectiveness of the conventional...
The central issue has nothing to do with the sex of the individuals. The case is not affected by the fact that they are two...
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 ...
strive for bigger and better opportunities, to reach beyond what has become comfortable and consistent in order to attain that whi...
identifies Schopenhauers most distinctive contribution to philosophy as his "insistence that Will is more basic than thought to bo...
While Hume appears down to Earth and logical, he is, in a very general sense, a skeptic. He notes that there is a battle between r...
of that century, the French philosopher, Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) developed his metaphysical theories known as "occasionali...
Stuart Mill (1806-1873) Mill.htm). An advocate of this particular perspective, "Popper thought that both Mill and Comte were wrong...