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Essays 301 - 330
a desire to find out something that is known for sure. It is of course hard to know anything is certain. Some people today questio...
of these seemingly paradoxical perspectives on the nature of society and the role of the individual in society. Plato appears to ...
Hence, it is not unexpected that philosophers throughout the ages have also had different thoughts on freedom. While many people,...
considerable empirical consideration but one which has yet to be either proved or refuted. Such as statement, therefore is not a ...
philosophers and artists, and included figures such as Rousseau, Goethe, Hegel and Kant. One of the major elements of Romanticism ...
see the usefulness of your food donation, insofar as eating food will improve his health." And there is still yet another agreeabl...
with the absolute. Nagarjuna disagreed with this sense of absolutism. Nagarjuna philosophy can also be distinguished from mainst...
an ends justify the means ideology. To Machiavelli, justice has to do with an end. One can take Machiavellis concept a bit furthe...
Nozicks Theory of Justice presents a strong argument for the libertarian view. This view honors property rights, that is, that in...
it comes to knowledge leads one to believe that people are much more likely to act out in such a manner that is motivated only by ...
a store, and decides that he will not do it again but keeps the merchandise anyway to avoid prosecution, he is being reasonable. H...
84). However, Socrates is willing to concede that an individual can desire an evil thing if he mistakenly first evaluates it as go...
as a problem (Frost, 1962). However, later philosophers, as they pondered the nature of the universe, began to see the fact of cha...
held the belief that morality was performed because of the will of an "other," rather than driven by the beast within (The Philoso...
was changing in terms of philosophy. John Lockes The Second Treatise of Civil Government is rather compelling and in fact, free ch...
discoveries of this philosopher? Has this person made a significant contribution that has led to the discovery or founding of some...
one looks at a variety of lifetimes via reincarnation, its purpose explained by knowledge. In other words, people are born and liv...
know as the scientific method, which is still used today for ascertaining reliable facts about the natural world. To accomplish hi...
right or correct, or is there something about that action itself that God recognizes, and for this reason declares the action corr...
In five pages this paper considers what philosophers David Hume, Thomas Hobbes, Rene Descartes, and Plato have to say about the du...
In six pages this paper examines William James' philosophy of human nature with religion a primary focus. Four sources are cited ...
This paper examines space and time's inductive relativity as conceptualized by the paradoxes of Zeno in six pages. Four sources a...
of fire (The New York Times, 2008). He lived during the late fifth century BC (The New York Times, 2008). The Eleatic school for i...
namely that similarities between myths count the most, that myth must be interpreted nonliterally and that religions, for the most...
Christianity was based upon a vast compilation of both positive and negative influences acquired from the short-sightedness of pow...
In ten pages Hume's life, works, and writings are considered including his Treatise of Human Nature, with an assessment of his inf...
audience" (66). The reversal refers to a reversal in fortune, which Aristotle believed was classically represented in a fall from...
to combine rational and irrational, and accept it in ones life (Epictetus, 2004). Throughout his first published book Discourses, ...
one else, ever); that he has the strength of character to keep the trust placed in him; and that he will deal kindly and justly wi...
is located in the brain, shouldnt he be thinking, Im inside looking at my body (Dennett). Unfortunately, he cannot make that switc...