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Essays 871 - 900
or sight) was subjected to each individuals standards of judgment. Whereas concrete facts were not changeable or subject to ones i...
Weavers Ideas Have Consequences speaks to the complexities that emanate from mans shortcomings about the world around him. The co...
what one wants, and visualizing it, that one will eventually be free from the gnawing desire. This is true either through attainme...
been warriors but are now too docile for their own survival. Those who are poor are not poor because of the system, but are poor b...
money" (Collings, 1997; p. 52). The sentiment was true long before the 1980 survey, and its persistence over time likely would no...
universal laws? Clearly, they can sometimes, but other times they would not be thought of in such a manner. John Stuart Mill on th...
when it is expressed as a love of virtue, and justice when it is considered as one of many virtues. For Hobbes, self-interest "ta...
human understanding. He saw the concept as being equated with something that exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transce...
system in ancient Greece wherein a woman had a protector (kyrios) or one who watched over them. This was either a brother or their...
ability has improved considerably, inasmuch as the decisions I now make are more analytical and based upon a broader and more dive...
Even in the absence of hard and fast codes of ethics such as those that exist for some professions, there are certain basic guidel...
therapeutic manner (Tourville and Ingalls, 2003). This relationship may refer to a single individual, or the "person" may be a sma...
gear pedagogy accordingly, politicians, policymakers and the public at-large are still "stuck" in the old paradigm, which states t...
used to understand present and future situations. Interestingly, the author points out that when taking the models of socialism an...
In five pages this paper examines the Bourdieu and Kant philosophical views represented in these texts by Barker and Du Maurier. ...
commandment "thou shalt not kill", for example, are forced to re-examine their views in the light of military service in wartime, ...
institution of marriage, and the influence that family structures, including relationship triangles, have on individuals. Because...
the standards movement. This "default" philosophy emerges from a behaviorist, positivists background that places great emphasis...
would be no hope of redemption or change. Frankl supports this position by contending that mans search for meaning "is the primar...
by way of recognition toward such shortcomings that humanity could overcome this "profound error" (Nehamas, 1994, p. 40), diligent...
(Kemerling, 2002). Lacking professional teacher training, Socrates elected to do some "free-wheeling" by partaking of spirited di...
In six pages this paper presents two philosophies on community policing and also compares the differences between general policing...
In five pages the transcendence theory of Martin Heidegger is discussed and compared with those of Friedrich Nietzsche. Four sour...
In 5 pages this paper discusses how this travelogue represents the life philosophy of its author, novelist John Steinbeck. There ...
also equated with humanism, a movement that put man at the center of the universe, as opposed to God (Honderich 375). While the hu...
considering them in De homine, and proposing that there was some kind of interaction between the two, Descartes provided a more cl...
In five pages William Paley's teleological argument, St. Anselm's ontological argument, and St. Thomas Aquinas' cosmological argum...
In fourteen pages this paper examines the philosophies of postmodernism, Marxism, existentialism, analytic, reconstructionism, beh...
The views of Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle are examined in this consideration of the preference for hylemorphism over materialism i...
which he writes that he was able to formulate only after his extensive observations that led to The Origin of Species. He came to...