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my tendency , would be to ask her what she gains for herself, by hanging on to this hurtfulness, Was she at some level repeating ...

a "benign indifference of the universe." This discussion will examine how the narrator, Meursault, aka Camus, gets that message a...

and the things within it as mere shadows or reflections of a separate world of independently existing, eternal, and unchanging ent...

explain why this is so. Descartes also questioned the ability of a dreamer to know whether or not he is dreaming. Many people do a...

when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." And, for 20th century Catholic theologian Josef Pieper (1904-97), Gods role in...

Most people like an ordered existence. It makes them feel comfortable with the real uncertainty of life. Descartes made "doubt" a ...

In five pages this paper analyzes truth in these works in a consideration of the axiological, ontological, and epistemological arg...

In three pages this paper discusses special needs children and includes the personal philosophy of the writer regarding educationa...

In four pages this essay analyzes Emerson's quote and the philosophies that inspired this outlook....

In seven pages this paper presents a comparative analysis of these theorists' philosophies and how each of them would critique the...

of education is determined by the many forces struggling against each other during any given era, forces such as political, religi...

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the philosophies of Socrates and Aristotle with virtue concepts being the primary ...

to discern between what is true and what is opinion has led humanity toward incredible advances in knowledge over the last several...

Canada. It was named for the university where it was developed, McGill. Initially, the system was intended to be used as a part of...

1998, p. 67). The case is not anything new. It is based on a true situation and there are other cases of cancer clusters being tie...

noble. Socrates was doing the right thing. Today, as people wrestle with unjust rules and laws, there are some who simply follow ...

the physical in a dramatic and practical way. While Aristotle saw the heart as just a physical organ, he had an idea that seemed t...

off than those who remain in the cave. Before delving into an analysis, it pays to explore the allegory as laid out by Plato. Wh...

like Hades and the underworld; Tiresias the blind seer; and other references to death and dying (Plato). They decide they have to...

and with that has come an interest in spirituality itself, outside of any religious context. It is this search for a truth that m...

can one know what is beautiful or what is ugly? There must be some sort of shared experience. Plato uses a cave allegory--somethi...

what was passing in the world around them, to the realm of re-presentative intellect. An external phenomenon is thus translated i...

soul, as imaged by Plato, is made up of the qualities of reason, spirit and desire or appetite (Honderich, et al, 1995). The "reas...

in order to be just. Many are familiar with the tales of Sodom and Gomorrah from the bible. They understand that many cities had ...

In seven pages the cave allegory featured in Plato's Republic is applied to contemporary U.S. political leadership. Four sources ...

This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...

a weapon to the hands of a madman is obviously unjust. Taylor (2003) comments on how this refutation of Cephalus position demonstr...

humans cannot readily draw on the human collective conscious, or the knowledge that exists in the universe, they had a glimpse of ...

n.d.). Plato did talk about God, in Timaeus, Plato said that if God made the world as perfect then the soul must be perfect, also ...

In a type of author/character debate, Plato explores the premises of his theory by having Socrates debate them. Plato theorized ...