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In fifteen pages this paper examines the intention of philosophy from a historical perspective that includes consideration of phil...

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...

In five pages a case study involving whether or not to have a baby or have an abortion is examined in an application of the theori...

acknowledging it as the source from which the mind receives sensory information. However, Kant argued that the mind cannot know th...

assented to three kinds of knowledge: intuitive, demonstrative, and sensitive and all are based upon the concept of "ideas" (Kenyo...

speaker is Philo, a religious skeptic (Johnson 266). The discussion is chiefly between Philo and Cleanthes, with occasional remar...

youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...

education is still substantially elevated in contemporary culture. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees virtue as choice and so mora...

and that is that it enables both freedom and necessity to coexist; it favors an ethical reliance on moral deterrence without brini...

deeper and ask just what the nature of these impressions are, and how they operate (PG). The impression may after all arise from...

this is a ludicrous statement because if the sun did not rise, there would be no life as human beings need the sun in order for th...

The problem which arose was that if the mind generates all perception, then is our understanding of something "real", meaning of t...

see the usefulness of your food donation, insofar as eating food will improve his health." And there is still yet another agreeabl...

a store, and decides that he will not do it again but keeps the merchandise anyway to avoid prosecution, he is being reasonable. H...

a "relentless critic of metaphysics and religion" (David Hume, 2002). Hume argued that "our purely philosophical conceptions of G...

story has on an impressionable young mind. What did Isaac think and feel at the time? What must he have thought when he was bound ...

Hume was often at odds with other philosophers when it came to his personal perception of human nature and the ways of life....

the chance to break free from such constraints. The global society was ready for a tremendous change in direction following the t...

experience, will readily be admitted with regard to such objects, as we remember to have once been altogether unknown to us..." (A...

from the Appearances of Nature (Beebe, 2002). In this text, Paley wrote: There cannot be design without a designer; contrivance wi...

this sentiment and states that it is good when each individual realizes their talents and abilities to their fullest. Speaking in ...

wet because a toddler had an "accident" or there is blood everywhere because someone was murdered. Clearly, the bed might have bee...

made consistent"; meaning that its hard to believe we can draw the wrong conclusions if we have true premises to begin with (Berke...

awareness of the moment at hand and draws attention to the fleeting nature of existence that unifies all things. "The ideas of Se...

if cats and dogs and other animals are pets and viewed as members of the family, how can people experiment on them and then put th...

giant metal man falling into the sea. Hogarth is the only one that believes him and rushes away to search in likely places for the...

is real? Again, the Cartesian Cogito is something that resolves the problem for some. Still, this is a problem that many philosoph...

However, we can also argue that the proof f this truth made no difference to whether the belief was true, being true even before i...

(Washington State University, 2004). Plato asserts that our perceptions are essentially "shadows" of real objects. In ot...

here on Earth. This of course, did not go over well with the Church who was used to organizing everyones life on Earth. Reason, th...