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Philosophical Concepts

of the most important philosophers when talking about knowledge and where it comes from. His explanation suggests that there is a ...

Contingent A Priori Truths

or observation. For example we can only argue that the mans eyes are blue by looking at his eyes. Here we have a statement that ne...

Philosophical Argument on Morally Justifiable Violence and Political Oppression

In five pages Hume, Kant, Cicero, and Plato are discussing how when responding to political oppression violence can be morally jus...

Philosophers Compared

if it is taken outside of the context of societal situations. For Nozick, justice is more clearly a function of societal roles a...

Eternal Happiness and God

In ten pages free will and God are analyzed in this philosophical essay with a critical examination of theories by Hume, Kierkegaa...

God's Existence 'First Cause' Argument Invalidation

In nine pages this paper presents the 'First Cause' concept and analytically proves it to be invalid with references made to the t...

Man's Soul and God Contemplated in Philosophy Essays

In three pages philosophers Hume, Descartes, and Aristotle are applied to the concepts of man's nature, the existence of God, and ...

The Enlightenment in America by Ernest Cassara

In five pages this text is examined in a discussion of enlightenment philosophy as represented by Rousseau, Hume, and Locke. Ther...

Chapter 3 of From the Presocratics to the Present A Personal Odyssey by Daniel Kolak

In seven pages this chapter is discussed in terms of how the author portrayed the philosophical influences of such theorists as Hu...

Proust and Descartes Regarding Identity

This research report looks at the ideas of these two philosophers through written works. Other works are explored such as those by...

Philosophy Defined

In ten pages this paper examines what philosophy represents as considered in Philosophy The Quest For Truth by Louis R. Pojman a...

Bertrand Russell's View of Knowledge

experiential knowledge is correct? David Humes ideas about knowledge are very powerful. He held that people acquire beliefs about ...

The Problem with Trope Theory

one could say that what if one collects a number of red apples, but they are all different kinds. There are Macintosh, red Delicio...

Locke and Hume on Knowledge

do believe that knowledge comes from testing, such as in science, and has little to do with experience. This is because experience...

Ralph Ellison

mention the civil war in Spain and the Communist state in Russia as instances in which people grew "tired of seeing the rich have ...

Historical Development of Prisons

accompanying technological advancement changed society to such an extent that people felt they had no guidelines for how to behave...

An Analysis of the Ideas of Hume and Ayer

classic volume, the philosopher demonstrates that people know the causes of events but that this knowledge is really perhaps based...

A Philosophical Look at Animal Testing

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...

Ideas about Peace and War

theories abound, and this idea actually seemingly did spark speculation about other black leaders deaths, it seems that at the ver...

Kant/Speculative Beginning of Human History

A 3 page reaction paper to Immanuel Kant’s 1786 text “Speculative Beginning of Human History,” which draws on the Judeo/Christian ...

The Peter Principle And Human Resource Management

to do with the inertia of hierarchies in any type of organization wherein those who are promoted are not innovative but rather, th...

Human Resources: Hospital Case Study

privately-owned not-for-profit partnership that was established more than four decades ago (Doctors Hospital, 2005). Briefly state...

What Is Strategic Human Resource Management?

advantage has been the result of its employee base, this may be due to the level of service provided, as seen in the company such ...

The Ethical Debate over Cloning

In other words, the author relates legislation that allows for human cloning to take place in a research realm, as long as no clon...

Human Nature According to Confucius

those often aligned with Eastern thought. Yao & Yao (1998) write: "Here are yang and yin [two cosmic forces]: thus humans have the...

Human Resource Management: A Comparison Between Civilian and Military Management

warranted, but upon careful examination there are more similarities in military HR and private sector HR than one might think. Fir...

Cather: "O Pioneers!"

she and her brothers Oscar, Lou and Emil all have to work extremely hard, and Oscar and Lou resent her, though this isnt revealed ...

Air Pollution/Cause and Effect

concerning controlling natural sources of pollutants and it is also a definition that recognizes the serious impact that human act...

Human Resource Management Trends

training program that should be included is that of cultural sensitivity training (Banerjee, 2007). This all means the human resou...

Dubai Safety Belts Case Study

personnel management. When we look at personnel management we can argue that during the 1980s there was an increased emphasis ...