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

ideas. As we shall soon see, through these speeches Plato seems to have reasoned out how it is that mankind make their way from th...

conditions and development; contrarily, humanity may also perceive the world as a more direct understanding based upon their spiri...

life fulfillment and that a disabled individual should be allowed to die because their quality of life will not allow them to find...

it, these are all abstractions on the concept of the apple in the first place. These notions could not be made without the immedi...

childhood, during his early life, Socrates was a sculptor, following in the footsteps of his father, Sophroniscus (Wikpedia, 2003)...

Hume presented his arguments in a pair of treatises that are still considered required reading for any student of Western philosop...

Essentially, the allegory likens those who remain unaware of forms to prisoners chained in a cave, and they cannot turn their head...

consider that if an entity, such as a nation, is to grow and become prosperous there will be enemies and as such perhaps war is es...

avoids trying to force the same concept of right and wrong upon all of the worlds societies, objectivism believes there is conside...

education, Aquinas was exposed to the work of the ancient Greek philosophers. Throughout his writing , Aquinas worked out a relati...

the only way to arrive at this point, he seems to be saying, is to carefully examine anything that one believes with the yardstick...

doubt and thought. If he thinks, then he exists: at least, his mind exists, since what he knows of his body is dependent, again, o...

must recognize that the consciousness (cit) is a separate phenomena which is present regardless of the presence or absence of stim...

not for ones performance, but for his or her actions which may be attributable to a sense of duty (Honderich 323). To some, this m...

well as] hard physical work and unhealthy lifestyle" and most donors are sent home after only five days (Tomiuc, 2003). While the ...

defines pornography, which is that they do not know what it is, but they know it when they see it (11). Similarly, it is not out o...

the time, today people are faced with decisions and can decide to be honest or face dire consequences. Journalists today sometimes...

also be allowed to have their own private property. In Aristotles belief, man is inherently born sinful. Because of this ...

interaction with the world, ourselves, and others. Our perceptual capacities are not fixed; they are not static or one-dimensiona...

to break up that civilization into smaller units. The point being, love is doomed because society requires multiple, sanitized re...

he defends himself well, Socrates is still found guilty and stoically accepts his fate, indicating that since only the gods are aw...

persuasive arguments, Aristotle mentions three techniques: pathos, ethos and logos (What is logos?) "Pathos" (from which we get th...

once again began drawing air into his lungs illustrates how this is not necessarily a definitive component of being dead. As such...

in order to extract the location. While it may be distasteful and unconstitutional, it can also be argued as necessary. The tortur...

his original conclusion that God exists, a being greater than can be conceived. Question: Is this a devotional work or a philoso...

who is, for a good many people, the most entertaining character in the play. Mephistopheles manipulates Faust so that he "loves an...

reason" (Schlumpf 59). In modern society, there are enormous pressures that tempt business people to take shortcuts in order to ...

to be "yes." Problems arise however when we try to make certain that we are expressing meanings unambiguously; Quine among others...

She says: "The question should not be: Do we have something in common-reason, self-consciousness, a soul-with other animals? (With...