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Essays 661 - 690
by way of recognition toward such shortcomings that humanity could overcome this "profound error" (Nehamas, 1994, p. 40), diligent...
who live with us and present themselves in abundance, as far as is possible. Wherefore we must keep them before us1." Here, it see...
like the male philosophers of the day. She was the exception. While by and large, the people saw women as having a subservient pla...
of science there are two branches which are epistemology and metaphysics (Honderich, 1995). Science makes up an important part of ...
in which truth is believed to derive chiefly from experience" (Nichols, 2003, p. 20). In order to explore his general theory, it p...
what is not. Descartes method of systematic doubt is to "reject as if absolutely false anything as to which I could imagine t...
that is permanent and immutable. It is this world that is more real; the world of change is merely an imperfect image of this worl...
"...no man will benefit from his profession unless he is paid as well" (Plato, 2003, p.28). One can easily see that Plato does not...
(Saxonhouse, 1998). This is something thought not to lead to violence, but rather to a profound gentleness (Saxonhouse, 1998). In ...
Christ. The polytheistic society of ancient Greece was already moving toward belief in a single god by the time of Plato and his ...
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...
they tend to see the world with blinders on. They may not be as sympathetic to another individual if they embrace a particular per...
of fate. In the process, our sympathy is aroused" (The tragic hero). Within this definition, tragedy also is included in that it ...
the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...
is a case for communism at least for the lower classes. The supporting premises for that conclusion have already been noted and ge...
were to consider what is most important in society, most would point to causation. One tries to get to the cause of ones drinking,...
behind such behavior it simply cannot be condoned, inasmuch as society cannot be defined as a scientific expression when it routin...
unchanging primary principles constitute the basis of all knowledge, and that knowledge of a thing is required in order to conduct...
the Sophoclean template, time should also be compressed and restricted, with the action of the play taking no more than one day. B...
hand, argued that people would be attracted to others and be willing to help others, if they are virtuous (Lorenz, 2003). Virtue i...
support for the notion that people must obey the laws of the place in which they are born. How is this accomplished? Aristotle d...
and non-rational elements. Of the non-rational, the autonomic responses (breathing, sleeping, digesting, and reproducing) is commo...
However, Allen also makes the point that Platos attitude was at least partially due to his respect and fear of the powers of art o...
his position by specifying that only a certain kind of agent can qualify as a moral agent, and thus subject to the ascriptions of...
idea that concepts and forms had to begin somewhere. How does one know that they are looking at a pink, or a red, or a blue item? ...
away in the most inaccessible part of the abbeys labyrinthine library, where it remained for decades" (Essay on The Name of the Ro...
for example, would exist even if there were no human beings there to see it, but not that colour was an independent spiritual form...
as the original Greek legal process aspired to achieve such status, it can readily be said that its integrity has been severely co...
rich this indicates why he sees a democracy as a deviant state as it is argued that the poor will be the dominant influence on the...
just that mapping of reality that corresponds to the way things are" (25). Of course, many great philosophers, such as Descartes, ...