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like the male philosophers of the day. She was the exception. While by and large, the people saw women as having a subservient pla...

exactly? Wikipedia defines it as follows: " Extortion is a criminal offense, which occurs when a person obtains money, behaviour, ...

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

Indeed, it seems that within the context of philosophy, there is a wrestling with religious thought, because it is from the rejec...

have been utilized in both historical and contemporary politics: (a) The use of diplomacy and the formation of coalitions; (b) Vio...

attacks were largely carried out by those fighting for their freedom from a corrupt system (the Russian Revolution) or for the fre...

correct them by illustrating how values are an integral component of personhood. Indeed, it can readily be argued how the concept...

in such a case: 1. They can tell the child what happened. 2. They can pretend that they dont know what happened. 3. They...

ethical, philosophical, and moral issues that characterize the one delivery mechanism also characterize the other. A particular c...

critics, his reputation and fame has never been truly compromised. He has added a great deal in terms of thought in a variety of d...

contradictory, which is why he is so controversial. One can take the meaning of Mills writings to suggest that individuality rules...

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...

horrible situations such as one that would deem them a "vegetable" do have some thinking capacity perhaps. Yet, is a disembodied m...

who could argue with that idea? Of course, capital punishment is an ongoing debate and one that has been around for centuries. Als...

course of action is often jumbled. Is the patient cognizant enough to make the correct choices? Many issues come into play when a...

normal children do. However, these tasks that ordinary children dont think twice about, offer sincere and daunting challenges to t...

of the world (1993). Yet, one can see this in action in smaller ways. Another way to look at the world is through the model called...

of knowledge through experience, and so is the basis for synthetic statements that are linked to a postiori knowledge. Kant used ...

Taoism, or flowing with the Tao (Dao) is best translated into English as "The Way", "The Flow of Things", the "Course of Nature", ...

human being from conception to death is encapsulated in a pod. In Platos Cave the only thing that they can see is...

challenged mankinds very conscience. He retreated to Walden Pond in order to refresh his own character and to effectively remove ...

the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...

our understanding of language, democracy, the individual (self), within both the public and private spheres. Rorty notes, for exa...

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...

guessing his parents. An eight year old may argue that it is proper for him to go to a particular event by himself, but his parent...

It is in the Second Meditation, however, that the apparent flaw in his logic appears and gives rise to the Cartesian Circle. In th...

As far as al-Ghazali was concerned, "God can do anything he wants, he can punish virtuous people and reward the wicked, he is unde...

come into the picture or they leave home early. There is a lack of creativity and production. Perhaps the wife wants to add an add...

Irish bishop, feared that the philosophies and science of his era were constituting a threat to Christian faith, due to their prom...