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of the same) is "reason" rather than the self-conscious "I." One may then extend the concept from ethical ideas to morality, whic...

While Hume appears down to Earth and logical, he is, in a very general sense, a skeptic. He notes that there is a battle between r...

strive for bigger and better opportunities, to reach beyond what has become comfortable and consistent in order to attain that whi...

world, one would find the "ideal tree of which all trees which we see are copies, the ideal house and ideas of all other objects i...

well-being but our physical well-being also. For instance, Terry (54) tells us that music has been widely recommended as a techni...

(Nietzsche, 1974). It does seem to be true that when someone supports old institutions and mainstays they are applauded by the lar...

Power is behind all that we perceive, then the Higher Power would be a deceitful one. Descartes arrives at this conclusion becaus...

considered his philosophy to be heresy. Abbey (2004) notes that the work which gained Diderot the charge of disseminating pornogr...

and their duty, and allowing them to share the advantages of education and government with man," which Wollstonecraft indicates wi...

Crises arise that usher in change, systems achieve equilibrium for a time and then begin to change again, leading to another round...

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...

what is real and what is perceived, and the one is not dependent on the other. Naturalism states that it is the laws of nature whi...

constructed and the meaning made perfectly clear so that all understand what types of behavior will be tolerated and which will no...

highest truth and certainty I have learned either from the senses or through the senses" (Descartes 29). But he is quick to note ...

for example, would exist even if there were no human beings there to see it, but not that colour was an independent spiritual form...

in his own personal progress at the cost of everything else. He was wholly supportive of the scientific community during the Enli...

manner in order to attain end-E" (Honderich, 1995, p. 436). For example, a person might resolve to pay a bill as soon as it is rec...

of veracity. This is because each segment of humanity is its own little universe and what is held to be truth in one section of th...

the world, but only derive essence later. In other words, a human is nothing to start with, and the essence of the person comes fr...

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

This paper consists of 12 pages and concerns asking famous philosophers such as George Berkeley, Rene Descartes, John Wisdom, Davi...

In seven pages this paper discusses private property in a discussion of social contract theory, the views of Rousseau, Hobbes, and...

and the things within it as mere shadows or reflections of a separate world of independently existing, eternal, and unchanging ent...

In six pages this paper examines how knowledge theories are philosophically conceptualized by Kant, Hume, Spinoza, and Descartes. ...

In this paper consisting of seven pages a better understanding of such abuses as Amadou Diallo's murder by NYPD officers is provid...

In five pages the statement 'Democracy is not a mechanical device, it is, rather, a living organism that can only flourish in cert...

a relatively ordinary life: parents were moderate middle class He was able to complete school and did go away to college to stud...

the many delights of civilization, and thus showing Enkidu this type of pleasure is important (PG). Enkidu himself however sees i...

In eight pages this paper defends Plato's assertion regarding the immortality of the human soul with references made to his text P...

This research paper addresses eight specific quetions, offering answers, concerning issues that pertain to Kant, Mill and Aristotl...