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of the law was marrying a Philistine. He wen to Timnah, saw a woman, and told his parents to get that woman for him to marry. His ...

of his text The Republic, Plato presents one of Western civilizations most accurate conceptualizations of the tremendous influence...

in order to insure passage to the underworld. The Underworld in this mythology was not a particularly happy place; it was a gloomy...

truly understand Gods word: "I ask Thee, my God: pardon my sins, and as Thou didst grant to Thy servant to speak those words, gran...

wish, they have other freedoms that are perhaps not as obvious. Brave New World supports the hedonistic view. That is, Huxley (199...

unison (Rosen, 2005). Plato (1996) writes: "Is not the community of pleasure and pain the tie that binds? The sharing, to the grea...

world to do well, get promoted, earn more money and gain more status. But those are temporal goals. There isnt anything wrong with...

of the gods in these works appears to be more focused on generating chaos than introducing peace and tranquility to the universe. ...

is clear that each of them has some wish in his mind that he cant articulate; instead, like an oracle, he half-grasps what he want...

how the child will grow and develop and fit into the framework of society at-large. In a similar, Gods justice served throughout t...

pleas, Socrates will not hear of any escape plans. He points out that, even though the sentence was unjust, it was perfectly legal...

This will be my name forever; it has always been my name, and it will be used throughout all generations" (Exodus 3:15). "God rep...

was that they were certain and immutable. Also, knowledge must have as its objective that which is genuinely real as compared to t...

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...

Canonization (Canonization Information, 2002). This step is key because this is what often distinguishes a mere "accident" from a...

come from western society and not conform to the lifestyle of the Muslims there. Not wearing veils was seen as immoral (1969). If ...

that any passage outside our sensitive impressions was not possible and as such "there is no metaphysics: we know nothing of God, ...

the universe and the cells of life on the planet, it was assumed that this enormous and highly intricate mechanism had a designer ...

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

of quickness and penetration, piercing easily below the clumsy platitudes of Thrasymachus to the real difficulty; he turns out to ...

to the average man who does not embark on philosophical pursuits, and does not wonder how the world began but accepts the explanat...

call to action. Bruskin explains that "The essence of the period is that we were galvanized to do something." (32). While docume...

the soul. What the mind or soul once knew is raised to present awareness by a process of recollection aided by the technique of di...

are already well acquainted with the Torah, his book provides an excellent introduction for those that are only somewhat familiar ...

that there is "within the human mind, and indeed by natural instinct, an awareness of divinity," that "God himself has implanted i...

then, accompanied by proof, it can therefore be called knowledge. He seems to move in circles a bit with this assertion, in that ...

attempt to free themselves. What he has realized is that what they had seen all along on the wall of the cave were mere representa...

Socrates ideas. He states that he will be Euthyphros student in these matters. Of course, it would seem that Socrates is being a b...

is Anselms primary opponent in his argument regarding the existence of God. Kants separation between the analytic and the synthet...

constant when the resultant external force acting on the system is zero" and if the system is the universe there are no external f...