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Philosophical Issues' Examination

In five pages this paper considers philosophies of James Mills and Immanuel Kant in a discussion of how philosophy can develop iss...

Philosophical Issues of Being and Becoming

In five pages this report examines the qualities of being human in terms of being and becoming in the individual and incorporates ...

Causation and the Philosophical Differences Between David Hume and Immanuel Kant

In six pages this paper discusses causation and knowledge in a consideration of the differences between the philosophies of David ...

The Matrix Film and Philosophical Concepts

In five pages this paper examines The Matrix and Blade Runner films in a discussion of how the philosophical concepts of Berkeley ...

Philosophical Investigations of Wittgenstein and Their Contemporary Impact

In five pages this paper discusses the contemporary global impact of the philosophy of Wittgenstein. Four sources are listed in t...

Philosophical and Social Contexts of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

themselves against mans authority. It is important for the student to consider the fact that while one might understand the motiv...

Philosophical 'Argument from Design' Argument

In five pages this paper examines the 'Argument from Design' argument from both sides as considered by David Hume in Dialogues Con...

Antoine de Saint Exupery's The Little Prince and Its Philosophical Aspects

In five pages this report discusses personal desire understanding and freedom as metaphorically depicted in Antoine de Saint Exupe...

Philosophical Comparison of Adam Smith, John Maynard Keynes, and Thomas Malthus

towards a decrease; while the price of provisions would at the same time tend to rise" (Malthus PG). People of that time disagree...

Philosophical Empiricism and Rationalism

In two pages this report examines the Empiricism characterized by the philosophies of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke and the rationa...

Enlightenment Philosophical Age

In five pages this paper examines the Age of Enlightenment, such events as the Industrial and French Revolutions, and the impacts ...

Noble Enchaining the Soul as a Philosophical Proposition

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

John Dewey and Richard Rorty Philosophical Parallels

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

Taoism, Buddhism, and Zen's Basic Philosophical Differences

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

John Rawls and Thomas Hobbes on Various Philosophical Issues

In ten pages this paper discusses the fool's argument, the personal contract, the prisoner's dilemma, and the assurance game as pe...

Social and Philosophical Aspects of Penjing or Bonsai

the supposedly modern invention of "stress. They dreamed of retreating to a simpler life in the countryside where they could be o...

Jean Jacques Rousseau's Political and Philosophical Zenith Reached in The Social Contract

This report discusses Rousseau's writing of The Social Contract and what it reflects about his political philosophical development...

Epistemology's Philosophical Definitions

knowledge by comparing the encoding of conceptually related co-occurrences with the encoding of conceptually unrelated co-occurren...

Philosophical Role of Saint Augustine

In five pages this paper examines the contributions of Saint Augustine to philosophy's history and development. Five sources are ...

The Philosophical Theme of Gattaca by Andrew Niccol

25A). Human beings have been striving to achieve Utopian status ever since Adam and Eve were stricken from the Garden of Ed...

Saul Kripke's Philosophical Propositions

In five pages this paper examines the connections with 'a posteriori' and 'a priori' knowledge, contingent truth and necessary tru...

An Overview of Philosophical Egocentrism

"endowed with special grace or powers" (Christian, 2008). It is easy to understand how such claims are perpetuated and reinforced:...

Politics and Ethics - A Philosophical Overview

to explore the views of human nature of Plato and other thinkers, as well as how these views were expressed in governmental form. ...

Western and Eastern Philosophical Differences

In seven pages differences that exist between Eastern and Western philosophies are considered with references made to Zen and the ...

Plato's Life and Philosophical Dialogues

in the Peloponnesian War, which ended in a resounding defeat for Athens in 404 B.C. (Levinson ix-x). While it can be assumed that...

Philosophical Discussion Questions

as a bridge so that people with different understandings can nevertheless come to understand and appreciate one anothers views. ...

Same-Sex Marriage - A Philosophical Analysis

In a paper of nine pages, the writer looks at the topic of same-sex marriage. Frameworks such as religion, politics, and ethical p...

Philosophical Arguments of Lucretius

eye can see as opposed to mere speculation about what might be. Of course, objections would be other theories that for example God...

Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder and Philosophical Education

In nineteen pages this paper discusses the philosophical education of teenager Sophie Amundsen in Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder'...

Philosophical Theory, Causality, and Substance

said that one can easily recognize in an educated mind the ability to entertain a thought without accepting it; Aristotle taught t...