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In twelve pages the life of political philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli and his important works are analyzed. Four sources are cite...
top the list. The Catholic Church is often quoted as having said, "Give me a child until he is seven and he will always be Catholi...
In five pages Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard's solution to Problemata I featured in his text Fear and Trembling is discussed...
basically a war between Athens and Sparta (Thucydides, 1881). This came about as a result of the growth of the Athenian Empire, a...
contrary, that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning." Albert Camus in The Myth of Sisyphus. * Life is a tragedy fo...
of itself, is not the end of the line in relation to the state of religious toleration, inasmuch as its very definition is that of...
are told, when will others in the same position known if they are being told the truth, or will they assume the worse, harming hum...
our understanding of language, democracy, the individual (self), within both the public and private spheres. Rorty notes, for exa...
Each criticized the foundationalist approach advocated by Russell. Rorty (1989, 87), for example, insisted:...
also saw mind and body as two separate substance. The Descartes position on the mind-body problem combines the idea of substance d...
beautiful. However, how can one make such judgments without purpose? Why is something wrong? If there is no purpose to life no one...
(Locke: The Origin of Ideas, 2003). Locke, unlike many of his peers, denied that certain knowledge was innate for human...
doing whatever one wants, with no regard to law (Krause, 2000). If independence must be sacrificed in order to achieve political ...
They are, instead, robot-like in that they do what they are told and do not question the validity of the teachings. Instead, peopl...
too saw that the people needed leadership. The general public was thought not quite capable of making the big decisions. While Mac...
upon them. For Egan, the teachers role is to allow the students to learn through abstract thought, previously thought too cognitiv...
would soon desire to take the car everywhere instead of walking, maintaining his own bodys requirements. Mans pursuit of the dolla...
to immigration reform, attacking affirmative action programs, welfare reform and tort reform (1996). Joshua Murachik, quoting Eliz...
enjoyment of what is good, not in the pride that he alone is enjoying it, to the exclusion of others. He who thinks himself more ...
they could, through their will, cause their actions to become universal law. Kant held that only those things that have bee...
little consequence when it came to the knowing the true nature of something. However, Montaigne seems to limit himself in that he ...
the limited liberty that they offered was not sufficient to the majority of Arabs in Algeria (Gildea 17). Albert Camus wrote, in...
or of material things. Berkeleys philosophical stance of immaterialism or idealism simply denied the existence of matter all toge...
is less important than the conversation which takes place, and since the two individuals are from periods in Greek history several...
of society. However, Hobbes is also making the assumption that human beings will able to ascertain what is the correct way of doin...
positive reinforcement, for the happiest people are also those who are feeling well and living prosperous lives. These are not me...
him come, And guides the Eastern sages." Milton. One is not born a sage, but rather seeks knowledge or lives in a particular way ...
In four pages existentialism and human emotions are examined within the context of Jean Paul Sartre and among other topics discuss...
In five pages analogy is defined and then related to these two philosophers as they are used in Rousseau's The Social Contract and...
In six pages Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes and Second Treatise of Civil Government by John Locke are discussed in an examination of h...