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to be "yes." Problems arise however when we try to make certain that we are expressing meanings unambiguously; Quine among others...

reason" (Schlumpf 59). In modern society, there are enormous pressures that tempt business people to take shortcuts in order to ...

interaction with the world, ourselves, and others. Our perceptual capacities are not fixed; they are not static or one-dimensiona...

to break up that civilization into smaller units. The point being, love is doomed because society requires multiple, sanitized re...

he defends himself well, Socrates is still found guilty and stoically accepts his fate, indicating that since only the gods are aw...

who is, for a good many people, the most entertaining character in the play. Mephistopheles manipulates Faust so that he "loves an...

in order to extract the location. While it may be distasteful and unconstitutional, it can also be argued as necessary. The tortur...

his original conclusion that God exists, a being greater than can be conceived. Question: Is this a devotional work or a philoso...

should be accompanied by a synchronized text transcript (closed captioning) and audio announcements should also have a synchronize...

(Kemerling, 2002). Lacking professional teacher training, Socrates elected to do some "free-wheeling" by partaking of spirited di...

culpable. It is true that many other nations, such as France, opposed the war effort in Iraq. Did the U.S. overstep its bounds? Wh...

the role it plays, in the cognitive system of which it is a part (Levin, 2004). Functionalism is an opinion about the nature of m...

body but the are not only of the body ("Rene," 2005). The mind controls these things. Mind also cannot be "thought without it thin...

steeled and a heart trans- formed into brass, so as to bear the weight of such responsibility" (Nietzsche, p.129). One can see tha...

human understanding. He saw the concept as being equated with something that exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transce...

obviously see elements of the man who wrote the story, for Kafka is often considered to be an individual who deeply examined his w...

persuasive arguments, Aristotle mentions three techniques: pathos, ethos and logos (What is logos?) "Pathos" (from which we get th...

expected to develop some form of cancer "or another rapidly debilitating condition and well be dead within a year of getting the d...

once again began drawing air into his lungs illustrates how this is not necessarily a definitive component of being dead. As such...

This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...

it will occur; which leads to the Conclusion: "no action is free" (Cahn, 1971, 39). Hard determinism argues that these two premi...

human being for a short span of time. The cave allegory is quite well known and has been used by many to interpret Platos philosop...

achieve this level of human excellence by adhering to the fourteen axioms acts of Nicomachean Ethics, which included gentility, ho...

the topic of education. He says, "Next, said I, compare our nature in respect of education and its lack to such an experience as t...

In five pages this paper examines the Bourdieu and Kant philosophical views represented in these texts by Barker and Du Maurier. ...

of science there are two branches which are epistemology and metaphysics (Honderich, 1995). Science makes up an important part of ...

in Modern Thought points to two cataclysmic moments in history that were responsible for altering the contemporary perceptions of ...

the standards movement. This "default" philosophy emerges from a behaviorist, positivists background that places great emphasis...

exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transcendence then exceeds all human capacity. This concept is not foreign to the re...

where nothing detrimental occurs. In fact, Fast Company publishes ethical problems and lies that contributors send in on an annual...