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3 Epistemology Articles Evaluated

the idea that indeed, there is something that is true and real. Whether or not individual human beings know what that is, is besid...

Theology and the Impact of the Enlightenment

As things now stand, much is lacking which prevents men from being, or easily becoming, capable of correctly using their own reaso...

Atlantico and River Beverages Accounting

they bear responsibility for the budget advice they produce. The division manager reviews this budget but cannot make changes, ma...

State According to John Rawls and Jean Jacques Rousseau

of each association, and in which each, while uniting himself with all, may still obey himself alone, and remain as free as before...

Jean Paul Sartre's Existentialism Revealed in His Play No Exit

difficult to define as it is a philosophy that originated with one philosopher (Kierkegaard) but has been embraced by a good numbe...

Hegel, Phenomenology and Existentialism

the use of the term "existentialism" as a term to describe a "distinctly human mode of being" (Honderich, 1995, p. 259). Phenom...

Perfectly Virtuous Medieval City

to be happy, but to be happy he has to know what happiness is and how to achieve it (Alfarabi, p. 35). Here we come to the idea of...

Three Essays on Philosophy and Ethics

made to render the greatest happiness for the greatest number. That is all that utilitarianism is equated with. There are differen...

Kant, Utilitarianism and Consequentialism

every objection. What is perhaps striking is that Mills theory is applicable to a variety of situations. Unlike Kant for ex...

Religion, Metaphysics, and Philosophy

no date). The senses are most attuned when the metaphysical component of time is involved, with a brief moment remembered f...

Capitalism and the Philosophy of Karl Marx

they realize that they may not be able to survive. They only have to come up with the money because an old, poor friend married a ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson on Spirituality

the individual. For one to realize his best self he had to first discover himself and to learn to trust himself. He believed in ...

Educational Philosophy

upon an instructor who cannot handle the task. However, those who are called in to substitute for the AWOL educators provide an e...

German Retail Industry Case and General Application of Business Ethics

to pressure they undertook to dispose the oil rig on land, which they knew and was later proved to be both more costly and more da...

Fashion Designer Coco Chanel

you based your entire philosophy and overall concept on monumental changes within the fashion industry where womens clothing is co...

Unpopularity, Societal Disapproval and a Socratic Dialogue

David: So you can be popular? Allen: Yeah. David: Why do you want to be popular Allen? I know everyone wants to be popular in h...

Philosophies on Personal Learning

1999, p. 104+) - believed children are not merely a collection of empty vessels waiting for information to fill the void, but rath...

Volunteerism in the Assistance of Dogs

the board or they may witness a dog being beaten to death and nothing is done. In fact, the plight of the homeless dog is a cause ...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Stevens' Philosophy

in a firm that specialized in antitrust lawsuits ("John Paul Stevens," 2006). In 1970, Stevens was appointed by President Nixon to...

U.S. Civil War and Northern Women Historiography

records how she inquired about one young man who was brought into the ward crying, "I cant die. I cant die" (Livermore 174). She w...

Jesus Christ and Friedrich Nietzsche

from a degree of torment, the sources of our greatest joys lying awkwardly close to those of our greatest pain" (De Botton 215). ...

Philosophy of Education by Jean Jacques Rousseau

tangled when one relies on the system to teach. In fact, when examining contemporary life, one can see that a large compliant abou...

Aristotle and Rene Descartes Define Philosophy

what is not. Descartes method of systematic doubt is to "reject as if absolutely false anything as to which I could imagine t...

Obstacles of Knowledge According to Francis Bacon

were synonymous. In his investigations into science, Aristotle knew of inductive reasoning, but he relied heavily on use of the de...

'Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius' by Jorge Luis Borges

the author - harbor the repression of ones unconscious, a theory many believe to be the most significant milestone of his career. ...

Causation and David Hume

More specifically, Hume argued that cause is the idea that one event makes another event inevitable and/or necessary (The Philosop...

Anthropological Genre of Ethnology

four seasons in which there is a planting, harvesting and barren time. MANDALAS AND GENERALIZATIONS ABOUT THE HUMAN CONDITION ...

Roland Barthes' Photography and Death

a preview of what was to become a major theme in Camera Lucida: In the final analysis, what I really find fascinating about photo...

The Wealthy and American Criticism

"aggregate" was benefiting in this period, however, others were flailing desperately in the ever-deepening economic waters just tr...

Civil Litigation and the Acquittal of Tyco's Mark Belnick

had been accused of failing to properly disclose more than $14 million in relocation loans to buy property in New York and Utah, a...