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should he do? In an attempt to capture his youth, he sells his soul and instead of aging, the portrait ages in place of Dorians ow...

too saw that the people needed leadership. The general public was thought not quite capable of making the big decisions. While Mac...

doing whatever one wants, with no regard to law (Krause, 2000). If independence must be sacrificed in order to achieve political ...

Descartes, of course, is remembered as the "father of modern philosophy". A rationalist, Descartes was particularly concerned wit...

and Aristotle are philosophers who discuss virtue. Yet, Yu (1998) claims that when it comes to virtue, neither Aristotle or Confu...

is located in the brain, shouldnt he be thinking, Im inside looking at my body (Dennett). Unfortunately, he cannot make that switc...

and change. He did not perceive the world as having changed greatly, but instead perceived the same world in a much different lig...

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

In six pages Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes and Second Treatise of Civil Government by John Locke are discussed in an examination of h...

his or her own singular importance. "The ethical is the universal, and as such it is again the divine. One has therefore a right ...

collect itself (1966). As the modern world has been conditioned to this sort of thinking, it has now become problematic to imagin...

idea that concepts and forms had to begin somewhere. How does one know that they are looking at a pink, or a red, or a blue item? ...

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

be viewed as a doctrine where the useful is good and the determining consideration of right conduct should be the usefulness of it...

Virtuous action was defined by Aristotle as what a person with practical wisdom would choose. The golden mean, as defined by Ari...

that requires the transmission or transposition of the parts of those beings (1998). However, substances are simple unextended ent...

This research report looks at the ideas of these two philosophers through written works. Other works are explored such as those by...

In two pages this paper discusses Locke's Essay on Civil Government in terms of how the English political philosopher defined prop...

have much to do with capitalism but each theorist treats the subject differently. Weber expressed that capitalism did not just ...

or of material things. Berkeleys philosophical stance of immaterialism or idealism simply denied the existence of matter all toge...

In a paper consisting of five pages truth and reality are two of the components factored into a definition of philosophy as well a...

stereotype) of Jews throughout history reveals that while the Jewish people inhabit all socioeconomic levels, they tend to be succ...

In six pages this paper examines how the morality theories of these philosophers can be practically applied. Two sources are cite...

is, there is both free will and determinism. The idea that free will and determinism are one in the same is rare, but it seems ...

knowledge is not as important as faith. That is a significant difference between the two. At the same time, neither admits that hu...

the goal of his philosophy was to provide "common sense" (Honderich 754). Differing also from Descartes, Reid argued that the mind...

the body dies (Island of Freedom, 2003). Although Descartes saw the mind and body as two separate substances and also having diff...

The model also facilitated the a revision on the more traditional financial measures that had been used, for example the viewing o...

quarters. We can calculate these and then include the revenue in the last quartet to get the net revenue for each of the quarters....

then. He gets a very powerful and intriguing adventure when he attempts to pull a ladder into the ship, only to discover a man att...