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Knowing Truth That Has Not Been Proven

However, we can also argue that the proof f this truth made no difference to whether the belief was true, being true even before i...

Capital Punishment and American Political Changes

be the greater injustice. It can be contended that Socrates was correct, that the death penalty is an important tool for insuring...

Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

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

Revolution Justification Argued by John Locke

what he actually did. At the same time, it is not as if this philosopher threw out the basic tenets of reasoning. He did find it n...

Honesty and Ethics in Philosophy

commandment "thou shalt not kill", for example, are forced to re-examine their views in the light of military service in wartime, ...

Developing a Personal Education Philosophy

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

Greek Culture and the Evolution of Science

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

Philosophical Analysis on the Illegality of Extortion

exactly? Wikipedia defines it as follows: " Extortion is a criminal offense, which occurs when a person obtains money, behaviour, ...

Insights and Concepts Regarding Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Text Analysis of 'Evil in Modern Thought An Alternative History of Philosophy' by Susan Neiman

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

Overview of Perception

are the natural order of things. Are there coincidences, or do no coincidences exist? Much again, has to do with how a person perc...

Reunification of Korea

of Korea and World Affairs makes a very persuasive case, for instance. His article which is entitled "Korea and the Myth of Cloni...

Mind Philosophy

In fifteen pages this paper examines the philosophies of the mind developed by Jaegwon Kim, Paul Churchland, and David Chalmers in...

Both Sides of the Euthanasia Issue

for a living being, that decision is made for the wrong reasons. By and large, people mean well and want to do the right thing for...

Philosophical Beliefs of Malcolm X

In eight pages this paper examines Malcolm X in a consideration of his philosophical principles. Three sources are cited in the b...

Phenomonology of Spirit by Georg Hegel

In nine pages this paper provides an analysis of Hegel's philosophical masterwork in a consideration of its purpose and structure....

Knowledge and the Views of the Empiricists and the Rationalists

In eleven pages this paper defines rationalism and empiricism in a consideration of the philosophical views of Berkeley, Hume, Loc...

Science, Philosophy, and God's Existence

Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...

2000 Case of Conjoined Twins and Legal Alternatives

II. Facts of the Case The case in question was presented to Lord Justice Ward, Lord Justice Brooke and Lord Justice Robert Wal...

Liberty and Autonomy According to Immanuel Kant

past times are given (or as he put it more cautiously, "presupposed") in the present time. It is possible, according to Kant, tha...

Contemporary Society and Classical Theory

tendencies within society and the fact that people are far too concerned with their own well being to fend for those who cannot fe...

Basic Element Ideologies of Philosophy

and Anaximenes (Is Philosophy Possible?). However, there were a great many others who contributed to the mainstream of postulate...

Overview of Cybersquatting

without her permission, some wonder why others make a big deal about domain names that are only similar to a particular company na...

Opposite Characters Zorba and the Narrator in Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis The Antithetical Characters, the Narrator and Zorba in ' “Zorba the Greek”

as action vs. inaction, doer vs. writer and philosopher, and primitivism vs. modernism. The erudite English narrator of Zorba the...

Philosophy and Pessimism

In five pages this paper examines pessimism and whether or not optimism exists in this philosophical consideration of Voltaire, Sc...

German Middle Ages and Philosopher Leo Strauss

hearts of those he represented. It was Strauss ongoing quest to delve into the deepest recesses of German intellectuals and polit...

M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang and Cultural Illusions

In a paper consisting of 5 pages the ways in which this play reflects Eastern and Western philosophical conflict are examined in a...

Social Darwinism in American Thought by Richard Hofstadter

In five pages this paper presents an analysis of Richard Hofstadter's philosophical consideration of 19th century Social Darwinism...

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

In five pages this paper examines how war's realities and intrusions have cemented contemporary society's philosophical foundation...

Overview of the Honesty Concept

examine the answer before given. Will the effects of the honesty truly hurt the other individual? Before answering such a question...