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

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

the street ... must and will reflect our personal moral standards" (Reavley, 2001). Those moral standards, Reavley implies, must ...

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

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

like the male philosophers of the day. She was the exception. While by and large, the people saw women as having a subservient pla...

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

When Hamlet returns home, he is greeted with what he is convinced is his fathers ghost. After identifying himself, the ghost prom...

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

was that all humans are born with an inherent worth which he labeled human dignity (Mazur, 1993). He further felt that human dign...

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...

She says: "The question should not be: Do we have something in common-reason, self-consciousness, a soul-with other animals? (With...

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

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

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...

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...

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 ...

AIDS education is something tied to a disease that has only surfaced at the end of the twentieth century and may have no relevance...

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...

there a time when an individuals interests supersede those of the masses? These are ethical questions posed each and everyday thr...

information we get today, seems to argues such things as the benefits of something but the dangers of that same item. Today people...

it, these are all abstractions on the concept of the apple in the first place. These notions could not be made without the immedi...

conditions and development; contrarily, humanity may also perceive the world as a more direct understanding based upon their spiri...

Hume presented his arguments in a pair of treatises that are still considered required reading for any student of Western philosop...