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Each criticized the foundationalist approach advocated by Russell. Rorty (1989, 87), for example, insisted:...

profit than seeking knowledge. The schools headmaster was Socrates, and Strepsiades hopes that Phidippides will be able to apply ...

especially apparent when critically examining Shakespeares historical play, Richard III and his final work, the dark comedy, The T...

not make up an ethical life. Rather, he based his ideas on his own ideas concerning reason, but he did so within the context of hi...

and the construction of "local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained" (19...

only from a scientific standpoint but from a philosophical and political standpoint as well. British philosopher John Lock...

believe in absolutes. Much of what the philosopher contends seems to provide support for that view. Aristotle says, in line with t...

in this work goes into the Great Families of Mythology and provides information on The House of Atreus, The Royal House of Thebes,...

frustrated at the rules and regulations that are only altered at the whim of elected school board members, but in effect rarely ch...

In order to explore his general theory, it pays to look at his Second Treatise of Civil Government. It is rather compelling and ...

live up to its promises. Mill realized that the male had practically unlimited power over the woman and that the institution of ...

Essentially, the allegory likens those who remain unaware of forms to prisoners chained in a cave, and they cannot turn their head...

is simply ludicrous (1983). Indeed, how can one say that there is peace when war could come about at some point? It is similar to ...

himself who willed that he should suffer (lines 5-8). In other words, Hardy pictures preferring a world such as the ancient Gre...

is angry she escaped and he is angry that he did not get what he wanted, sex from Pamina. This clearly establishes an attitude tow...

In this simple summary we see that the Wife of Bath is saying that while women want love and they want beauty and they obviously w...

divine perfection, but in more human terms as a willingness to learn from ones mistakes. Human beings are not gods; they are flaw...

of her father and her eventual release from her house, little is known of the first thirty years of her life in addition to the li...

all. However, Hamlet does not see it this way and becomes very angry with his mother for marrying Claudius. Because of this, Ham...

reference regarding a camel fitting through the eye of the needle. Certainly, Nietzsche did not mean to suggest anything beyond th...

who is a software programmer by day and a hacker known as Neo by night. Becoming increasingly disillusioned with his life, Neo se...

In five pages Lefebvre's and Mousnier's views on what contributed to the French uprisings of the seventeenth and eighteenth centur...

how things were effected, but rather, the investigation goes to why. One may glean, from reading this book, that America was prope...

fairness and justice (Rawls, 1958). Many of Rawls philosophies are reflective of those of other great thinkers who preced...

for Plato and are directly related to that capacity of understanding. Physical things of the world must, of necessity, have bodily...

However, Allen also makes the point that Platos attitude was at least partially due to his respect and fear of the powers of art o...

would affect others (Kahl, 2002). So then, it only makes sense given this framework that people in general tend to pursue that wh...

man being superior to another, the contradiction still stands. Despite some inadequacies in his work, the simplicity of Locke is ...

Cesare Lombroso was an Italian medical doctor, psychiatrist and criminologist, who created a sensation with his book that was publ...

warrior society that Beowulf invokes derives from these "newcomers" to the British Isles. Abrams, et al also state that in this wa...