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other words, lets say that someone came along and said that the sky was falling and that it was a miracle! Basically what Hume is...

contradictory, which is why he is so controversial. One can take the meaning of Mills writings to suggest that individuality rules...

also be allowed to have their own private property. In Aristotles belief, man is inherently born sinful. Because of this ...

education, Aquinas was exposed to the work of the ancient Greek philosophers. Throughout his writing , Aquinas worked out a relati...

consider that if an entity, such as a nation, is to grow and become prosperous there will be enemies and as such perhaps war is es...

doubt and thought. If he thinks, then he exists: at least, his mind exists, since what he knows of his body is dependent, again, o...

the only way to arrive at this point, he seems to be saying, is to carefully examine anything that one believes with the yardstick...

defines pornography, which is that they do not know what it is, but they know it when they see it (11). Similarly, it is not out o...

charges of impiety and corruption of youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens ("Socrates," 2003). While this ph...

This is found in Descartes work Meditations and is referred to as substance dualism, which is also known as Cartesian interactioni...

We can better understand this by invoking a comparison. A generalist would demand sameness in terms of how something functions ca...

should be used to silence the opinions of others makes the implied assumption that his opinions are infallible. Mill grants that i...

He and a group of utilitarians formed a small Utilitarian Society based on many of the writings of Bentham. His many works appeare...

the fetus. Pro-choice individuals often argue that the fetus is nothing more than a part of the womans body, with no more signific...

world, few governments would allow either situation to exist. Yet, it would be troubling for anyone to be completely dominated by ...

political ends, one should do so through peace and peaceful activism, and not through violence. There were many other philosophica...

is anguish all the time, but there is also a sense of joy at the realization that one is inextricably bound with another. This sen...

to attain a better existence for itself, it has inadvertently caused a domino effect when it comes to such personal pursuits. It ...

Moltmann's ideas are used to incite discussion on time and space issues in this paper of fourteen pages with time defined and the ...

and nurses often object to actively participating in active euthanasia on the basis of their professional codes which explicitly p...

2002, p.PG). The author explains that the things Occidentalists hate about the West are not just the ones that inspire hatred ; so...

that when things were fully developed, and had naturally reached their conclusion - or ending - they were simply following their n...

anti-discrimination legal issues and laws, equal rights protection, and the newer "discipline" of modern and critical race theory....

with most of the guests as a large part of his life had been shaped by political factors. When he was...

action should be judged in terms of whether or not that act brings the "greatest good" to the "greatest number" (Frost, 1962, p. 9...

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

Brian Vickers portrays Plato as an intellectual Odysseus, stealthily stealing the rhetorical arsenal of the sophists and using it ...

He didnt believe that going to church necessarily related to a relationship with God. He felt that church almost got in the way o...

simple to Descartes, so simple it needs no argument. He basically says that as long as one is thinking, one exists. To Descartes, ...

does not love and who is better than twenty years older than her. Then, his son goes into the future son-in-laws bank and manages ...