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identifies Schopenhauers most distinctive contribution to philosophy as his "insistence that Will is more basic than thought to bo...
While Hume appears down to Earth and logical, he is, in a very general sense, a skeptic. He notes that there is a battle between r...
strive for bigger and better opportunities, to reach beyond what has become comfortable and consistent in order to attain that whi...
He sought not to try to make people feel any better about themselves or the world in which they lived aside from empowering them t...
the reader into the oppressive world of slavery. Indeed, it was the authors desire to bring attention to the injustices faced by ...
on actions, then the argument would end there. Utilitarianism, therefore, is their effect on society and the world at large. Actio...
If we accept the premise, therefore, that science is capable of defining physiological death then we must ask ourselves how do we ...
by Eastern religions. A "Master" discerns the attainment of religious enlightenment in his novices according to how a novice beh...
Stuart Mill (1806-1873) Mill.htm). An advocate of this particular perspective, "Popper thought that both Mill and Comte were wrong...
contributions to ethical and social theory" (Anonymous John Stuart Mill 1806-1873, 2002; MILL.HTM). In his work "Principles of ...
of the same) is "reason" rather than the self-conscious "I." One may then extend the concept from ethical ideas to morality, whic...
lying promise is something that is said in order to achieve a favorable outcome. What if someone has a gun to the victims childs h...
when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." And, for 20th century Catholic theologian Josef Pieper (1904-97), Gods role in...
the old mans money to the poor. While he fears being found out, when he is, the people not only forgive him, but elect him their n...
(2000) presents his argument, his thesis, in stating that "I want to raise and examine the possibility that, however much we came ...
corporate, organized around a concept of ultimate reality" (9). The reality conjured by these beliefs, actions and experiences ca...
done right and what potentially could go wrong, in the end one has to choose the model or models that most closely resemble ones o...
saying the above statement. The names change and the nature of the addiction changes with the substance, but the goal and reward ...
the post-Civil War period, which was one of unprecedented patronage for the arts from government and private sources, produced wor...
but in those areas where the student was lagging a remediation course was offered in-house for the student. This seems logical, si...
of medicine, law, and theology has been expanded tremendously, however. Now there are professionals in practically every field an...
will a universal law" (Immanuel Kant). In ethics of choice, Kantian philosophy dictates that intention or consequences can ...
In five pages this paper discusses how the U.S. Civil War was the result of competing philosophies of states rights vs. a centrali...
not merely things to be used to reach ones goal, but are sentient beings with worth beyond measure. The golden rule may be interp...
her actions as an individual and as a member of the military? Or is there a different moral principle at play? Only Hester can say...
to the average man who does not embark on philosophical pursuits, and does not wonder how the world began but accepts the explanat...
existence. Thus, he sees himself as something more than a victim. He simply has a less desirable fate than some of his peers. Yet,...
well-being but our physical well-being also. For instance, Terry (54) tells us that music has been widely recommended as a techni...
world, one would find the "ideal tree of which all trees which we see are copies, the ideal house and ideas of all other objects i...
most general - or universal - aspect of things" (Definition of Philosophy). These studies, the definition continues, are not carri...