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2001). In addition to a belief in nothing, nihilists often have an impulse to destroy perhaps anything that is based on a belief s...
patient, but it could serve to avoid having the same thing happen again in the future. Other Facts, Options and Consequences ...
what Descartes believed to be the existence of humanity and humanitys understanding of what knowledge truly is. In a comparison of...
texts The Republic and Crito, Plato learned his lessons well. In both works, Plato theorizes what justice is through deductive re...
In five pages this paper examines pessimism and whether or not optimism exists in this philosophical consideration of Voltaire, Sc...
This paper examines the true meaning of the very vague word, good. The author points out that the word has two separate and unique...
but in those areas where the student was lagging a remediation course was offered in-house for the student. This seems logical, si...
not merely things to be used to reach ones goal, but are sentient beings with worth beyond measure. The golden rule may be interp...
corporate, organized around a concept of ultimate reality" (9). The reality conjured by these beliefs, actions and experiences ca...
This, he asserted, was mans freedom of the will, in which people are able to determine their own choices, rather than be automatic...
Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...
will a universal law" (Immanuel Kant). In ethics of choice, Kantian philosophy dictates that intention or consequences can ...
In five pages Descartes' Second Meditation is explored in terms of his analysis of what the perception of melting beeswax would be...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares Socrates' views on morality with those of Friedrich Nietzsche as expressed in Birt...
reason (Anonymous, 2001, April 16). Utilitarianism Utilitarianism, on the other hand, is an approach to morality that was devel...
have groomed themselves for heaven. They have made sure to live clean lives so their souls will be saved. Agnostics and atheists e...
In five pages business ethics are examined through applications of theories by philosophers David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and John St...
Hume presented his arguments in a pair of treatises that are still considered required reading for any student of Western philosop...
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...
In order to explore his general theory, it pays to look at his Second Treatise of Civil Government. It is rather compelling and ...
It is further rather specific in that it notes particular parts of history which ultimately culminates in a state of communism (19...
an almost detached amusement. He describes them rushing about, in a hurry to get to work and to work as hard as they can. However,...
believed that everything we had heard to the contrary from the Martin Luther Kings and the Roy Wilkinses and the Whiteny Youngs wa...
childhood, during his early life, Socrates was a sculptor, following in the footsteps of his father, Sophroniscus (Wikpedia, 2003)...
did the so-called "technostructure" - the idea that technology can have an impact on the economy (Landry, 1998). Furthermo...
to immigration reform, attacking affirmative action programs, welfare reform and tort reform (1996). Joshua Murachik, quoting Eliz...
strive for bigger and better opportunities, to reach beyond what has become comfortable and consistent in order to attain that whi...
Camus relates the substance of the Greek myth and how Sisyphus was condemned to endlessly roll a rock up a hill in the underworld,...
of that century, the French philosopher, Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) developed his metaphysical theories known as "occasionali...
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...