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Essays 1441 - 1470
The views of Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle are examined in this consideration of the preference for hylemorphism over materialism i...
Power is behind all that we perceive, then the Higher Power would be a deceitful one. Descartes arrives at this conclusion becaus...
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...
In five pages this paper examines the French philosopher's text as it explains his approaches to recognizing knowledge that is 'tr...
In five pages the transcendence theory of Martin Heidegger is discussed and compared with those of Friedrich Nietzsche. Four sour...
constructed and the meaning made perfectly clear so that all understand what types of behavior will be tolerated and which will no...
highest truth and certainty I have learned either from the senses or through the senses" (Descartes 29). But he is quick to note ...
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...
Crises arise that usher in change, systems achieve equilibrium for a time and then begin to change again, leading to another round...
acknowledging it as the source from which the mind receives sensory information. However, Kant argued that the mind cannot know th...
In five pages a case study involving whether or not to have a baby or have an abortion is examined in an application of the theori...
the world, but only derive essence later. In other words, a human is nothing to start with, and the essence of the person comes fr...
for example, would exist even if there were no human beings there to see it, but not that colour was an independent spiritual form...
in his own personal progress at the cost of everything else. He was wholly supportive of the scientific community during the Enli...
manner in order to attain end-E" (Honderich, 1995, p. 436). For example, a person might resolve to pay a bill as soon as it is rec...
of veracity. This is because each segment of humanity is its own little universe and what is held to be truth in one section of th...
dilemma of a single woman who is part of what the politicians and social scientists refer to as a member of the "working poor" soc...
agree with Aristotles ideas, and see morality as a living concept, and something that should not be tampered with. What might Aris...
permission. Abraham Lincoln promoted the Platonic view in his Gettysburg Address in saying that the government should be "of the ...
Each criticized the foundationalist approach advocated by Russell. Rorty (1989, 87), for example, insisted:...
We can better understand this by invoking a comparison. A generalist would demand sameness in terms of how something functions ca...
in earlier times it was regarded only as the poor relation of quantitative research that nearly always was less reliable and far l...
of subjective satisfaction (Seifert, 2003). Moral goodness just is. One looks at a baby or a puppy and thinks that these living th...
In five pages Aristotle's concept of happiness with an emphasis upon a life of contemplation is discussed. Five sources are cited...
In five pages this paper considers due process and crime control perspectives in a consideration of gun control policy. Six sourc...
In seventeen pages this paper examines the philosophical concept of evil and then considers 'necessary evil' within the contexts o...
This 3 page paper gives a detailed analysis of Justice Thurgood Marshall's philosophical rejection of capital punishment,w hich he...
This paper consisting of six pages considers the influence John Dewey continues to exert on the system of public schools and on th...
In four pages this paper contrasts and compares these military theorists in a consideration of their works and the differences and...
In six pages this paper examines Tao in terms of its history and its primary principles are summarized. Seven sources are cited i...