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certainty. I might as well take a shower. I hurried, in an effort to at least reduce the amount of time I would walk into the door...

is real? Again, the Cartesian Cogito is something that resolves the problem for some. Still, this is a problem that many philosoph...

ideas. As we shall soon see, through these speeches Plato seems to have reasoned out how it is that mankind make their way from th...

of these seemingly paradoxical perspectives on the nature of society and the role of the individual in society. Plato appears to ...

However, we can also argue that the proof f this truth made no difference to whether the belief was true, being true even before i...

Introduction The issues surrounding abortion are complex to say the least. People are polarized on the issue...

childhood, during his early life, Socrates was a sculptor, following in the footsteps of his father, Sophroniscus (Wikpedia, 2003)...

Hume presented his arguments in a pair of treatises that are still considered required reading for any student of Western philosop...

conditions and development; contrarily, humanity may also perceive the world as a more direct understanding based upon their spiri...

life fulfillment and that a disabled individual should be allowed to die because their quality of life will not allow them to find...

it, these are all abstractions on the concept of the apple in the first place. These notions could not be made without the immedi...

for social control and the exercise of power, on the other. All government, indeed, all institutions of society, exist along this ...

the time, today people are faced with decisions and can decide to be honest or face dire consequences. Journalists today sometimes...

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...

avoids trying to force the same concept of right and wrong upon all of the worlds societies, objectivism believes there is conside...

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

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

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...

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

This 3 page paper gives a detailed analysis of Justice Thurgood Marshall's philosophical rejection of capital punishment,w hich he...

In seventeen pages this paper examines the philosophical concept of evil and then considers 'necessary evil' within the contexts o...

In this paper consisting of seven pages balance in terms of community interest and self interest are explored as are potential con...

In eight pages this paper discusses reconstructionism, progressivism, essentialism, and perennialism philosophical approaches to p...

In five pages this paper examines ethical objectivism and ethical relativism from a philosophical perspective. Two sources are ci...

concept of beauty, and or, justice. To be able to re-cognize these, one must have the memory of the idea which in an intellectual...

the nineteenth century, abortion was seen as the only recourse for women who had become pregnant due to being lured into the bed o...

In five pages this paper contrasts the philosophical perspectives of Immanuel Kant with John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism. There ...

In a paper consisting of five pages the concepts of human good, the 'doctrine of the mean,' and 'phronesis' as presented in Books ...

regarded as being little more than attempting to keep a pig satisfied. Because man has the intellectual capacity for reason, he s...

In twenty pages U.S. health care is examined within philosophical, legal, and historical contexts to evaluate the effects of vario...