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Essays 1861 - 1890

Subjective Truth and Soren Kierkegaard's Philosophy

by Eastern religions. A "Master" discerns the attainment of religious enlightenment in his novices according to how a novice beh...

Natural Law and Saint Thomas Aquinas

unusual for a theologian (St. Thomas Aquinas, 2002). Aquinas made many significant contributions to philosophy and specifically i...

Nature of Causation According to David Hume

true of actions as well as other events, not in order to argue that determinism is compatible with actions being freely performed ...

Skepticism and Knowledge According to John Locke

their Doubts, and to confirm them at last in a perfect Skepticism" (47). Locke...

'Lying Promise' and Philosophy

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...

Romantic Period Artistic Beauty

ability to allow us the opportunity to interpret the rational through the concrete forms presented in art. Hegel believed that ...

Examining Catholic Church Unity

political structure of the church which has been divinely inspired (Armstrong, 2002). The Authority of the Bishops in Catholici...

God's Existence and Rene Descartes' Meditation III

conception of what is perceived. Some ideas appear to be innate, while others appear to originate elsewhere and come to the mind i...

Comparative Analysis of the Disciplines of Philosophy, Literature, Religion, and Science

most general - or universal - aspect of things" (Definition of Philosophy). These studies, the definition continues, are not carri...

Similarities and Differences That Exist Among Global Religions

that their God will ultimately rule the world, that the Jews have established the doctrines of faith and hope as the "two most pro...

Yogesh Chadha Gandhi A Life

and rely on previous works and historical documents to formulate a guideline. Since the publication of the entire 90 volumes of wo...

Gender in the Workplace Examined

society have we become more sophisticated? Or has our language just kept pace with our activities? The idealist, sometimes label...

A Philosophical Approach to Animal Rights

In five pages the categorical imperative of Immanuel Kant and utilitarian philosophy of John Stuart Mill are contrasted with the c...

Doubt Philosophy of Rene Descartes

do not assert any observation sentences (Yancy, 1995). And in fact, science and philosophy truly have a lot in common. Both scient...

Ralph Ellison's Philosophy in The Invisible Man

standing and he is awarded a full scholarship to a prestigious black college. This of course doesnt last long, as through a serie...

Nietzsche's Philosophy and Essays

that is good. The sun is going down, and it is cold, so that is bad. Evil is something much worse than bad. Obviously, a setting s...

Philosophical Concepts Regarding Capital Punishment

In four pages the death penalty is analyzed within the concept of various philosophies such as 'an eye for an eye' and provides an...

Philosophy and Ethics of Capital Punishment

Inn five pages an arguement supporting the death penalty is presented no in terms of religion or the law but on a classical philos...

Nina Zaragoza's 'Rethinking Language Arts'

strengths and power of all children, rather than the weaknesses (Zaragoza, 1997) Perfectionism is an issue because it distances th...

Learning Disabilities Among Adolescents

This paper consists of an essay containing ten pages that considers the focus of adolescents with learning disabilities from an ed...

Environmental Consciousness and the 1989 Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

In eight pages this paper assesses the moral and legal responsibilities of Exxon regarding the oil spill with the philosophy of Im...

Christianity and Friedrich Nietzsche

In four pages this paper discusses Christianity as perceived in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche and described in On the Gene...

Alasdair MacIntyre's View of Virtue and Academic Dishonesty

In this paper consisting of five pages the philosophy MacIntyre describes in 'After Virtue' is applied to the ethics of academic d...

Autonomy and Immanuel Kant

In eight pages this paper discusses the concept of autonomy within the context of Immanuel Kant's philosophy and in the text Angel...

Dr. Maria Montessori's Educational Philosophies

In five pages this paper discusses the Montessori educational method in a comparative analysis with Mill's, Hegel's, and Marx's ph...

Learning's Theoretical Components

from personal experience, including elements of culture; 3. the development of learning through the function of the brain is relat...

Dropouts Among Gifted and At Risk Students

In six pages it is argued that students who are gifted, at risk are more likely to quit school than their peers who are not gifted...

Issue of Community Policing

a proactive partnership between law enforcement agencies, community, the DAs office, and public and private groups (Weinstein, 199...

Morality According to Auguste Comte and John Stuart Mill

place of divine forces and natural phenomenon is seen in a depersonalized way. The final stage is the third stage of positive scie...

A Consideration of the Question Why Should I be Moral?

In this four page essay the writer turns to the philosophies of August Comte for an answer to the enduring question of why moralit...