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of the same) is "reason" rather than the self-conscious "I." One may then extend the concept from ethical ideas to morality, whic...

Camus relates the substance of the Greek myth and how Sisyphus was condemned to endlessly roll a rock up a hill in the underworld,...

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...

strive for bigger and better opportunities, to reach beyond what has become comfortable and consistent in order to attain that whi...

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...

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...

(Nietzsche, 1974). It does seem to be true that when someone supports old institutions and mainstays they are applauded by the lar...

well-being but our physical well-being also. For instance, Terry (54) tells us that music has been widely recommended as a techni...

In five pages Descartes' Second Meditation is explored in terms of his analysis of what the perception of melting beeswax would be...

This paper examines the true meaning of the very vague word, good. The author points out that the word has two separate and unique...

In five pages this paper examines pessimism and whether or not optimism exists in this philosophical consideration of Voltaire, Sc...

In twenty pages this paper examines Great Britain's post compulsory education from political, cultural, and socioeconomic perspect...

texts The Republic and Crito, Plato learned his lessons well. In both works, Plato theorizes what justice is through deductive re...

what Descartes believed to be the existence of humanity and humanitys understanding of what knowledge truly is. In a comparison of...

corporate, organized around a concept of ultimate reality" (9). The reality conjured by these beliefs, actions and experiences ca...

not merely things to be used to reach ones goal, but are sentient beings with worth beyond measure. The golden rule may be interp...

but in those areas where the student was lagging a remediation course was offered in-house for the student. This seems logical, si...

will a universal law" (Immanuel Kant). In ethics of choice, Kantian philosophy dictates that intention or consequences can ...

Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...

This, he asserted, was mans freedom of the will, in which people are able to determine their own choices, rather than be automatic...

acknowledging it as the source from which the mind receives sensory information. However, Kant argued that the mind cannot know th...

constructed and the meaning made perfectly clear so that all understand what types of behavior will be tolerated and which will no...

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...

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...

highest truth and certainty I have learned either from the senses or through the senses" (Descartes 29). But he is quick to note ...