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to be happy, but to be happy he has to know what happiness is and how to achieve it (Alfarabi, p. 35). Here we come to the idea of...

AIDS education is something tied to a disease that has only surfaced at the end of the twentieth century and may have no relevance...

to be "yes." Problems arise however when we try to make certain that we are expressing meanings unambiguously; Quine among others...

reason" (Schlumpf 59). In modern society, there are enormous pressures that tempt business people to take shortcuts in order to ...

in order to extract the location. While it may be distasteful and unconstitutional, it can also be argued as necessary. The tortur...

he defends himself well, Socrates is still found guilty and stoically accepts his fate, indicating that since only the gods are aw...

to break up that civilization into smaller units. The point being, love is doomed because society requires multiple, sanitized re...

interaction with the world, ourselves, and others. Our perceptual capacities are not fixed; they are not static or one-dimensiona...

once again began drawing air into his lungs illustrates how this is not necessarily a definitive component of being dead. As such...

persuasive arguments, Aristotle mentions three techniques: pathos, ethos and logos (What is logos?) "Pathos" (from which we get th...

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was that all humans are born with an inherent worth which he labeled human dignity (Mazur, 1993). He further felt that human dign...

culpable. It is true that many other nations, such as France, opposed the war effort in Iraq. Did the U.S. overstep its bounds? Wh...

the role it plays, in the cognitive system of which it is a part (Levin, 2004). Functionalism is an opinion about the nature of m...

She says: "The question should not be: Do we have something in common-reason, self-consciousness, a soul-with other animals? (With...

expected to develop some form of cancer "or another rapidly debilitating condition and well be dead within a year of getting the d...

(Kemerling, 2002). Lacking professional teacher training, Socrates elected to do some "free-wheeling" by partaking of spirited di...

the street ... must and will reflect our personal moral standards" (Reavley, 2001). Those moral standards, Reavley implies, must ...

obviously see elements of the man who wrote the story, for Kafka is often considered to be an individual who deeply examined his w...

body but the are not only of the body ("Rene," 2005). The mind controls these things. Mind also cannot be "thought without it thin...

steeled and a heart trans- formed into brass, so as to bear the weight of such responsibility" (Nietzsche, p.129). One can see tha...

human understanding. He saw the concept as being equated with something that exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transce...

possible fat man in that doorway; and again, the possible bald man in that doorway. Are they the same possible men, or two possibl...

of wildlife and marine life are being endangered as well. Business must make a better effort to solve pollution problems not simp...

sense of direction that otherwise would merely drift in subconscious thought, which also helps to apply a modicum of understanding...

and had been released some months earlier (Biodrowski). The novel, which has the subtitle of "The Modern Prometheus," is "a sort o...

one may see it as quasi-scientific determinism. Yet, from a Western point of view, Buddhism is considered to be indeterministic (A...

by the theory of monism (Turner). The greatest strength of monism appears to be its simplicity: it admits of only one underlying c...

in his account when he passed away. The email provider Yahoo claimed that due to a terms of service agreement, they could not allo...

knowledge has long been purported as the only viable means by which mankind truly knows how and if something exists; without empir...