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Areopagitica by John Milton

fashion, as they order books burned and prohibited that they "fancied not" (1025). Then, Martin the Fifth instituted the a bull wh...

Economic Freedom and Its Benefits

economic freedom and then quantify them to reflect the degree to which they are present in a given economy or market. The EFI has...

Gods and Oedipus

Each revelation from the Oracle only confirms what Oedipus is beginning to understand: he has been at the mercy of the gods whims ...

Comparing Ideas of Mill and Nietzsche

And Nietzsche might agree. After all, if morality is a fluke, then everything is okay. Of course, in other writings, Nietzsche di...

Freedom of Speech and The United States v. Eichmann

because that is what provides the very essence of who we are as Americans. The United States v. Eichmann...

The Road to Mecca by Athol Fugard

This concept, in and of itself, is the fundamentally defining element to Miss Helens persistence to uphold her own existence in th...

Can God and Evil Co-exist

One of the questions that has plagued theologians, Biblical scholars, philosophers and others has to do with God and evil. How can...

Calvinism Genesis of Capitalism

The entitled topic represents one part of this paper, which discusses four philosophers. Weber proved his point that Calvinism pla...

Rawl's A Theory of Justice Opposed by Amartya Sen

This 3 page paper provides an overview of Rawls' 'A Theory of Justice," as well as a popular rebuttal from philosopher Amartya Sen...

THE STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF RAWLS' THEORY OF JUSTICE

1) Opportunities need to be open to all, regardless of background, birth or social class; 2) The best decisions for society...

Marx vs Castoriadis

freedoms, which, in effect "shook individuals in their political and social foundations." It ended the feudal system, and it drama...

The Influence of the Cave Allegory

distance. In some way one can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees ...

Ideas about Peace and War

theories abound, and this idea actually seemingly did spark speculation about other black leaders deaths, it seems that at the ver...

Heidegger & Nihilism

is the ability of human beings to question that is at the foundation of human nature. As this suggests, for Heidegger, Being is th...

Man and Technology: Three Views of Our Future

of sex and love. Harraway explores technology from a feminist perspective, from the perspective of how man and machine can blend ...

Charles Peirce's Account Of Truth And Reality In "How To Make Our Ideas Clear"

perception is that which we, as humans, have been trained to discern as a species, inasmuch as the certain quality of perception r...

Transitions During the Enlightenment Period

secular tone ("The Enlightenment," 2006). The eighteenth century would begin the Age of Reason where there was intellectual discov...

Hume's Ideas about the Distinct and Continued Existence of Objects

it is also the case that in general terms, people seem to believe what they see. They do not see atoms and they do see a solid mas...

Aristotle & Hume On Ethics

this sentiment and states that it is good when each individual realizes their talents and abilities to their fullest. Speaking in ...

Ethics: Utilitarianism

the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation" (Jeremy Bentham, 2006). This simple co...

A Fictitious Discussion Between Hobbes and Kant

of his own life; and consequently, of doing anything which, in his own judgement and reason, he shall conceive to be the aptest me...

Anselm, Aquinas, Descartes/Existence of God

conclusion that "a being than which none greater can be conceived can be conceived to be greater than it is," which is "absurd" (A...

FIDES ET RATIO

understanding of truth and communicating the truth of the Gospel to those who do not yet know it" (Pope John Paul II, Introduction...

Can Free Will And Determinism Coexist?

life progresses and is, therefore, under the guidance of peripheral forces. Rachel (2004) asserts mankinds business on eart...

The Purpose of Life and Personal Fulfillment

didnt have a term equal to "evolution," several of them deduced that things originated in other things; for instance "Thales asser...

Work, Is It Essential for Human Flourishing?

is it essential for human flourishing? The online edition of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary [http://www.merriam-webster.com] defin...

Plato's Republic - The Recurring Themes

student introduce and summarize Platos "allegory of the cave". The allegory of the cave, as it is commonly known, is a dialogue be...

Life and Philosophy of Denis Diderot

considered his philosophy to be heresy. Abbey (2004) notes that the work which gained Diderot the charge of disseminating pornogr...

Arguments of John Stuart Mill in On Liberty

that appraisal in terms of wrong, immoral, or wicked is appropriate: only in this area that deterrence and retribution as they ope...

Socrates and Odysseus

is less important than the conversation which takes place, and since the two individuals are from periods in Greek history several...