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Unity, Being, and Becoming According to the Philosophers

can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees it as symbolic of humans o...

Sensual Inquiry of Philosopher Rene Descartes

a desire to find out something that is known for sure. It is of course hard to know anything is certain. Some people today questio...

Plato's Contribution to Understanding Philosophy and Philosophers

academy the first university of its type, he was able to influence minds of the next generation and proliferate his ideas and meth...

Choosing a Philosopher

quickly taking over the world, leaving no room for anything else" (Williams, Dustin and McKenney, 2004). In his view, we were leav...

"Sling Blade"

boy who have taken him into their home, and he grows ever intolerant of Doyles inhumane behavior - the same behavior he endured hi...

The Pre-Socratic Philosophers and Their Search for Explanation

why so many people had to suffer. No matter the cause, the gods were not looked on with the reverence they had once enjoyed, and t...

A Philosopher Dialogue

guidance that gives meaning for man. Rather, as he explains, mans actions and intellectual activity seem to provide meaning. This ...

Ancient Greek Philosophers

Aristotles concrete, scientific theories are more relevant than Platos deductive and abstract ideology. Aristotle believed...

The Problem of Isolation as Evaluated by Existentialist Philosophers

is aligned with the fact that people are alone all of the time because no one can experience what they are experiencing exactly. I...

The Child As A Moral Philosopher By Kohlberg

children simply adopt and internalize the standards they are taught by their parents but Kohlberg found that children make moral j...

Carl L. Becker's "The Heavenly City Of The Eighteenth-Century Philosophers"

Christianity was based upon a vast compilation of both positive and negative influences acquired from the short-sightedness of pow...

Life and Works of Scottish Philosopher David Hume

In ten pages Hume's life, works, and writings are considered including his Treatise of Human Nature, with an assessment of his inf...

Pre-Socratic Philosophers as Compared with Later Thinkers

of fire (The New York Times, 2008). He lived during the late fifth century BC (The New York Times, 2008). The Eleatic school for i...

Compare and Contrast Beloved by Toni Morrison and Silko by Leslie Marmon Ceremony

This 10 page paper compares and contrasts the novel Beloved by African- American author Toni Morrison and Ceremony, by Native Amer...

"On The Road" And "Easy Rider" - Meaning Of Travel

for as long as it may take to complete the search. All along the route, the two men are constantly being placed in contrasting po...

Educational Equity And Diversity: Technology And The Digital Divide

for this special group with the intervention of technological advancement in the school setting. Current generations of exception...

The Relationship Between Technology And Human Freedom

minds and bodies has become somewhat of a hobby with the presence of such technology as mood-altering drugs and cosmetic surgery (...

A Comparison of the Autobiographies of Benjamin Franklin, Mary Rowlandson, & Olaudah Equinao

This paper compares and contrasts the lives of three influential early Americans. The themes of freedom, faith, and inspiration in...

Literature and the Freedom Concept

In four pages this paper examines how personality is affected by freedom in this analysis of Toni Morrison's 'Beloved' and Margare...

Dred Scott v. Sandford Decision Examined

In three pages this essay supports Dred Scott with an argument based upon freedom constitutional rights and argues that the Suprem...

New York Times v. Sullivan, the Press, and Freedom of Speech

In three pages this essay examines freedom of speech as it pertains to the press and this famous case and the liability or lack th...

Terrorism and The First Amendment

the correlation between terrorist activities and what has been described as "hate speeches."1 In order for terrorist behaviors to...

Leonard Levy's The Establishment Clause

In five pages this paper discusses Levy's conclusion that Congress's view of religious freedom was broad and that government was p...

Supreme Court and RFRA Overturning

In sixteen pages this paper examines the implications of the June 25, 1997 overturning of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. ...

Morals and Immanuel Kant

In five pages this paper discusses morality in a consideration of Immanuel Kant's theories in an examination of the universal free...

Chapters Two and Four of Utilitarianism by J.S. Mill

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

Comparison Between Karl Marx and John Stuart Mill

In five pages this paper compares the perspectives on individuality and freedom expressed by Karl Marx with Friedrich Engels in Th...

American Religious Freedom and the Puritans

In five pages this paper examines the Puritans in America and how the concept of religious freedom as a double standard. Four sou...

Parallels Between the Roman Empire's Fall and the US from 1946 to 1970

This research paper consisting of four pages considers the parallels that exist between these two civilizations with politics, eco...

Antebellum America and the Advantages of Slavery

In five pages this paper discusses that slavery was preferable to the slave and slave owner of the antebellum American South to fr...