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Hobbes believed that people, when left to their own governance, that is, without official laws and government, live in continual...

problems in the industry. Yet, while it is arguable as to the degree of safety problems inherent in the industry, it is safe to sa...

come into the picture or they leave home early. There is a lack of creativity and production. Perhaps the wife wants to add an add...

asks whether pluralism "is a philosophy for wimps," that is, "for those whose beliefs are too saturated with uncertain and ambival...

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...

later. In each, she focuses on what she regards as the two most significant values that must be preserved if social justice is to...

of science there are two branches which are epistemology and metaphysics (Honderich, 1995). Science makes up an important part of ...

In five pages this paper examines the Bourdieu and Kant philosophical views represented in these texts by Barker and Du Maurier. ...

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...

like the male philosophers of the day. She was the exception. While by and large, the people saw women as having a subservient pla...

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

in Modern Thought points to two cataclysmic moments in history that were responsible for altering the contemporary perceptions of ...

what was passing in the world around them, to the realm of re-presentative intellect. An external phenomenon is thus translated i...

exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transcendence then exceeds all human capacity. This concept is not foreign to the re...

where nothing detrimental occurs. In fact, Fast Company publishes ethical problems and lies that contributors send in on an annual...

power to enforce decisions (Lloyd, 2002). Hobbes also believed that an absolute monarchy was prefereable to other forms of govern...

problem is that in 1970, it was suggested that Nestle was profiting at the expense of third world mothers. While breast-feeding is...

the standards movement. This "default" philosophy emerges from a behaviorist, positivists background that places great emphasis...

can one know what is beautiful or what is ugly? There must be some sort of shared experience. Plato uses a cave allegory--somethi...

This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...

certainty. I might as well take a shower. I hurried, in an effort to at least reduce the amount of time I would walk into the door...

is real? Again, the Cartesian Cogito is something that resolves the problem for some. Still, this is a problem that many philosoph...

life fulfillment and that a disabled individual should be allowed to die because their quality of life will not allow them to find...

of knowledge through experience, and so is the basis for synthetic statements that are linked to a postiori knowledge. Kant used ...

of the world (1993). Yet, one can see this in action in smaller ways. Another way to look at the world is through the model called...

Hume presented his arguments in a pair of treatises that are still considered required reading for any student of Western philosop...

develops his inquiry into the contention to see if it holds up to scrutiny: SOCRATES: And when a jury is rightly convinced of fact...

morning and be blown up on a bus or go to a discotheque and be killed in an explosion. These are not unusual scenarios there. For ...