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bits of philosophy. For example, transcendental meditation is thought by some westerners as being a way one opens the door to the ...

In seven pages this chapter is discussed in terms of how the author portrayed the philosophical influences of such theorists as Hu...

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

as action vs. inaction, doer vs. writer and philosopher, and primitivism vs. modernism. The erudite English narrator of Zorba the...

In five pages a philosophical explanation of world events is attempted and the Pakistani position following the World Trade Center...

How evil evolved in Christian beliefs is the focus of this paper consisting of ten pages and how evil has changed in terms of soci...

and Anaximenes (Is Philosophy Possible?). However, there were a great many others who contributed to the mainstream of postulate...

In five pages this research paper considers Hume's philosophical text in an overview of its structure and main points. Six source...

In five pages this report discusses Plato's dialogues in terms of how Socrates regarded his philosophical role and how he was pres...

without her permission, some wonder why others make a big deal about domain names that are only similar to a particular company na...

the supposedly modern invention of "stress. They dreamed of retreating to a simpler life in the countryside where they could be o...

knowledge by comparing the encoding of conceptually related co-occurrences with the encoding of conceptually unrelated co-occurren...

In nineteen pages this paper discusses the philosophical education of teenager Sophie Amundsen in Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder'...

In seven pages the texts Eternal Life? Life After Death As a Medical, Philosophical, and Theological Problem by Hans Hung and The...

In six pages this paper examines these two philosophical schools of knowledge with the categorical imperative of Immanuel Kant and...

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

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

long and interesting historical evolution, and its origins are largely responsible for the reluctance of allopathic medical profes...

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...

philosophers and playwrights, addressed themselves to the reality of the absurdity of life and argued that that its reality should...

cosmological argument. As mentioned above, an ontological approach uses a deductive argument which "claims that its premises can b...

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

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 all the claims that lack evidence, none are as morally immense or elusive as whether or not God exists. Supporters contend the...

"the agent ought to promote the self above other values" (Moseley, 2006). This is not as ugly as it sounds: it goes all the way ba...

of these seemingly paradoxical perspectives on the nature of society and the role of the individual in society. Plato appears to ...

However, we can also argue that the proof f this truth made no difference to whether the belief was true, being true even before i...

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