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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 ...

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...

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

normal children do. However, these tasks that ordinary children dont think twice about, offer sincere and daunting challenges to t...

it, these are all abstractions on the concept of the apple in the first place. These notions could not be made without the immedi...

horrible situations such as one that would deem them a "vegetable" do have some thinking capacity perhaps. Yet, is a disembodied m...

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

course of action is often jumbled. Is the patient cognizant enough to make the correct choices? Many issues come into play when a...

who could argue with that idea? Of course, capital punishment is an ongoing debate and one that has been around for centuries. Als...

also be allowed to have their own private property. In Aristotles belief, man is inherently born sinful. Because of this ...

contradictory, which is why he is so controversial. One can take the meaning of Mills writings to suggest that individuality rules...

the only way to arrive at this point, he seems to be saying, is to carefully examine anything that one believes with the yardstick...

doubt and thought. If he thinks, then he exists: at least, his mind exists, since what he knows of his body is dependent, again, o...

here on Earth. This of course, did not go over well with the Church who was used to organizing everyones life on Earth. Reason, th...

consider that if an entity, such as a nation, is to grow and become prosperous there will be enemies and as such perhaps war is es...

education, Aquinas was exposed to the work of the ancient Greek philosophers. Throughout his writing , Aquinas worked out a relati...

there is continuity through time in terms of personal identity and her doubt about her own continuing identity is contradicted by...

and Cavaliers differ somewhat from those that are associated with Europe. What we most often remember in America is the differenc...

exist myriad philosophies by which people live their lives, which help maintain order and a sense of direction that otherwise woul...

the idea that there are reasons for implementing law beyond the idea of just maintaining law and order. Other supporters of positi...

Many contend that while God is all good, man has free will and brings the suffering on himself. At the same time, animals cannot r...

tendencies within society and the fact that people are far too concerned with their own well being to fend for those who cannot fe...

not merely things to be used to reach ones goal, but are sentient beings with worth beyond measure. The golden rule may be interp...

was changing in terms of philosophy. John Lockes The Second Treatise of Civil Government is rather compelling and in fact, free ch...

Theravada Buddhism was the original form, which was based on lengthy meditation and required...

always considered as an end in himself" (35). In other words, this man would ultimately be persuaded not to take his own life by ...

Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...

simple to Descartes, so simple it needs no argument. He basically says that as long as one is thinking, one exists. To Descartes, ...

While Hume appears down to Earth and logical, he is, in a very general sense, a skeptic. He notes that there is a battle between r...