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

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

our manner of interaction with the world, ourselves, and others. Our perceptual capacities are not fixed; they are not static or ...

the text should fit the music, not the other way around. His opera, La Nozza de Figaro, while following the parameters of the comi...

top the list. The Catholic Church is often quoted as having said, "Give me a child until he is seven and he will always be Catholi...

It is in the Second Meditation, however, that the apparent flaw in his logic appears and gives rise to the Cartesian Circle. In th...

guessing his parents. An eight year old may argue that it is proper for him to go to a particular event by himself, but his parent...

is characterized in a particular way; Sartre argues that "conflict is the original meaning of being-for- others." (Baron, 2002, PG...

In five pages society's incorporation of religion is discussed in terms of several philosophical views that include mainstream rel...

of the group. Some groups, as in organization, are sometimes referred to as parties, Weber seems to state. Mostly, parties aim fo...

of the Catholic Church. MacIntyre introduces his principal thesis in Whose Justice? Which Rationality? by pointing out that form...

education is still substantially elevated in contemporary culture. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees virtue as choice and so mora...

highest truth and certainty I have learned either from the senses or through the senses" (Descartes 29). But he is quick to note ...

speaker is Philo, a religious skeptic (Johnson 266). The discussion is chiefly between Philo and Cleanthes, with occasional remar...

youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...

concept of beauty, and or, justice. To be able to re-cognize these, one must have the memory of the idea which in an intellectual...

social order and how it was best managed. The founder of this school of though; Confucius, also known as Kong Zi or Master Kong, l...

2002). It is the dominant religion in India and Nepal Dating back to prehistoric times, it is no surprise that Hinduism has had a...

to living their lives at the mercy of their rulers. The vote for colonial democracy was a vote for the freedoms that are intrinsi...

trade. Barbaric pursuits held no interest, and the Chinese certainly knew their medicine and culture were vastly superior. ...

the ability to learn nursings technical complexities and already have full command of ethical values to the point that the can act...

that conscious experience is common at many levels of animal life, and Nagel (1974) uses the assumption that non-human animal form...

Republic, 2002). Therefore, according to this theory, knowledge of anything and understanding of anything comes from examination ...

Indeed, one might readily surmise that Plato believed man was a product of how "own imperfect understanding of nature, of our igno...

This 3 page paper gives a detailed analysis of Justice Thurgood Marshall's philosophical rejection of capital punishment,w hich he...

In four pages the death penalty is analyzed within the concept of various philosophies such as 'an eye for an eye' and provides an...

In seventeen pages this paper examines the philosophical concept of evil and then considers 'necessary evil' within the contexts o...

In eight pages this paper discusses reconstructionism, progressivism, essentialism, and perennialism philosophical approaches to p...

assignment to the highest post in the state which could be obtained by a commoner such as himself (Owen, 1997). In...

In five pages Arthur Waley's text is applied to a discussion of Confucianism, Taoism, and Legalism within the context of categoriz...