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Comparison of Texts on History

In six pages the history texts Five Days in London, May 1940 by John Lukacs, The Coming Anarchy by Robert D. Kaplan, Cafe Europa b...

Slavenka Drakulic and Robert D. Kaplan's Historical Perspectives

In five pages this paper compares and contrasts Cafe Europa by Slavenka Drakulic and The Coming Anarchy by Robert D. Kaplan in a s...

Comparison of Pre First World War Artistic Modernism and 1920s European Modernism

any other international symbol, art strips away the barriers inherent to humanity. Indeed, Picassos Still Life speaks a language ...

Philosophers and Personal Responsibility

In five pages this paper examines the philosophies of Rene Descartes and Plato in a consideration of the mind and the soul, which ...

X Files, Personhood and a Disembodied Mind

In six pages this paper examines an X Files episode form 1998 in a consideration of whether or not personhood can be experienced b...

Financial Crises Correlations Between the United States and Asia

In twelve pages the 1990s' economic crisis in Asia is compared and contrasted with the great 1929 U.S. recession in terms of influ...

Immanuel Kant and John Locke on the Concept of Government

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the views of Immanuel Kant and John Locke on the concept of government as represen...

Contrasting Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America and Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club

In five pages this paper compares and contrasts what each author's intentions are in their respective works along with the sense o...

Society and Marriage According to Various Literary Interpretations

In 5 pages this paper contrasts and compares the marriage perspectives of Mary Astell and Margery Kempe and discusses how society ...

Female Protagonists in Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

In five pages this essay contrasts and compares sisters Marianne and Elinor Dashwood in a consideration of their similarities and ...

Educational Perspectives of Dewey, Jefferson, Mill, Kant, Rousseau, and Hume

The educational perspectives of these individuals are contrasted and compared in three pages. Two sources are cited in the biblio...

Man's Intellectual Reasoning Development an the Contributions of Aristotle, Socrates, and Plato

is often called the father of Western philosophy, reinforces a legal system that survives to this day in the United States, and in...

Antigone and the Old Testament

In 1178 Maimonides completed Mishneh Torah, what he had hoped would be a compete authoritative code of Jewish law (both Oral and W...

Existence of God in Swinburne, Rowe, and Hume

"experienced" internally in some manner, as well as externally via touch or logical use of the item in daily living. In thi...

Examining Suicide from a Fresh Perspective

suicide ideation is often aligned with a lack of clear thinking. Thus, suicide should not be prohibited or encouraged, but rather ...

John Locke and David Hume on Knowledge

One will of course possess an impression from the sight, and supposes that there is a causal relationship between the flames and t...

Causation and David Hume

More specifically, Hume argued that cause is the idea that one event makes another event inevitable and/or necessary (The Philosop...

Film Sliding Doors, Determinism, and Free Will

is, there is both free will and determinism. The idea that free will and determinism are one in the same is rare, but it seems ...

Memory Role and Personal Identity

Loftus report that visitors to Disneyland had come to the conclusion that they met Bugs Bunny, but the rabbit is actually a Warner...

Detailed Analysis of Plato's Cave Allegory

(Washington State University, 2004). Plato asserts that our perceptions are essentially "shadows" of real objects. In ot...

Knowing Truth That Has Not Been Proven

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...

Iron Giant Cartoon, Humanity, Personal Choices, and the Philosophies of David Hume, William Blake, and John Locke

giant metal man falling into the sea. Hogarth is the only one that believes him and rushes away to search in likely places for the...

God's Existence and the Teleological Method of David Hume

supporters of the argument from design see a babys perfect little fingers with unique fingerprints and the fact that the honey bee...

Subjectivist vs. Rationalist Philosophical Theories

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...

Influence of David Hume on Immanuel Kant

contends that Humes definition of "cause" (using reason to infer existence), as "a bastard of the imagination, impregnated by expe...

David Hume on Reason

at least, Hume is positing that reason does not have a very important role to play in life, thus, reason, to Hume, would be defini...

Carl L. Becker's Rejection of Popular Eighteenth-Century Philosophers

the chance to break free from such constraints. The global society was ready for a tremendous change in direction following the t...

Induction Problem and David Hume

Hume was often at odds with other philosophers when it came to his personal perception of human nature and the ways of life....

God's Existence and the Design Argument

from the Appearances of Nature (Beebe, 2002). In this text, Paley wrote: There cannot be design without a designer; contrivance wi...

Philosophy and Business Ethics

In five pages business ethics are examined through applications of theories by philosophers David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and John St...