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In two pages, 2 essays analyzing Candide by Voltaire focus on the author's philosophies regarding concepts such as fate and God. ...

This is a direct attack on Leibniz, who was regarded as a scholar in the fields of metaphysics, theology, and the cosmos. The phi...

This paper examines the political beliefs of Niccolo Machiavelli, with an emphasis on his beliefs regarding evil in politics. Thi...

In five pages this report contrasts and compares these scholars views on science and religion. Three sources are cited in the bib...

are the most successful in terms of influencing educational development and learner outcomes. As a component of my educational p...

It exists as one of the most effective representations of the progression from ignorance to knowledge and knowledge to wisdom. Th...

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

commandment "thou shalt not kill", for example, are forced to re-examine their views in the light of military service in wartime, ...

and religious background and beliefs, as well as how the health/illness continuum works within the framework of their life. "Env...

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

used to understand present and future situations. Interestingly, the author points out that when taking the models of socialism an...

institution of marriage, and the influence that family structures, including relationship triangles, have on individuals. Because...

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

would be no hope of redemption or change. Frankl supports this position by contending that mans search for meaning "is the primar...

by way of recognition toward such shortcomings that humanity could overcome this "profound error" (Nehamas, 1994, p. 40), diligent...

upon an instructor who cannot handle the task. However, those who are called in to substitute for the AWOL educators provide an e...

therapeutic manner (Tourville and Ingalls, 2003). This relationship may refer to a single individual, or the "person" may be a sma...

1999, p. 104+) - believed children are not merely a collection of empty vessels waiting for information to fill the void, but rath...

Even in the absence of hard and fast codes of ethics such as those that exist for some professions, there are certain basic guidel...

universal laws? Clearly, they can sometimes, but other times they would not be thought of in such a manner. John Stuart Mill on th...

when it is expressed as a love of virtue, and justice when it is considered as one of many virtues. For Hobbes, self-interest "ta...

gear pedagogy accordingly, politicians, policymakers and the public at-large are still "stuck" in the old paradigm, which states t...

(Kemerling, 2002). Lacking professional teacher training, Socrates elected to do some "free-wheeling" by partaking of spirited di...

human understanding. He saw the concept as being equated with something that exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transce...

system in ancient Greece wherein a woman had a protector (kyrios) or one who watched over them. This was either a brother or their...

work on the dual nature of man, which puts him firmly in the camp of philosophers. But he also had a tremendous influence on psych...

they realize that they may not be able to survive. They only have to come up with the money because an old, poor friend married a ...

no date). The senses are most attuned when the metaphysical component of time is involved, with a brief moment remembered f...

persuasive arguments, Aristotle mentions three techniques: pathos, ethos and logos (What is logos?) "Pathos" (from which we get th...

what is not. Descartes method of systematic doubt is to "reject as if absolutely false anything as to which I could imagine t...