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the Big Bang, that was the "source of mystical illumination" (Henderson). This completely undermines the Church dogma that God is...

meaning; however, it has a totally different meaning if one steals from a prosperous bakery in order to keep ones family from star...

did not invent the principle of utility (which goes back to Plato) however, he was the first to devise a comprehensive theory base...

Stuart Mill (that is, if they had been contemporaries). Both men believed that the greatest threat posed by democratic rule was in...

In eight pages this paper examines Mahatma Gandhi's life in an application of Aristotle's 'good life' concepts. Two sources are c...

here, but Platos position that it is necessary to experience a thing in order to have knowledge of it informs the reading of The R...

Athens up as the shining example of democracy saying: "Let me say that our system of government does not copy the institution of o...

injustice...have no place" (2001). Hobbes argued that during this period in human development it was common experience that each m...

perfect, despite what we observe. Forms are beyond this material world, for nothing that we can grasp in this world is perfect."3 ...

He asserted that evidence that God exists in a singular or plural context because it has become universally accepted as truth (135...

of the two or the rule of the inferior is always hurtful" (NA). In this we see an incredibly humane approach, as well as a humane ...

or good enough. This individual does not say they have gone out of their way for another, nor have they claimed that they have sto...

keep order and lock up criminals and investigate injustices, but it is not governments job to tell the people how to live their li...

they established themselves in a small house in London. Pampinea then relates how the brothers scrimped and saved and started rebu...

close relationships over great distances and for a long period of time, indefinitely, even with separations and loss of contact" (...

a bad man or above humanity; he is like the Tribeless, lawless, hearthless one,whom Homer denounces- the natural outcast is forthw...

trial for treason and his thoughts prior to his execution. These are the Apology, the Crito and the Phaedo, which is an account of...

core of humanitys lack of individualism and blind willingness to be part of what he referred to as "the herd." In Nietzsches opini...

force themselves upon their wives for sexual favors, and they are not allowed by faith to molest them. The Torah and Talmud both ...

the sense of with aristocratic soul" (Nietzsche, 2002). This development occurred simultaneously with its polar opposite, by whic...

In particular, Wikholm (2002) cites the work of Karl Ulrichs and his descriptions of "men with an inborn attraction to other men."...

Due to this orientation, not surprisingly, Locke saw education as extremely important. He felt that education should, ideally, be ...

2002). His theory states that an individual inherits a tendency to respond to the environment in a certain manner; however,...

his position by specifying that only a certain kind of agent can qualify as a moral agent, and thus subject to the ascriptions of...

4). More and more cases of ill people and dead rats keep turning up, urging Dr. Rieux and Castel to become more certain that wh...

be certain, since the process of acquiring such information is inherently flawed. Not an altogether optimistic philosophy to be s...

this is a ludicrous statement because if the sun did not rise, there would be no life as human beings need the sun in order for th...

are added to language everyday. It helps to note also that fashion designers often take new trends from the street--such as the ba...

of itself, is not the end of the line in relation to the state of religious toleration, inasmuch as its very definition is that of...

also saw mind and body as two separate substance. The Descartes position on the mind-body problem combines the idea of substance d...