YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :John Ortbergs Philosophy
Essays 391 - 420
Power is behind all that we perceive, then the Higher Power would be a deceitful one. Descartes arrives at this conclusion becaus...
lying promise is something that is said in order to achieve a favorable outcome. What if someone has a gun to the victims childs h...
when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." And, for 20th century Catholic theologian Josef Pieper (1904-97), Gods role in...
of the same) is "reason" rather than the self-conscious "I." One may then extend the concept from ethical ideas to morality, whic...
Camus relates the substance of the Greek myth and how Sisyphus was condemned to endlessly roll a rock up a hill in the underworld,...
by Eastern religions. A "Master" discerns the attainment of religious enlightenment in his novices according to how a novice beh...
but in those areas where the student was lagging a remediation course was offered in-house for the student. This seems logical, si...
corporate, organized around a concept of ultimate reality" (9). The reality conjured by these beliefs, actions and experiences ca...
Epicureanism propounded a lifestyle...
In five pages this paper discusses how the U.S. Civil War was the result of competing philosophies of states rights vs. a centrali...
not merely things to be used to reach ones goal, but are sentient beings with worth beyond measure. The golden rule may be interp...
trial for treason and his thoughts prior to his execution. These are the Apology, the Crito and the Phaedo, which is an account of...
the reader into the oppressive world of slavery. Indeed, it was the authors desire to bring attention to the injustices faced by ...
strive for bigger and better opportunities, to reach beyond what has become comfortable and consistent in order to attain that whi...
philosophy" was intent on raising philosophical debate above the aesthetic and theological interests which had held it captive for...
He sought not to try to make people feel any better about themselves or the world in which they lived aside from empowering them t...
done right and what potentially could go wrong, in the end one has to choose the model or models that most closely resemble ones o...
saying the above statement. The names change and the nature of the addiction changes with the substance, but the goal and reward ...
the post-Civil War period, which was one of unprecedented patronage for the arts from government and private sources, produced wor...
do not assert any observation sentences (Yancy, 1995). And in fact, science and philosophy truly have a lot in common. Both scient...
that is good. The sun is going down, and it is cold, so that is bad. Evil is something much worse than bad. Obviously, a setting s...
well-being but our physical well-being also. For instance, Terry (54) tells us that music has been widely recommended as a techni...
most general - or universal - aspect of things" (Definition of Philosophy). These studies, the definition continues, are not carri...
being destroyed, ironically enough, by the very systems designed to preserve them. In his book, he manages to leave no one in th...
that there is just one objective right way of doing things and on the other hand, there are many truths, is an enormous difference...
conclusions. Most logical claims can be refuted. Thus, logic in some way is not much better than perception. At least, one can say...
standing and he is awarded a full scholarship to a prestigious black college. This of course doesnt last long, as through a serie...
from a state of freedom to a willingness to submit to the states authority? This is the underlying question in the majority of hi...
(Nietzsche, 1974). It does seem to be true that when someone supports old institutions and mainstays they are applauded by the lar...
lived in a society where multifetal pregnancy reduction was a socially acceptable alternative to the numerous fetuses produced by ...