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reason (Kants Ethics, 2003). In his famous, Critique of Pure Reason, Kant "sought to answer the skepticism of empiricists like Hu...

(4.4.5-6) details how the law of karma determines the birth of the reincarnated soul (Pravrajika, 2001). Vedanta Hinduism views de...

of that century, the French philosopher, Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) developed his metaphysical theories known as "occasionali...

Camus relates the substance of the Greek myth and how Sisyphus was condemned to endlessly roll a rock up a hill in the underworld,...

If we accept the premise, therefore, that science is capable of defining physiological death then we must ask ourselves how do we ...

strive for bigger and better opportunities, to reach beyond what has become comfortable and consistent in order to attain that whi...

on actions, then the argument would end there. Utilitarianism, therefore, is their effect on society and the world at large. Actio...

identifies Schopenhauers most distinctive contribution to philosophy as his "insistence that Will is more basic than thought to bo...

While Hume appears down to Earth and logical, he is, in a very general sense, a skeptic. He notes that there is a battle between r...

being destroyed, ironically enough, by the very systems designed to preserve them. In his book, he manages to leave no one in th...

(2000) presents his argument, his thesis, in stating that "I want to raise and examine the possibility that, however much we came ...

Power is behind all that we perceive, then the Higher Power would be a deceitful one. Descartes arrives at this conclusion becaus...

the old mans money to the poor. While he fears being found out, when he is, the people not only forgive him, but elect him their n...

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...

by Eastern religions. A "Master" discerns the attainment of religious enlightenment in his novices according to how a novice beh...

corporate, organized around a concept of ultimate reality" (9). The reality conjured by these beliefs, actions and experiences ca...

but in those areas where the student was lagging a remediation course was offered in-house for the student. This seems logical, si...

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...

In five pages this paper discusses how the U.S. Civil War was the result of competing philosophies of states rights vs. a centrali...

Epicureanism propounded a lifestyle...

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...

the reader into the oppressive world of slavery. Indeed, it was the authors desire to bring attention to the injustices faced by ...

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...

grow at their own pace. While they - as a group -- share many developmental aspects, children cannot be consolidated as a single ...