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Does Believing in God's Existence Make Any Sense?

In five pages this paper discusses the grounds for believing in God's existence by discussing philosophical interpretations of fou...

Overview of Truth and Content in Stuff Magazine

In five pages this men's magazine is examined in terms of the truth behind its content or lack thereof. Four sources are cited in...

2 Philosophical Questions Examined

the belief that God created all plants and animals, as well as the universe itself, as recounted in the Old Testament. Evolutioni...

The Bible - Fact or Fiction?

This 8 page paper considers whether the Bible is fact or myth, and whether or not it provides an accurate account of real people a...

Truth in Sophocles' Oedipus Rex and David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly

In 5 pages this paper examines how perceptions of truth are shaped through illusion in these two plays. There are 3 sources cited...

JFK, a Critical Overview

Few movies have sparked more controversy than JFK, Oliver Stone's 1991 descent into conspiracy theory. This paper offers a critica...

4 Noble Truths and the Doctrine of Dependent Origin

In two pages this paper examines the connection between the Buddhist 4 Noble Truths and the Doctrine of Dependent Origin. Two sou...

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...

Application of Plato's Metaphysical Tradition

In ten pages this paper applies the metaphysical tradition to an analysis of Existentialism and Basic Writings by Friedrich Nietzs...

Fugitive Slave Act and the Compromise of 1850

freedom was the Mason-Dixon; now it was moved all the way to Canada. Bounty hunters took full advantage of this operation by gene...

W.H. Auden, Georges Braque, and Pablo Picasso

In five pages this report considers W.H. Auden's poetry line 'Art is a lie that tells the truth' within the contexts of painting b...

Philosophical Empiricism and Rationalism

In two pages this report examines the Empiricism characterized by the philosophies of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke and the rationa...

'The Stranger' by Albert Camus and the Character of Meursault and 'Siddhartha' by Hermann Hesse

In six pages these characters are philosophically analyzed from Stoic, Sophist, Cynic, Epicurean, and Cyreniac perspectives and ex...

Reading the Book of Nature by Peter Kosso and Science

In five pages this paper examines if truth is generated by science in this analysis of Peter Kosso's text. Four sources are cited...

Marxist Class Concept and Overdetermination

In seven pages this paper examines the overdetermination theory in a consideration of the Marxist class concept with the division ...

Comparison of Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Oedipus the King by Sophocles

In eight pages the protagonists of each play are compared and contrasted in terms of desire for truth, changes, and the collision ...

Sophocles' Observation 'Truth is the Strongest Argument'

In five pages the truth of this statement is argued with supporting evidence from various philosophers. Four sources are cited in...

Auden, Braque, and Picasso

the eye through the painting. Colors are the restrained grays, whites, browns, and blacks that had dominated Analytical Cubism si...

Test of Intelligence by Alan Turing

The beliefs of Rene Descartes and other humanist philosophers are considered within the context of Turing's argument that a comput...

Universal Truths Presented in Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

In four pages this report considers the universal truths that lead to Faustus's tragedy and Marlowe's objectives in this tale. Th...

Happiness and Comfort, Beauty and Truth in Brave New World by Aldoux Huxley

This paper consists of six pages and focuses upon text chapters XVI and XVII which features a debate between John the Savage and M...

Truth About Ritalin

In five pages this paper examines Ritalin in a consideration of this alleged miracle drugs and the real truth behind it. Eleven s...

Other Mind Concept and Problems Associated with It

the other mind theory. "...The problem lies in the belief that in looking for evidence of other minds, we need to start off from ...

Radical Judaism

In five pages the seventh chapter of Huston Smith's The World's Religions is examined in a consideration of Judaism, prophecy, and...

Descartes on Dualism

are comprised of. Dualism and Descartes Descartes believed that the two elements were mind and soul, or mental substance ("gh...

Existence and Rene Descartes

In six pages this research paper examines Descartes' 'I think therefore I am' argument regarding existence. Six sources are cited...

God As Conceptualized by Baruch Spinoza

God is the world and the universe and it is just there. At the same time, he may be seen as both the cause of, and the universe, i...

A Philosophy Basic Overview

In this paper consisting of twenty pages questions regarding such influential philosophers as Robert Nozick, Mary Daly, the Stoics...

Philosophy as the Practice of Death by Plato as Evaluated by Descartes

This research report looks at how Descartes would feel about Plato's ideas. Would he agree with Plato in his ideas about death? Th...