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Essays 1561 - 1590
cause of the effect must possess as much reality as the effect. Furthermore, Descartes asserts that any cause must have as much p...
and non-rational elements. Of the non-rational, the autonomic responses (breathing, sleeping, digesting, and reproducing) is commo...
In the context of a greater philosophy perhaps, a philosopher says what he thinks. Yet, he is unwittingly part of a grand plan. Wh...
that created a chasm between the haves and the "have nots." With people working for the government, and each getting an equal stip...
modification, which dispels ignorance" (Mohanty, 2001). When we cognize we abate ignorance....
and "advisors" were, in many ways, far more powerful than the aristocrat holding office. Machiavelli himself was such a creature ...
individual who naturally believes in true equality and empowerment across the entire population. The reasons it becomes so confusi...
wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves social needs. A number of philosophers have contributed to the debate which...
States and among philosophers in general. While this background was largely unnecessary from the perspective of many of the retre...
2002). The Department does not only hire correctional officers. There are a vast array of jobs that include: Correctional Officer...
is contrasted with "conservative" or "right-wing" ideologies. Within the broader context of political theory. "liberalism" has a d...
that they are reconstructions of a world that never quite existed...but whose beauty...seductiveness, lies precisely in that mixtu...
as a morally acceptable act from a Utilitarian point of view. Many philosophical and sociological questions loom over this issue...
words, "how does one KNOW that this is the truth". Most of Socrates teaching took place on the steps of a Lyceum, much like an a...
in the article "Key Iraqi weapons official held" in relation to topics studied in the roots of Western Culture deal primarily with...
US manufacturing was benefiting from the attention to quality, whether specific organizations chose to implement TQM or not. Thos...
address the problems of individualism in our contemporary society. While Wests "Race Matters" makes a frontal attack on these pro...
arguments these days is that one would not want a physician operating on one when the physician is using marijuana on his off hour...
the work goes on to Part II and is headed Metaphysical first principles of the doctrine of virtue. This is also further subdivided...
However, Allen also makes the point that Platos attitude was at least partially due to his respect and fear of the powers of art o...
philosophical thought begs to differ. In the pre-Plato period, for example, the prevailing belief was that pleasure was immediate ...
Woody Guthries and Henry Fondas careers, and many current land- and water-use policies in the western United States. Ideas, even b...
were distinguished in the nineteenth century with the "natural" sciences. To a great degree, James was attempting to create and/...
that the object of thought is capable of being. Hume understands that, quite simplistically, the soul is simply . . . the soul. ...
gave the commencement speech at his daughters graduation from Radcliffe, he concisely summed up the essence of what he found to be...
for existence in which the fittest members of a varying population survive, reproduce, and pass on their traits to the next genera...
of his better known works "The Social Contract", he discusses issues involved in radical or republican thought regarding the human...
hospital quite naturally is concerned about the cost of continuing to provide care for Andrew, but it can be assured that there is...
see the usefulness of your food donation, insofar as eating food will improve his health." And there is still yet another agreeabl...
This research paper examines Kant's philosophy of transcendental deduction, with a specific focus on the transcendental unity of a...