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cause of the effect must possess as much reality as the effect. Furthermore, Descartes asserts that any cause must have as much p...

challenged mankinds very conscience. He retreated to Walden Pond in order to refresh his own character and to effectively remove ...

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 ...

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...

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...

This research paper examines Kant's philosophy of transcendental deduction, with a specific focus on the transcendental unity of a...

Woody Guthries and Henry Fondas careers, and many current land- and water-use policies in the western United States. Ideas, even b...

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...

just like their travel mates. As the plot unfolds, however, we find that these four have much more in common than they would care...

(2002) argument is based on his experiences as first a federal prosecutor, then a trial judge, and finally a California Superior C...

to is none other than that of the Romantic period. The person who considered himself a romantic, too, would question some of life...

of poetry, since it is the expression of imagination that allows for emotional comprehension. Introduction Imagination i...

in front of me and a keyboard at my fingers. Is the movement of my fingers real as I type these words? The possibility that perh...

study, many infants actually died as a result because the women could not properly store the man-made food. Here, the moral dile...

of innate knowledge, he was adamant that nothing could be learned except through experience and sensory input: "How comes [the mi...

of growing social concerns. As such, the impact and theories developed about human development and growth, as well as the learning...

2001). In addition to a belief in nothing, nihilists often have an impulse to destroy perhaps anything that is based on a belief s...

This then has an impact on loadable funds, with the ability of financial institutions to transform funds into loans and facilitate...

Keats diverges, in point, in the final influence of nature and the...

when the threat that caused their creation no longer exists. The Constructivists, in contrast, contend that alliances exist becau...

When the Keynesian revolution started, there was less concern about the supply side factors. Keynesian economics developed in res...

present impression, the sight of a flame, for instance, results in a causal relationship in the mind of the observer between flame...

not make up an ethical life. Rather, he based his ideas on his own ideas concerning reason, but he did so within the context of hi...

occurred. One of the only things that one can find to argue about Locke is that he eventually becomes as inflexible as the rest o...

that they are reconstructions of a world that never quite existed...but whose beauty...seductiveness, lies precisely in that mixtu...