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Essays 1741 - 1770

Third Meditation of Rene Descartes

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

SPOT and the DirectBand Network of Microsoft

magnets and key-chains among other micro objects which will be able to provide users with information download continuously from t...

3 Classical Philosophies and Animal Rights

and non-rational elements. Of the non-rational, the autonomic responses (breathing, sleeping, digesting, and reproducing) is commo...

Philosophical Comparison of Benjamin Franklin and Henry David Thoreau

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

Art According to Plato and Aristotle

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...

Personal Privacy Issue and Data Processing

also whether or not he or she has ever been cited for any speeding or traffic violations (The Feds are Following You, 2000). Any ...

Effecting Societal ChangeTwo Approaches to Societal Change: Elshtain's “Democracy on Trial” and West's “Race Matters”

address the problems of individualism in our contemporary society. While Wests "Race Matters" makes a frontal attack on these pro...

Position Paper on Drugs Legalization

arguments these days is that one would not want a physician operating on one when the physician is using marijuana on his off hour...

Cases of Personal Injury and NC's Statute of Limitations

cause of action shall accrue more than 10 years from the last act or omission of the defendant giving rise to the cause of action ...

Student Worldview Questions Answered in the First Person

hear from him again. If a good friend does not return a call right away, I wonder if she still cares about me. The cliche is that ...

Overview of the PCS Industry

of 2003 while wired telecom service declined by four percent (TNS Telecoms, 2003). In 2001, wireless customers exceeded resident...

Social and Personal Truth Perceptions

structure, community, and religious beliefs. For example, what is a truth in the United States is not a truth in Iraq. Conversely,...

Personal Computer Problems as a Sample Essay Narrative

would help me become a self-employed entrepreneur, and the tasks that used take me hours complete would now be simply a matter of ...

The Social Role of Women and Auguste Comte

the basis for an advanced society" (p. 229). She quotes from Comtes Cours de philosophie positive (published in 1855) and explains...

A Case Study of Ethical Conflicts

and control represents the very essence of a capable social worker. According to Harry Specht and Mark E. Courtneys Unfaithful An...

US' Diminishing Democracy

freedom was only for themselves. Anyone not agreeing with the religious tenets of the Puritans was ostracized from all Puritan co...

A Review of Staffing the World

are quite remarkable. The company was founded in Detroit in 1946 by William Russell Kelly (1905 - 1998) and was known as...

Knowledge, Sensation, Plato and Rene Descartes

also supported what was known as the Theory of Ideas, which mainly stated that archetypal ideas (which rest in the universal)(Plan...

Personal Responsibility

give freely and fully until their own needs are met. This is a notion that is to some extent confirmed by Maslows hierarchy of nee...

False Advertising and Ethical Issues

(Romans & Kiernan, 2002). Of course, that is debatable. Opinion enters the picture, but if a claim can be proven false, then one c...

S. Foss's Inviting Transformation, Presentational Speaking for a Changing World and Public Speaking

those principles and put them into action and practice presentational speaking. Nevertheless, the first part of my task is accompl...

Indian Philosophy and the Connection Between Suffering and Craving

Craving can also be related to karma, a karma consisting of bodily karma, vocal karma and mental karma, each defined below:...

Philosophy of George Berkeley

it, these are all abstractions on the concept of the apple in the first place. These notions could not be made without the immedi...

Animal Consciousness, Physicalism, and Personal Identity According to Nagel and Locke

the only species that truly does not understand the depth and intensity that animals possess in their special consciousness. When...

Ruling Passions by Simon Blackburn and an Expressivism Analysis

therefore the foundation for human behavior and motivation. Expressivism as a moral philosophy is however flawed, as are m...

Libertarianism's Pros and Cons

prompts. Of course, this is really not a good reason to outlaw the substance. The society also claims that pot is a gateway drug a...

'The Bridegroom' by Ha Jin

concerned for the welfare of his rather homely adopted daughter, Beina. First of all, Jin makes it clear that women within Chinese...

Comparative Analysis of Spinoza's Dual Monism and Rene Descartes Mind and Body Interactionism

having been created by a supreme and ethereal being, whose own creation is inherent to that of all He created. Based upon his def...

Personal Reaction to Nike

to continue setting its own course despite anything any critics had to say. Some of its primary retailers began closing stores, r...

Confucius and Aristotle Compared

and deficiency (McCartt, 2003). Moral virtue also follows this pattern, although in this regard Aristotle refers to it as the "Go...