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Essays 421 - 450
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...
and the construction of "local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained" (19...
Each criticized the foundationalist approach advocated by Russell. Rorty (1989, 87), for example, insisted:...
to make choices based upon the priorities of others rather than their own priorities. There are so many pressures from so many so...
of itself, is not the end of the line in relation to the state of religious toleration, inasmuch as its very definition is that of...
"a fetus is not a person, and hence not the sort of entity to which it is proper to ascribe full moral rights" (Warren, 1996, p. 8...
his position by specifying that only a certain kind of agent can qualify as a moral agent, and thus subject to the ascriptions of...
and we can start to see the representation of Judaism in Kafkas work, Scholem stated that "Although unaware of it himself, [Kafkas...
warrior society that Beowulf invokes derives from these "newcomers" to the British Isles. Abrams, et al also state that in this wa...
way in which the ideas are created but rather because there is a lack of autonomy. He does not view morality as something that is ...
hand, does not accept the fact that Rockefeller was a benevolent, conscionable businessman. At a time when business was literally...
Cesare Lombroso was an Italian medical doctor, psychiatrist and criminologist, who created a sensation with his book that was publ...
who is a software programmer by day and a hacker known as Neo by night. Becoming increasingly disillusioned with his life, Neo se...
all. However, Hamlet does not see it this way and becomes very angry with his mother for marrying Claudius. Because of this, Ham...
would affect others (Kahl, 2002). So then, it only makes sense given this framework that people in general tend to pursue that wh...
reference regarding a camel fitting through the eye of the needle. Certainly, Nietzsche did not mean to suggest anything beyond th...
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...
man being superior to another, the contradiction still stands. Despite some inadequacies in his work, the simplicity of Locke is ...
for Plato and are directly related to that capacity of understanding. Physical things of the world must, of necessity, have bodily...
of her father and her eventual release from her house, little is known of the first thirty years of her life in addition to the li...
fairness and justice (Rawls, 1958). Many of Rawls philosophies are reflective of those of other great thinkers who preced...
the novel and the author views her, and thus views women in general perhaps. The character to be examined is Rosa Dartle. She "i...
from mans knowledge of truth; Aristotle believed that all men pursued happiness which came not from wealth but from contemplation ...
how things were effected, but rather, the investigation goes to why. One may glean, from reading this book, that America was prope...
In five pages Lefebvre's and Mousnier's views on what contributed to the French uprisings of the seventeenth and eighteenth centur...
on that he believes in the Presbyterian concept of Predestination -- "From my childhood up, my mind had been wont to be full of ob...
anti-discrimination legal issues and laws, equal rights protection, and the newer "discipline" of modern and critical race theory....
a "relentless critic of metaphysics and religion" (David Hume, 2002). Hume argued that "our purely philosophical conceptions of G...
at those responsible for the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. In other words, education is supposed to take a neutral appr...
is good (Frost 84). For Socrates, "a life which is always inquiring and trying to discover what is good is the best kind of life, ...