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costs of replacing the employee should the need arise. This can be examined not only in terms of modern morals and the way it may ...

of knowledge through experience, and so is the basis for synthetic statements that are linked to a postiori knowledge. Kant used ...

In five pages this paper examines Kant's perspective on moral worth and duty. One source is cited in the bibliography....

This paper consists of 12 pages and concerns asking famous philosophers such as George Berkeley, Rene Descartes, John Wisdom, Davi...

there is noting upon which the beliefs of an individual may be based and built or expanded upon. Descartes Meditations It is in "...

think, therefore I am" (Frost 2550. From this Descartes reasoned a body of ideas that he did not believe could be disputed, as th...

upon life are not likely to be duplicated in the near future. Indeed, the praise for such progression during these two periods ca...

their Doubts, and to confirm them at last in a perfect Skepticism" (47). Locke...

Goldings Lord of the Flies, for example, gives a view of civilised society which is by no means optimistic. He takes a group of ch...

going to equal seven. He states in his Mediations on First Philosophy: "SEVERAL years have now elapsed since I first became awar...

Thomas Hobbes Leviathan, and John Locke in his Second Treatise on Government (Hobbes and See Also Thomas Hobbes Leviathan 1651, 2...

rights of another individual. In this way, then, even if one chooses badly, they have not been damaged to the point that they have...

The problem which arose was that if the mind generates all perception, then is our understanding of something "real", meaning of t...

In five pages society's incorporation of religion is discussed in terms of several philosophical views that include mainstream rel...

of the most important philosophers when talking about knowledge and where it comes from. His explanation suggests that there is a ...

highest truth and certainty I have learned either from the senses or through the senses" (Descartes 29). But he is quick to note ...

a thinking thing, or a thing possessing within itself the faculty of thinking" (Descartes, 1960, p. 7). The fundamental asp...

certain choices in life. They make communion and choose a new middle name. They go to school, and their degree is attached to that...

is real? Again, the Cartesian Cogito is something that resolves the problem for some. Still, this is a problem that many philosoph...

of the world (1993). Yet, one can see this in action in smaller ways. Another way to look at the world is through the model called...

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

In six pages the philosophical and mathematical theories of Rene Descartes are discussed. Four sources are cited in the bibliogra...

This is found in Descartes work Meditations and is referred to as substance dualism, which is also known as Cartesian interactioni...

doubt and thought. If he thinks, then he exists: at least, his mind exists, since what he knows of his body is dependent, again, o...

In six pages this paper examines how knowledge theories are philosophically conceptualized by Kant, Hume, Spinoza, and Descartes. ...

In five pages this paper examines pessimism and whether or not optimism exists in this philosophical consideration of Voltaire, Sc...

strive for bigger and better opportunities, to reach beyond what has become comfortable and consistent in order to attain that whi...

Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...

significance despite scholarly interpretations to the contrary, because Descartes, himself, rejects this line of reasoning (109). ...

In five pages this paper discusses the ontological argument and its impact upon faith and religion with scientific philosophical o...