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One of the questions that has plagued theologians, Biblical scholars, philosophers and others has to do with God and evil. How can...

The entitled topic represents one part of this paper, which discusses four philosophers. Weber proved his point that Calvinism pla...

freedoms, which, in effect "shook individuals in their political and social foundations." It ended the feudal system, and it drama...

the same way it does to other phenomena is related to the freedom of the will, a controversy that is still unsettled (Mill, 2003)....

the fact that "The Buddhists consider the world to be full of sorrow and regard ending the sorrow as the chief aim of human life" ...

the Republic. Take pornography as an example. Plato argued that objectionable ideas can upset the understanding (Johnston). Femini...

of sex and love. Harraway explores technology from a feminist perspective, from the perspective of how man and machine can blend ...

perception is that which we, as humans, have been trained to discern as a species, inasmuch as the certain quality of perception r...

secular tone ("The Enlightenment," 2006). The eighteenth century would begin the Age of Reason where there was intellectual discov...

it is also the case that in general terms, people seem to believe what they see. They do not see atoms and they do see a solid mas...

distance. In some way one can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees ...

understanding of truth and communicating the truth of the Gospel to those who do not yet know it" (Pope John Paul II, Introduction...

is the ability of human beings to question that is at the foundation of human nature. As this suggests, for Heidegger, Being is th...

- while a religious man himself - strongly believed to reflect mankinds futile passion toward Gods plan and the failure to realize...

life progresses and is, therefore, under the guidance of peripheral forces. Rachel (2004) asserts mankinds business on eart...

didnt have a term equal to "evolution," several of them deduced that things originated in other things; for instance "Thales asser...

Before Socrates, this characteristic was missing, and the addition of it is so striking that it sets Socrates apart from the philo...

(Saxonhouse, 1998). This is something thought not to lead to violence, but rather to a profound gentleness (Saxonhouse, 1998). In ...

if coincidences are meaningless activities created by the individual thinker who indeed creates his own universe? It is really dif...

Schwartz towards the woman he is longing for; the disappointed gaze of his wife Lotte (Cameron Diaz). When a person is presumably ...

conclusion that "a being than which none greater can be conceived can be conceived to be greater than it is," which is "absurd" (A...

of his own life; and consequently, of doing anything which, in his own judgement and reason, he shall conceive to be the aptest me...

of accountability, is at the root of the moral morass over the issue of abortion. The following discussion, which is founded on ...

who waste time believing or fearing that which is untrue could not possibly be calm or contemplative; as such, they could change t...

preoccupation with metaphysical and theological subtleties rather than with biblically based ethics" (Gutek 101). Rather than get ...

is, there is both free will and determinism. The idea that free will and determinism are one in the same is rare, but it seems ...

knowledge is not as important as faith. That is a significant difference between the two. At the same time, neither admits that hu...

with the use of a random sample, one can say that a conclusion may be drawn. If it is found that children will think like their pa...

the goal of his philosophy was to provide "common sense" (Honderich 754). Differing also from Descartes, Reid argued that the mind...

be an object of science. To this question, Aquinas answers "no." First of all, following the medieval style of reasoning, he posit...