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Ordinary Language by John Austin and Ludwig Wittgenstein

developed in everyday exchanges can illuminate and even transform many of the problems with which philosophers have grappled. It i...

Faith and Ethics

Trembling clearly demonstrates the fact that faith needs to go beyond such an ethical system in order to be legitimate, an attribu...

Absurd and Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard

In five pages this essay provides a comparison of two passages in Fear and Trembling regarding Kierkegaard's Abraham theory and co...

What is a Religious Experience?

to God or to some type of "Ultimate Reality" (16). Such an experience differs from religious insight in that a religious insight ...

Miracles In The Gospel Of Mark

casting out evil from the possessed man and healing Peters mother-in-law and they brought many to the door asking to be healed ((M...

Connectivity, External and Internal Drive Bays

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

Discussing the Mind

do with anything. The popular theory of mind to some extent broaches the concept of personhood. There must be a person associated ...

'Humean' Naturalism and Wittgenstein

neighbors. Such things do happen. When life happens, it is often unique and has little reference to the past. Yet, in examining t...

Eclectic Functionalism In Counseling

functional psychology: an emphasis on mental operations instead of mental elements; the mind as the mediator between needs and the...

Spiritual Growth and Soren Kierkegaard

between ethics and religion.4 Because this seems whimsical at best and cumbersome, even nonsensical at worst, Im very glad to hea...

Morality According to Soren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche

to understand the last mans comprehension of these notions, and why the last man is not able to create beyond himself, one has to ...

Soren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche on Joy, Will, and Knowledge

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

Stadier and Confiniums According to Soren Kierkegaard

sweet unto me" (II, I). It seems that Augustine wants to review the past in order to share the journey to the present, and to rem...

Sickness Unto Death by Soren Kierkegaard

he sought to bring truth to others. Does Socrates Do Evil? From Kierkegaards position it is perhaps truth that all people do e...

Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard

by Kierkegaard as the individual who lives in response to God, no matter what appearances may be. As an example of the Knight of F...

Epictetus and Soren Kierkegaard

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares these men's concepts regarding personal development, selfhood, despair, and fait...

Justo L. Gonzalez and Soren Kierkegaard Compared

his or her own singular importance. "The ethical is the universal, and as such it is again the divine. One has therefore a right ...

An Example of Personal Nursing Philosophy

This essay presents an example paper that can be used as a guide to describing a personal nursing philosophy. The student's reason...

History of the General System Theory

or groups which led to a universal law of harmony (BCSSS, 2010). Likewise, Ernst Heinrich Haeckel took the views of Goethe and bu...

Questioning the Unquestionable Science and Our Belief in God

Human nature is to invent explanations for events and occurrences that are intuitively appealing. Example...

Contrasts in the General Systems Theory

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the Viable Systems Model of Stafford Beer and the Natural Systems Theory of Ervin ...

An Examination of Arianism Theology

but with the passage of time and the emergence of Christ, this necessitated that their ideology allow for both Jew and Greek to me...

Islamic Beliefs and the Five Pillars of Wisdom

he refused Gods command to bow down to Adam" (Horn, 2004). This is slightly different from Christian theology, which maintains tha...

A Dialogue on Believing in God's Existence

argue Gods existence within its own definition. Without any sort of relationship with other concrete statements, the entire argume...

Aloofness and Human Disinterest of the Greek Gods

them somehow" (Ancient Greek Religion and Mythology, 2003). For example, "The Egyptian goddess Isis was especially popular in Athe...

A Comparison of Machiavelli and Hobbes

idea of a virtuous republican citizen similar to how one might consider a citizen today. To give power and authority to the indivi...

'Reasonable' Belief in God?

In seven pages this paper examines whether or not the human belief in God's existence is reasonable. Eight sources are cited in t...

Belief in God in Hinduism and Buddhism

reverence that can only be achieved through understanding the esoteric aspects of the three worlds. "The experiential and devotio...

An Examination of Atheism

In ten pages this research paper presents arguments on God's existence both pro and con and discusses beliefs of atheists. Eight ...

Monotheism Versus Polytheism

do not even attempt to explain it. You either believe or you dont. The Doctrine of the Holy Trinity evolved over many years and ...