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human senses can be mislead. This is seen when there are individuals close and far away, with the difference in size seen by the e...

with most of the guests as a large part of his life had been shaped by political factors. When he was...

know as the scientific method, which is still used today for ascertaining reliable facts about the natural world. To accomplish hi...

little consequence when it came to the knowing the true nature of something. However, Montaigne seems to limit himself in that he ...

According to Descartes a human being used his facilities to gain knowledge of his own world. No one would particularly argue with ...

of his faculties he created the hyperbolic doubt. Hyperbolic doubt is when one sets aside the information gained by any sense that...

Meditation, the three skeptical arguments are that one does not really know if he or she is dreaming, that one does not know wheth...

hand, argued that people would be attracted to others and be willing to help others, if they are virtuous (Lorenz, 2003). Virtue i...

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...

top the list. The Catholic Church is often quoted as having said, "Give me a child until he is seven and he will always be Catholi...

things that are not concrete, but ideas. This type of thinking, the student could state, however, really puts a hold on empirical ...

(2002) argument is based on his experiences as first a federal prosecutor, then a trial judge, and finally a California Superior C...

and it was on this that Plato based his philosophical oeuvre (1994). He was not only a disciple of Socrates but a diehard adversar...

education is still substantially elevated in contemporary culture. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees virtue as choice and so mora...

dramatic action by the end of the play (cathartic release), and falls into two parts comprising a complication and a d?nouement(El...

on which the man can stand (and is therefore the crown of the virtues) because Aristotle believed that a man who demonstrated prid...

of fate. In the process, our sympathy is aroused" (The tragic hero). Within this definition, tragedy also is included in that it ...

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...

is a case for communism at least for the lower classes. The supporting premises for that conclusion have already been noted and ge...

were to consider what is most important in society, most would point to causation. One tries to get to the cause of ones drinking,...

behind such behavior it simply cannot be condoned, inasmuch as society cannot be defined as a scientific expression when it routin...

who think that they are worthy of great things, but they are really unworthy of them, and that is pure vanity (PG). He goes on t...

his position by specifying that only a certain kind of agent can qualify as a moral agent, and thus subject to the ascriptions of...

the Sophoclean template, time should also be compressed and restricted, with the action of the play taking no more than one day. B...

agree with Aristotles ideas, and see morality as a living concept, and something that should not be tampered with. What might Aris...

wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves social needs. A number of philosophers have contributed to the debate which...

one is virtuous, and that their actions are virtuous, but that might be illusive. Can virtue be whittled down to intrinsic right o...

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

in the right way. In order to do this, however, one must be able to determine, using ones reason, what those right ways and right ...

woman, then she was free to take back her dowry and return to her fathers house (Brians, 1998). While this sounds quite humanistic...