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Parmenides Dialogue by Plato

that can be grasped with the human mind, but not with human senses (Gill, 1996,p. 1). The first part of the Parmenides, Plato has...

The Major Points of The Crucible by Arthur Miller

tension in the play, which is by changing historical detail to create greater dramatic tension. The historical Abigail Williams, w...

Fourteen Points of President Woodrow Wilson

a reaction to a publication put out by the Bolshevik revolutionary government in Russia regarding secret treaties of the allies ("...

Thinking and Martin Heidegger

collect itself (1966). As the modern world has been conditioned to this sort of thinking, it has now become problematic to imagin...

Christianity and Friedrich Nietzsche

values rapid change and constant novelty, Zaras speed and clever marketing of scarcity were highly effective. Recruitm...

Citizenship According to Plato and Aristotle

here, but Platos position that it is necessary to experience a thing in order to have knowledge of it informs the reading of The R...

Dennis Bonnette's Origin Of The Human Species

In a paper consisting of seven pages the philosopher Bonnette is compared with Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle in the contention that...

Reality Struggles of Rene Descartes, George Berkeley, and David Hume

even more challenging. He takes dualism to its logical end by insisting that we not only cannot prove that the matter exists, but ...

Views by Plato and Socrates That No One Knowingly Commits Wrong

the amount of knowledge that anyone has very little to do with doing things that are wrong. Now, understandably, we can see wher...

Human Rights and How They Have Evolved

may appear as a primary concept, it has been met with great hostility, with critics contending that dialogue apart from justice is...

Truth According to David Hume, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Aristotle

discover) the truth or falsity of propositions about past and present events, propositions about the future seem problematic. If a...

Mad Love by Andre Breton

Mad Love, Breton attempts to accomplish the impossible - to textually recreate the basic emotions of passion and desire, which mov...

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 ...

Philosophy and the Relationship Between the Body and the Mind

of that century, the French philosopher, Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) developed his metaphysical theories known as "occasionali...

Cultural Impact of Television

reasons why Mill make this assertion at the close of his argument lie within the work itself. In chapter III, Mill puts worth two ...

David Hume and Immanuel Kant on Freedom of the Will

event has a cause; and, second, an immortal soul exists distinct from the body. Therefore, freedom of the human will serves as an ...

Civil War Turning Point of the Battle Of Gettysburg

is influences upon the Civil War were such that had he not been a primary participant in the battle, history would have recorded t...

Freedom According to Tacitus

This paper will also analyze whether Tacitus was correct in his belief that judiciary freedom was ruined in the presence of the em...

Thoreau, Pieper, and Plato on What Philosophy Is

when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." And, for 20th century Catholic theologian Josef Pieper (1904-97), Gods role in...

Ethics From Teleological and Deontological Philosophical Perspectives

taking a life to save two hardly ever arises. How can these outlandish case studies and extreme concepts be applied to administrat...

Feminist Versus Material View Points in Film and Television

her husband, and knew herself to be near death. Her digestive system had been destroyed by the disease, and, in intense pain and u...

Tommaso Campanella, Plato, Thomas More, Saint Benedict, and Point of Departure

Rule, was developed as a handbook for new monks entering his order. There are a number of chapters in the rule, most of which pert...

Contemporary Application of the Ideal Leadership Theory of Niccolo Machiavelli

Machiavelli had been imprisoned by the opposing Medici and he saw how the conflict between politicians can destroy what issues are...

Artistic Similarities Jean Jacques Rousseau and Jacques Louis David

of color to drawing (2002). The economy of statement had been seen to be in line with keeping with the new severity of taste (20...

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...

Philosophies and Democracy

In five pages the statement 'Democracy is not a mechanical device, it is, rather, a living organism that can only flourish in cert...

The Views on God, Religion, and Philosophy as Glimpsed by Bonaventure, Aquinas, and Augustine

else can be expected but that creatures (angelic, human, and the rest) are also one as emanating from God. Dont say "creating" si...

British Politics and Constitution According to Hippolyte Taine

In 5 pages this paper examines how the French philosopher perceived the politics and Constitution of Great Britain. There are 7 s...

Harm Principle of John Stuart Mill

be viewed as a doctrine where the useful is good and the determining consideration of right conduct should be the usefulness of it...

Comparison of Spinoza and Hume

was that pleasure was immediate gratification but the greater good would be realized by a life lived based on principles as the go...