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Experience and Ideas According to John Locke

(Locke: The Origin of Ideas, 2003). Locke, unlike many of his peers, denied that certain knowledge was innate for human...

3 Point Supporting Argument for Gun Control

bloodshed and terror of such despicable crimes comes the most obvious of questions: Why are kids killing each other? In an ideal ...

Perspective and Points of View Creative Essay

Colette and sing happy songs about flowers and birds. (point one) But, of course, flower songs are not for grown ups. Now, the so...

Famous 14 Points Speech of President Woodrow Wilson

Peace Without Victory speech. Nordholt (1991) reflects a president who was adamant about creating a world where alliance was "the...

US Civil War's Turning Points

argues that "Common sense, the necessities of the war, to say nothing of the dictation of justice and humanity have at last prevai...

Progress and Technology

would soon desire to take the car everywhere instead of walking, maintaining his own bodys requirements. Mans pursuit of the dolla...

Religious Concepts of Baruch Spinoza

enjoyment of what is good, not in the pride that he alone is enjoying it, to the exclusion of others. He who thinks himself more ...

Jean Jacques Rousseau and Charles Montesquieu

doing whatever one wants, with no regard to law (Krause, 2000). If independence must be sacrificed in order to achieve political ...

Child's Point of View in Susan Hill's I Am the King of the Castle

so that when he dies, it is all the more a shock to the reader. The point of view, though it is told by an omniscient narrator is ...

Three Points of Communication

lack of attention will begin to break down the trees very foundation. Soon, employee problems begin to manifest in the form of hi...

Karl Marx, John Locke, and Thomas Hobbes

of society. However, Hobbes is also making the assumption that human beings will able to ascertain what is the correct way of doin...

Reactions to the Patriot Act's Primary Points

tax. Patriot II is slated to replace the Patriot Act, but it is not yet fully refined and defined in its scope (Drake, 2003). Li...

Conservative Political Philosophy

to immigration reform, attacking affirmative action programs, welfare reform and tort reform (1996). Joshua Murachik, quoting Eliz...

Human Cloning and Ethics

they could, through their will, cause their actions to become universal law. Kant held that only those things that have bee...

Art According to Plato and Aristotle

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...

Conservatism and Edmund Burke

on Edmund Burkes Philosophy, 2002). * The traditions therefore which evolve from the life of a nation have a real purpose and usef...

Historical High-Points in Nursing History

also see that she considered the business of nursing to be about reform. In order to achieve the principles that she espoused fo...

Liberty Principle of John Rawls

is that these constructors of the new society are completely ignorant of their own racial, social and economic position within th...

Comparative Analysis of Virtue and Vice

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...

Concept of Human Nature

idea of self is more genuine and original, unique in its conception. Also, at the very foundation of this philosophy is that there...

The State and Virtue According to Alexis de Tocqueville and Aristotle

Virtuous action was defined by Aristotle as what a person with practical wisdom would choose. The golden mean, as defined by Ari...

Windows of G.W. Leibniz

that requires the transmission or transposition of the parts of those beings (1998). However, substances are simple unextended ent...

Vanishing Point Film and Existentialism

on the Today show, but most will die before that time. The speedometer on the car can indeed represent life and how or why one can...

'Argument Against Skepticism' by John Hospers

to the first two in that people have some former knowledge in order to "know" someone, or "know" how to do something (Hospers, 196...

The Mind-Body Problem and Descartes

thing" sets the stage for each of his subsequent steps. In Step 2 he delineates his completeness into one of its two parts, the b...

Immanuel Kant on the World's Purpose

beautiful. However, how can one make such judgments without purpose? Why is something wrong? If there is no purpose to life no one...

Ancient Greeks and Politics

basically a war between Athens and Sparta (Thucydides, 1881). This came about as a result of the growth of the Athenian Empire, a...

John Dewey and Richard Rorty Philosophical Parallels

our understanding of language, democracy, the individual (self), within both the public and private spheres. Rorty notes, for exa...

19th and 20th Century Philosophies of John Dewey, Bertrand Russell, and Richard Rorty

Each criticized the foundationalist approach advocated by Russell. Rorty (1989, 87), for example, insisted:...

Interaction Between the Body and the Mind According to Baruch Spinoza

also saw mind and body as two separate substance. The Descartes position on the mind-body problem combines the idea of substance d...