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The beliefs of Rene Descartes and other humanist philosophers are considered within the context of Turing's argument that a comput...

In five pages this paper examines a hypothetical contemporary dialogue between these 3 philosophers on how daily life features vir...

In five pages the argument that Scottish philosopher David Hume was a racist is considered. Four sources are cited in the bibliog...

particular essay, we are told that, "art lets truth originate." According to Kiefte (1997), what Heidegger is wondering about is...

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" ...

Descartes, of course, is remembered as the "father of modern philosophy". A rationalist, Descartes was particularly concerned wit...

equality reversed and he no longer supported the cause of "economic and moral independence" for women in his later years, but rath...

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

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

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

theories abound, and this idea actually seemingly did spark speculation about other black leaders deaths, it seems that at the ver...

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

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

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

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

and political components have had upon the masses is more than superficial according to Stern; rather, this power has rendered soc...

beginning of unique aspirations - as well as troubled alliances - within scientific and religious societies in relation to an orig...

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...

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

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

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

facts" (Manley 55) which leads to the realization that there are also "no true biographies...about this very ancient Greek poet" (...

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

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

the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation" (Jeremy Bentham, 2006). This simple co...

this sentiment and states that it is good when each individual realizes their talents and abilities to their fullest. Speaking in ...

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

The role of critical thinking in American society has taken on greater importance in the 21st century. This paper relates the conc...

contends that Humes definition of "cause" (using reason to infer existence), as "a bastard of the imagination, impregnated by expe...

In six pages Aristotle's view of pleasure in terms of where it resides within the context of a happy life is examined with the ass...