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

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

considered his philosophy to be heresy. Abbey (2004) notes that the work which gained Diderot the charge of disseminating pornogr...

conclusion that "a being than which none greater can be conceived can be conceived to be greater than it is," which is "absurd" (A...

or of material things. Berkeleys philosophical stance of immaterialism or idealism simply denied the existence of matter all toge...

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

the limited liberty that they offered was not sufficient to the majority of Arabs in Algeria (Gildea 17). Albert Camus wrote, in...

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

that appraisal in terms of wrong, immoral, or wicked is appropriate: only in this area that deterrence and retribution as they ope...

is less important than the conversation which takes place, and since the two individuals are from periods in Greek history several...

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

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

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

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

that true, effective and meaningful communication within the organizations has positively contributed to their present success and...

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

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

secular tone ("The Enlightenment," 2006). The eighteenth century would begin the Age of Reason where there was intellectual discov...

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...

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...

the role of the human mind in knowledge acquisition. They believe that information can be acquired both inductively and deductive...

over the course of time, come to define the individual and are as "real" as any authentic reality could/would be. Therefore, the ...

critics, his reputation and fame has never been truly compromised. He has added a great deal in terms of thought in a variety of d...

discussion. It is a way to present his theory on justice and what is right and wrong. Rawls view is basically that any rational h...

n.d.). Plato did talk about God, in Timaeus, Plato said that if God made the world as perfect then the soul must be perfect, also ...

trust anything. It is hard to know who is right, which is Hegels point. Finally, Hegels concept of organicism is also well known....

at least the observance of it. At MGM Studios and Walt Disney World, human submission to discipline and punishment is complete, th...

In ten pages this tutorial paper imagines a lively dialogue between political philosophers including St. Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle...