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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...

Christianity and Religion According to On Liberty and A Letter Concerning Toleration

of itself, is not the end of the line in relation to the state of religious toleration, inasmuch as its very definition is that of...

Richard Rorty and Immanuel Kant on Truth

are told, when will others in the same position known if they are being told the truth, or will they assume the worse, harming hum...

Concepts Relating to Socrates and Plato

In five pages this paper examines concepts featured in 'Myth of the Cave' and The Apology and also considers 'The Death of Ivan Il...

Lying According to J.S. Mill

that lying is not only necessary in some circumstances, but one may go beyond the few exceptions and see good in the lie. It is ce...

Plato's Life and Philosophical Dialogues

in the Peloponnesian War, which ended in a resounding defeat for Athens in 404 B.C. (Levinson ix-x). While it can be assumed that...

Problemata I of Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard

In five pages Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard's solution to Problemata I featured in his text Fear and Trembling is discussed...

Liberty and Truth According to the Concepts of John Stuart Mill

be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others" (Mill PG). Thus,...

John Stuart Mill, Jean Jacques Rousseau, and Thomas Hobbes

In six pages this research paper examines religion and the state as viewed by philosophers Mill, Rousseau, and Hobbes. Three sour...

Socrates and Niccolo Machiavelli on Political Education

ground, whether that is through dialectical discourse or reason (1994). Barber claims that neither approach leaves any room for po...

Happiness, Stoics, Epicureans, and Aristotle

not likely to live a pleasant life unless you practice moderation; the Epicurean philosophy was an argument for a traditionally mo...

Divine Vies of Plato

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 ...

Socrates and Machiavelli on Leadership

character of the leader nor of his ability to lead. The book is essentially about how a leader can be at his best. While it is tru...

Utilitarianism and Morality According to John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant

but when exampled it becomes clear. For instance, one ought to respect human life. If one respects the life of another, then they ...

Age of Reason and Empiricism's Limits in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke

will experience touch, smell, taste and so forth, the latter of which is difficult to relay. In other words, how can one provide a...

Fantasy Space of Michel Foucault, Walt Disney and MGM Studios

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

Life and Philosophy of Denis Diderot

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

Arguments of John Stuart Mill in On Liberty

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

A Position Paper on Montaigne and Descartes

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

Algerian War and Albert Camus

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

Samuel Johnson and George Berkeley on Metaphysics

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

Education Contributions of Desiderius Erasmus

preoccupation with metaphysical and theological subtleties rather than with biblically based ethics" (Gutek 101). Rather than get ...

Soren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche on Joy, Will, and Knowledge

knowledge is not as important as faith. That is a significant difference between the two. At the same time, neither admits that hu...

Karl Marx and the Criticism of Karl Popper

with the use of a random sample, one can say that a conclusion may be drawn. If it is found that children will think like their pa...

Saint Thomas Aquinas and Socrates

teaching, in which he pretended not to know the answers to questions, so that students would come to understanding on their own. ...

Memory Role and Personal Identity

Loftus report that visitors to Disneyland had come to the conclusion that they met Bugs Bunny, but the rabbit is actually a Warner...

Contemplation and Calmness in Philosophy According to Sebastian de Grazia and Aristotle

who waste time believing or fearing that which is untrue could not possibly be calm or contemplative; as such, they could change t...

'Good Life' and the Philosophies of Albert Camus, Rene Descartes, and Plato

"I easily understand that, if some body exists, with which my mind is so conjoined and united as to be able, as it were, to consid...

Analyzing Simulations by Jean Baudrillard

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

Different Knowledge Types

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