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power to enforce decisions (Lloyd, 2002). Hobbes also believed that an absolute monarchy was prefereable to other forms of govern...

This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...

in his infamous work On Liberty, he relays that idea. Joplins idea is quite a philosophical, intangible view of freedom as it sug...

in order to establish a firm foundation of understanding in his or her life. In knowledge there is inherent value and wealth; dwe...

the topic of education. He says, "Next, said I, compare our nature in respect of education and its lack to such an experience as t...

achieve this level of human excellence by adhering to the fourteen axioms acts of Nicomachean Ethics, which included gentility, ho...

it will occur; which leads to the Conclusion: "no action is free" (Cahn, 1971, 39). Hard determinism argues that these two premi...

the face of it, to go against the utilitarian principle of the "greatest good of the greatest number", taking a more long-term vie...

who will eventually hold office and decide what to pursue in respect to issues like abortion, stem cell research and capital punis...

what he actually did. At the same time, it is not as if this philosopher threw out the basic tenets of reasoning. He did find it n...

human being for a short span of time. The cave allegory is quite well known and has been used by many to interpret Platos philosop...

and had been released some months earlier (Biodrowski). The novel, which has the subtitle of "The Modern Prometheus," is "a sort o...

one may see it as quasi-scientific determinism. Yet, from a Western point of view, Buddhism is considered to be indeterministic (A...

long and interesting historical evolution, and its origins are largely responsible for the reluctance of allopathic medical profes...

in his account when he passed away. The email provider Yahoo claimed that due to a terms of service agreement, they could not allo...

by the theory of monism (Turner). The greatest strength of monism appears to be its simplicity: it admits of only one underlying c...

cosmological argument. As mentioned above, an ontological approach uses a deductive argument which "claims that its premises can b...

knowledge has long been purported as the only viable means by which mankind truly knows how and if something exists; without empir...

philosophers and playwrights, addressed themselves to the reality of the absurdity of life and argued that that its reality should...

Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...

the idea that there are reasons for implementing law beyond the idea of just maintaining law and order. Other supporters of positi...

not merely things to be used to reach ones goal, but are sentient beings with worth beyond measure. The golden rule may be interp...

was changing in terms of philosophy. John Lockes The Second Treatise of Civil Government is rather compelling and in fact, free ch...

personal desire to do so, rather than depending upon automatic reaction or stimulation. "The skeptic, therefore, had better keep ...

Theravada Buddhism was the original form, which was based on lengthy meditation and required...

II. Facts of the Case The case in question was presented to Lord Justice Ward, Lord Justice Brooke and Lord Justice Robert Wal...

past times are given (or as he put it more cautiously, "presupposed") in the present time. It is possible, according to Kant, tha...

there is continuity through time in terms of personal identity and her doubt about her own continuing identity is contradicted by...

and Cavaliers differ somewhat from those that are associated with Europe. What we most often remember in America is the differenc...

Sisyphus himself perceives his condition....