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the only way to arrive at this point, he seems to be saying, is to carefully examine anything that one believes with the yardstick...

the time, today people are faced with decisions and can decide to be honest or face dire consequences. Journalists today sometimes...

also be allowed to have their own private property. In Aristotles belief, man is inherently born sinful. Because of this ...

avoids trying to force the same concept of right and wrong upon all of the worlds societies, objectivism believes there is conside...

it, these are all abstractions on the concept of the apple in the first place. These notions could not be made without the immedi...

life fulfillment and that a disabled individual should be allowed to die because their quality of life will not allow them to find...

conditions and development; contrarily, humanity may also perceive the world as a more direct understanding based upon their spiri...

Hume presented his arguments in a pair of treatises that are still considered required reading for any student of Western philosop...

childhood, during his early life, Socrates was a sculptor, following in the footsteps of his father, Sophroniscus (Wikpedia, 2003)...

interprets the ideal of freedom and to what extent they live in their own psychological prisons. Social freedom means that one wil...

what can be seen or proven. While Melissa could surely use the argument in her defense as if the body is separate from the soul...

the universe, in which human beings are pictured a being at the top of the pyramid to one that sees life as an expanding circle th...

What comes out of a courtroom is not necessarily truth, but which side argues best. The Sophists prided themselves on the use of p...

2002) . Rene Descartes on the other hand delved into the idea of immediate conscious thinking (2002). Locke viewed identity as be...

of these seemingly paradoxical perspectives on the nature of society and the role of the individual in society. Plato appears to ...

However, we can also argue that the proof f this truth made no difference to whether the belief was true, being true even before i...

is real? Again, the Cartesian Cogito is something that resolves the problem for some. Still, this is a problem that many philosoph...

ideas. As we shall soon see, through these speeches Plato seems to have reasoned out how it is that mankind make their way from th...

Introduction The issues surrounding abortion are complex to say the least. People are polarized on the issue...

certainty. I might as well take a shower. I hurried, in an effort to at least reduce the amount of time I would walk into the door...

the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...

biotechnology can easily run up to tens of thousands of pages, including text and diagrams (Malone, 2002). Each one must be read w...

worthy but they are not. This leads Kant to further defining what makes good will different from bad will: "A good will is good...

that she was much more responsive and seemed to be improving. Still not fully conscious, at times she would be able to "communica...

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

other words, lets say that someone came along and said that the sky was falling and that it was a miracle! Basically what Hume is...

dilemma of a single woman who is part of what the politicians and social scientists refer to as a member of the "working poor" soc...

type of religious experience generally is most closely associated with the Christian perspective. In his discussion of this...

which can possibly be doubtful, but think that some particular principle or doctrine should be forbidden to be questioned because ...

is a case for communism at least for the lower classes. The supporting premises for that conclusion have already been noted and ge...