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his original conclusion that God exists, a being greater than can be conceived. Question: Is this a devotional work or a philoso...

who is, for a good many people, the most entertaining character in the play. Mephistopheles manipulates Faust so that he "loves an...

AIDS education is something tied to a disease that has only surfaced at the end of the twentieth century and may have no relevance...

to be "yes." Problems arise however when we try to make certain that we are expressing meanings unambiguously; Quine among others...

for social control and the exercise of power, on the other. All government, indeed, all institutions of society, exist along this ...

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 ...

Essentially, the allegory likens those who remain unaware of forms to prisoners chained in a cave, and they cannot turn their head...

consider that if an entity, such as a nation, is to grow and become prosperous there will be enemies and as such perhaps war is es...

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

education, Aquinas was exposed to the work of the ancient Greek philosophers. Throughout his writing , Aquinas worked out a relati...

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

doubt and thought. If he thinks, then he exists: at least, his mind exists, since what he knows of his body is dependent, again, o...

must recognize that the consciousness (cit) is a separate phenomena which is present regardless of the presence or absence of stim...

charges of impiety and corruption of youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens ("Socrates," 2003). While this ph...

defines pornography, which is that they do not know what it is, but they know it when they see it (11). Similarly, it is not out o...

considerable empirical consideration but one which has yet to be either proved or refuted. Such as statement, therefore is not a ...

We can better understand this by invoking a comparison. A generalist would demand sameness in terms of how something functions ca...

This is found in Descartes work Meditations and is referred to as substance dualism, which is also known as Cartesian interactioni...

should be used to silence the opinions of others makes the implied assumption that his opinions are infallible. Mill grants that i...

steeled and a heart trans- formed into brass, so as to bear the weight of such responsibility" (Nietzsche, p.129). One can see tha...

human understanding. He saw the concept as being equated with something that exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transce...

When Hamlet returns home, he is greeted with what he is convinced is his fathers ghost. After identifying himself, the ghost prom...

(Kemerling, 2002). Lacking professional teacher training, Socrates elected to do some "free-wheeling" by partaking of spirited di...

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...

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...

the street ... must and will reflect our personal moral standards" (Reavley, 2001). Those moral standards, Reavley implies, must ...

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