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essentially wrong is when words appear on his computer screen-something that should not happen-and hes told to "follow the white r...

quickly taking over the world, leaving no room for anything else" (Williams, Dustin and McKenney, 2004). In his view, we were leav...

third wife and third child come a year apart between 1936 and 1937, while his next publication - A History of Western Philosophy -...

if the Weber model is correct. Kilcullen points out that Weber "was perhaps the first great master of the major institutional fac...

It is not the awareness, however, which overrides the ignorance, it is the cognition (Mohanty, 2001). Knowledge in this regard ca...

to be happy, but to be happy he has to know what happiness is and how to achieve it (Alfarabi, p. 35). Here we come to the idea of...

he defends himself well, Socrates is still found guilty and stoically accepts his fate, indicating that since only the gods are aw...

interaction with the world, ourselves, and others. Our perceptual capacities are not fixed; they are not static or one-dimensiona...

to break up that civilization into smaller units. The point being, love is doomed because society requires multiple, sanitized re...

persuasive arguments, Aristotle mentions three techniques: pathos, ethos and logos (What is logos?) "Pathos" (from which we get th...

expected to develop some form of cancer "or another rapidly debilitating condition and well be dead within a year of getting the d...

was that all humans are born with an inherent worth which he labeled human dignity (Mazur, 1993). He further felt that human dign...

She says: "The question should not be: Do we have something in common-reason, self-consciousness, a soul-with other animals? (With...

culpable. It is true that many other nations, such as France, opposed the war effort in Iraq. Did the U.S. overstep its bounds? Wh...

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

should be accompanied by a synchronized text transcript (closed captioning) and audio announcements should also have a synchronize...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

top the list. The Catholic Church is often quoted as having said, "Give me a child until he is seven and he will always be Catholi...