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

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...

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

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

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

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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...

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

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...

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

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

once again began drawing air into his lungs illustrates how this is not necessarily a definitive component of being dead. As such...

reason" (Schlumpf 59). In modern society, there are enormous pressures that tempt business people to take shortcuts in order to ...

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...

possible fat man in that doorway; and again, the possible bald man in that doorway. Are they the same possible men, or two possibl...

with the profits generated from their production of greater importance than the care and welfare of the animals (505). During the...

Hobbes believed that people, when left to their own governance, that is, without official laws and government, live in continual...

problems in the industry. Yet, while it is arguable as to the degree of safety problems inherent in the industry, it is safe to sa...