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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...

importance and children were to be guarded from superfluous information to come from for example poetry and literature. Rather, th...

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...

the layers are slowly and systematically peeled away, revealing increasingly more of the personality of the individual (Williams, ...

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...

public opinion than when in opposition to it" (Mill 76). When assessing the notion of progress and how it related to Mills...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

It is the spiritual and unconditional love for another person. The self, in essence, must be entirely removed from the equation. ...

information we get today, seems to argues such things as the benefits of something but the dangers of that same item. Today people...

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...