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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

2004). John Stuart Mills, in his book Utilitarianism, further stated that not all forms of pleasure were of equal value (Free-Defi...

new. The result was the death of the brand, all ferries were gradually changed to P&O ferries, the name of the parent company, but...

conclusions. Most logical claims can be refuted. Thus, logic in some way is not much better than perception. At least, one can say...

the company as well as its profitability is important to him. Ellis will likely want to go for the deal but the situation does get...

writer/tutor reviews Staels text in chronological order, the student researching this topic may wish to contrast and compare the ...

humans should be moral we often think of the works of those major philosophers who adamantly supported morality. We look to great...

natures regiment. As such, familiarity does not lend itself to unaccountability or being troublesome to understand. Why, then, w...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...