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became the elite of the country, marginalizing the remaining portions of the population. And while the freed slaves constituted t...

conquered peoples. This, of course, was not due to piety, but rather he believed that once converted to Christianity the German pa...

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

a magnetic cap, so in theory this is essentially a speaker in reverse (Microphone History, 2003). Other than the dynamic...

own artistic style (The Art of Rome, 2003). Greek art went through several different periods as well, the first being the ...

male bias. The purpose of using Malinowskis work as an example of the male bias which permeates both historical and contemp...

"produce rational, good and humane people" (Spartacus Educational, 2001). His argument was that people were inherently good "but t...

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

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...

of lieutenant, but gave up his military commitments when he became professor of physics in 1730: since this mean that he was a ful...

From this perspective, individuals can be viewed as open systems, in which energy is transformed within the body, gaining or losin...

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...

can be found in Zhan Ziqians Spring Excursion. Li Sixun and his son Li Zhaodao in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty were the represen...

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

more flexible, in that it looks at gendered behaviours in terms of context: masculine and feminine behaviours can still be disting...

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

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...

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...

ability to include overhead and indirect costs, and the ability to make allowances for past and future outlays. In many ways we ma...

their ankles (Town of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, 2002). The exact quality of clothing depended on the wealth of the family; altho...

morning and be blown up on a bus or go to a discotheque and be killed in an explosion. These are not unusual scenarios there. For ...

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 ...

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

mainly, helping infertile couples have a batter chance of conception that had been experienced in the past. In other arena...

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