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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...

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...

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...

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

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

points which are "1) God is defined as the being in which none greater is possible; 2) It is true that the notion of God exists 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...

first of all, wherever friendship or community flourishes, justice doesnt - and when this fades, justice becomes more important. S...

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

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

not for ones performance, but for his or her actions which may be attributable to a sense of duty (Honderich 323). To some, this m...

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

well as] hard physical work and unhealthy lifestyle" and most donors are sent home after only five days (Tomiuc, 2003). While the ...

defines pornography, which is that they do not know what it is, but they know it when they see it (11). Similarly, it is not out o...

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...

avoids trying to force the same concept of right and wrong upon all of the worlds societies, objectivism believes there is conside...

education, Aquinas was exposed to the work of the ancient Greek philosophers. Throughout his writing , Aquinas worked out a relati...

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

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...

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...

is a case for communism at least for the lower classes. The supporting premises for that conclusion have already been noted and ge...

with happiness, but the instant gratification achieved through immoral pleasure is not as good. It goes beyond that. Does one give...

considerable empirical consideration but one which has yet to be either proved or refuted. Such as statement, therefore is not a ...

In six pages the philosophical and mathematical theories of Rene Descartes are discussed. Four sources are cited in the bibliogra...

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

to treat everyone equally which may mean a policy of affirmative action. One has to recognize race, and then level the playing fie...

that she was much more responsive and seemed to be improving. Still not fully conscious, at times she would be able to "communica...