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Essays 631 - 660
highest truth and certainty I have learned either from the senses or through the senses" (Descartes 29). But he is quick to note ...
manner in order to attain end-E" (Honderich, 1995, p. 436). For example, a person might resolve to pay a bill as soon as it is rec...
of veracity. This is because each segment of humanity is its own little universe and what is held to be truth in one section of th...
trade. Barbaric pursuits held no interest, and the Chinese certainly knew their medicine and culture were vastly superior. ...
to living their lives at the mercy of their rulers. The vote for colonial democracy was a vote for the freedoms that are intrinsi...
who consistently place the needs of others above their own. The individuals who do this seemingly so naturally often can be diffi...
Essentially, the allegory likens those who remain unaware of forms to prisoners chained in a cave, and they cannot turn their head...
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...
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...
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...
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...
We can better understand this by invoking a comparison. A generalist would demand sameness in terms of how something functions ca...
charges of impiety and corruption of youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens ("Socrates," 2003). While this ph...
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...
it, these are all abstractions on the concept of the apple in the first place. These notions could not be made without the immedi...
also be allowed to have their own private property. In Aristotles belief, man is inherently born sinful. Because of this ...
the time, today people are faced with decisions and can decide to be honest or face dire consequences. Journalists today sometimes...
for social control and the exercise of power, on the other. All government, indeed, all institutions of society, exist along this ...
once again began drawing air into his lungs illustrates how this is not necessarily a definitive component of being dead. As such...
persuasive arguments, Aristotle mentions three techniques: pathos, ethos and logos (What is logos?) "Pathos" (from which we get th...
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...
reason" (Schlumpf 59). In modern society, there are enormous pressures that tempt business people to take shortcuts in order to ...
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...