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Essays 271 - 300
Many contend that while God is all good, man has free will and brings the suffering on himself. At the same time, animals cannot r...
it will occur; which leads to the Conclusion: "no action is free" (Cahn, 1971, 39). Hard determinism argues that these two premi...
"the agent ought to promote the self above other values" (Moseley, 2006). This is not as ugly as it sounds: it goes all the way ba...
actually based on true and accurate assumptions of how actual learning takes place. Many scholars, such as Johnson, argue that the...
and the imagination. However, he states that gaining an idea of self from the presentation given by the senses initially cannot re...
strive for bigger and better opportunities, to reach beyond what has become comfortable and consistent in order to attain that whi...
being" (Burnham, 2001). In order for our universe to have taken on the form that it has, it has been necessary, according t...
does not love and who is better than twenty years older than her. Then, his son goes into the future son-in-laws bank and manages ...
(Amin, 1997; p. 8). In many ways we experience, and have experienced, growth of cultures through diversity, which provides us ...
simple to Descartes, so simple it needs no argument. He basically says that as long as one is thinking, one exists. To Descartes, ...
While Hume appears down to Earth and logical, he is, in a very general sense, a skeptic. He notes that there is a battle between r...
there is continuity through time in terms of personal identity and her doubt about her own continuing identity is contradicted by...
exist myriad philosophies by which people live their lives, which help maintain order and a sense of direction that otherwise woul...
one looks at a variety of lifetimes via reincarnation, its purpose explained by knowledge. In other words, people are born and liv...
and Cavaliers differ somewhat from those that are associated with Europe. What we most often remember in America is the differenc...
past times are given (or as he put it more cautiously, "presupposed") in the present time. It is possible, according to Kant, tha...
II. Facts of the Case The case in question was presented to Lord Justice Ward, Lord Justice Brooke and Lord Justice Robert Wal...
lie to the police, and fabricate "evidence," in order to protect her daughter from possible harm? Or, should she allow her daughte...
have anticipated the degradation that would take place toward the trees, grass and animals, all of whom are just as integral to th...
himself, without mischief reaching at least to his near connexions, and often far beyond them"(Mills,9). John Stuart Mill seemed ...
Brian Vickers portrays Plato as an intellectual Odysseus, stealthily stealing the rhetorical arsenal of the sophists and using it ...
He didnt believe that going to church necessarily related to a relationship with God. He felt that church almost got in the way o...
is anguish all the time, but there is also a sense of joy at the realization that one is inextricably bound with another. This sen...
to attain a better existence for itself, it has inadvertently caused a domino effect when it comes to such personal pursuits. It ...
the buying and selling of human beings. How would a Kantian analyze the ethics of slavery? How might a utilitarian, a social con...
led to alter his position. The old philosophers gave much attention to the issue of knowledge and epistemology. Aristotle ...
Platonic love reflects the deepest love possible between two people, in that it does not abide by the notions of restriction, jeal...
lessons. There is an old saying that claims that those who do not learn from history are bound to repeat it. And although most ag...
are the natural order of things. Are there coincidences, or do no coincidences exist? Much again, has to do with how a person perc...
is the part of a wise man to believe them no further than right reason makes that which they say appear credible." In other words...