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Essays 511 - 540
what Descartes believed to be the existence of humanity and humanitys understanding of what knowledge truly is. In a comparison of...
Sisyphus himself perceives his condition....
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...
well-being but our physical well-being also. For instance, Terry (54) tells us that music has been widely recommended as a techni...
are the natural order of things. Are there coincidences, or do no coincidences exist? Much again, has to do with how a person perc...
himself, without mischief reaching at least to his near connexions, and often far beyond them"(Mills,9). John Stuart Mill seemed ...
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...
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...
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 only way to arrive at this point, he seems to be saying, is to carefully examine anything that one believes with the yardstick...
the time, today people are faced with decisions and can decide to be honest or face dire consequences. Journalists today sometimes...
also be allowed to have their own private property. In Aristotles belief, man is inherently born sinful. Because of this ...
contradictory, which is why he is so controversial. One can take the meaning of Mills writings to suggest that individuality rules...
In six pages this paper discusses evil in the world in a consideration of philosophical perspectives offered in the Bible, Night b...
In ten pages this research paper advocates an abridgement to the 1st Amendment that would prohibit hate speech in the U.S. with a ...
12 pages and 9 sources. This paper provides an overview of the issue of the validity of sexual abuse claims made by children. Th...
In six pages this paper examines the philosophical attempts to reconcile morality and law in a consideration of such theorists as ...
2. What historical, cultural, and religious factors have shaped the concept of human rights in Russia? What legal and constitution...
for social control and the exercise of power, on the other. All government, indeed, all institutions of society, exist along this ...
who could argue with that idea? Of course, capital punishment is an ongoing debate and one that has been around for centuries. Als...
it, these are all abstractions on the concept of the apple in the first place. These notions could not be made without the immedi...
horrible situations such as one that would deem them a "vegetable" do have some thinking capacity perhaps. Yet, is a disembodied m...