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In nineteen pages this paper discusses the philosophical education of teenager Sophie Amundsen in Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder'...

the soul. In understanding the influence the pre-Socratics had, it is beneficial to consider some of the major questions and the ...

said that one can easily recognize in an educated mind the ability to entertain a thought without accepting it; Aristotle taught t...

In five pages this report examines the qualities of being human in terms of being and becoming in the individual and incorporates ...

the meditations is not to prove what they establish, but rather to show how the world of physics could be mapped reliably and inde...

a prison takeover (Burke, 1995). Though unusual, if something like that were to happen, officials would be at an extreme disadvant...

In seven pages differences that exist between Eastern and Western philosophies are considered with references made to Zen and the ...

in the Peloponnesian War, which ended in a resounding defeat for Athens in 404 B.C. (Levinson ix-x). While it can be assumed that...

problem is that in 1970, it was suggested that Nestle was profiting at the expense of third world mothers. While breast-feeding is...

can one know what is beautiful or what is ugly? There must be some sort of shared experience. Plato uses a cave allegory--somethi...

(Saxonhouse, 1998). This is something thought not to lead to violence, but rather to a profound gentleness (Saxonhouse, 1998). In ...

like the male philosophers of the day. She was the exception. While by and large, the people saw women as having a subservient pla...

in turn functions to accentuate the bodys passage through time. Myriad philosophers, psychologists and sociologists have at...

critics, his reputation and fame has never been truly compromised. He has added a great deal in terms of thought in a variety of d...

Indeed, it seems that within the context of philosophy, there is a wrestling with religious thought, because it is from the rejec...

have been utilized in both historical and contemporary politics: (a) The use of diplomacy and the formation of coalitions; (b) Vio...

challenged mankinds very conscience. He retreated to Walden Pond in order to refresh his own character and to effectively remove ...

our understanding of language, democracy, the individual (self), within both the public and private spheres. Rorty notes, for exa...

ethical, philosophical, and moral issues that characterize the one delivery mechanism also characterize the other. A particular c...

in such a case: 1. They can tell the child what happened. 2. They can pretend that they dont know what happened. 3. They...

guessing his parents. An eight year old may argue that it is proper for him to go to a particular event by himself, but his parent...

youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...

education is still substantially elevated in contemporary culture. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees virtue as choice and so mora...

It is in the Second Meditation, however, that the apparent flaw in his logic appears and gives rise to the Cartesian Circle. In th...

knowledge has long been purported as the only viable means by which mankind truly knows how and if something exists; without empir...

philosophers and playwrights, addressed themselves to the reality of the absurdity of life and argued that that its reality should...

by the theory of monism (Turner). The greatest strength of monism appears to be its simplicity: it admits of only one underlying c...

in his account when he passed away. The email provider Yahoo claimed that due to a terms of service agreement, they could not allo...

long and interesting historical evolution, and its origins are largely responsible for the reluctance of allopathic medical profes...

to heart disease and diabetes (Webster, 1999). Thanks to biogenetics, in fact, researchers can grow human cells in the laboratory ...