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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...

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...

when they heard the ringing of the bells, for they would associate this with being fed. In Brave New World, behaviorism takes the...

human being from conception to death is encapsulated in a pod. In Platos Cave the only thing that they can see is...

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

Taoism, or flowing with the Tao (Dao) is best translated into English as "The Way", "The Flow of Things", the "Course of Nature", ...

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

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...

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

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...

teachers beliefs, principles, convictions and interpretation of reality are all pertinent. They influence the students and so it i...

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

solution. Rousseau was an individual who attempted to incorporate civil religion as that solution. One author tells us that "Rouss...

here on Earth. This of course, did not go over well with the Church who was used to organizing everyones life on Earth. Reason, th...

normal children do. However, these tasks that ordinary children dont think twice about, offer sincere and daunting challenges to t...

who could argue with that idea? Of course, capital punishment is an ongoing debate and one that has been around for centuries. Als...

course of action is often jumbled. Is the patient cognizant enough to make the correct choices? Many issues come into play when a...

contradictory, which is why he is so controversial. One can take the meaning of Mills writings to suggest that individuality rules...

horrible situations such as one that would deem them a "vegetable" do have some thinking capacity perhaps. Yet, is a disembodied m...

of knowledge through experience, and so is the basis for synthetic statements that are linked to a postiori knowledge. Kant used ...

of the world (1993). Yet, one can see this in action in smaller ways. Another way to look at the world is through the model called...

develops his inquiry into the contention to see if it holds up to scrutiny: SOCRATES: And when a jury is rightly convinced of fact...

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...

and had been released some months earlier (Biodrowski). The novel, which has the subtitle of "The Modern Prometheus," is "a sort o...