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

even passive bigotry totally unacceptable to anyone who isnt a kind of a professed Neanderthal. Its changed the sexual culture com...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

eyes," but finds this awkward as he "self-consciously" sees a Gethenian "first as a man, then as a woman, forcing him into those c...

to do so. Those of us that do not smoke resent the fact that everywhere we go we are confronted with second hand smoke. When you...

there a time when an individuals interests supersede those of the masses? These are ethical questions posed each and everyday thr...

occurs during rainfall and snowmelts as well as from atmospheric deposits. Nonpoint sources can include everything from stormwate...

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

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...

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

of the most important philosophers when talking about knowledge and where it comes from. His explanation suggests that there is a ...

doctrine established in Plessy v Ferguson in 1896 that kept the black and white races legally separate for 70 years. The aparthei...

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

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

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

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