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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...

the only way to arrive at this point, he seems to be saying, is to carefully examine anything that one believes with the yardstick...

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...

Introduction The issues surrounding abortion are complex to say the least. People are polarized on the issue...

morning and be blown up on a bus or go to a discotheque and be killed in an explosion. These are not unusual scenarios there. For ...

childhood, during his early life, Socrates was a sculptor, following in the footsteps of his father, Sophroniscus (Wikpedia, 2003)...

Hume presented his arguments in a pair of treatises that are still considered required reading for any student of Western philosop...

conditions and development; contrarily, humanity may also perceive the world as a more direct understanding based upon their spiri...

life fulfillment and that a disabled individual should be allowed to die because their quality of life will not allow them to find...

it, these are all abstractions on the concept of the apple in the first place. These notions could not be made without the immedi...

achieve this level of human excellence by adhering to the fourteen axioms acts of Nicomachean Ethics, which included gentility, ho...

in order to establish a firm foundation of understanding in his or her life. In knowledge there is inherent value and wealth; dwe...

the topic of education. He says, "Next, said I, compare our nature in respect of education and its lack to such an experience as t...

This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...

public opinion than when in opposition to it" (Mill 76). When assessing the notion of progress and how it related to Mills...

exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transcendence then exceeds all human capacity. This concept is not foreign to the re...

in his infamous work On Liberty, he relays that idea. Joplins idea is quite a philosophical, intangible view of freedom as it sug...

In five pages this paper examines the Bourdieu and Kant philosophical views represented in these texts by Barker and Du Maurier. ...

commandment "thou shalt not kill", for example, are forced to re-examine their views in the light of military service in wartime, ...

the standards movement. This "default" philosophy emerges from a behaviorist, positivists background that places great emphasis...

where nothing detrimental occurs. In fact, Fast Company publishes ethical problems and lies that contributors send in on an annual...

power to enforce decisions (Lloyd, 2002). Hobbes also believed that an absolute monarchy was prefereable to other forms of govern...

what was passing in the world around them, to the realm of re-presentative intellect. An external phenomenon is thus translated i...

holds that terms such as "good" and "right" are defined on the basis of which behavior provides the greatest benefit to the larges...

administration that is tied to a clandestine love affair. Forbes prints a small article regarding another type of conflict of inte...

in Modern Thought points to two cataclysmic moments in history that were responsible for altering the contemporary perceptions of ...

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...

meaningless activities of play, for example, could have a tremendous impact on the development of the child. He identified four c...