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certainty. I might as well take a shower. I hurried, in an effort to at least reduce the amount of time I would walk into the door...

is real? Again, the Cartesian Cogito is something that resolves the problem for some. Still, this is a problem that many philosoph...

ideas. As we shall soon see, through these speeches Plato seems to have reasoned out how it is that mankind make their way from th...

of these seemingly paradoxical perspectives on the nature of society and the role of the individual in society. Plato appears to ...

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

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...

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

permission. Abraham Lincoln promoted the Platonic view in his Gettysburg Address in saying that the government should be "of the ...

scientifically managed (Accel, 2003). Taylor had particular objectives for scientific management which are still used today in man...

We can better understand this by invoking a comparison. A generalist would demand sameness in terms of how something functions ca...

considerable empirical consideration but one which has yet to be either proved or refuted. Such as statement, therefore is not a ...

This is found in Descartes work Meditations and is referred to as substance dualism, which is also known as Cartesian interactioni...

should be used to silence the opinions of others makes the implied assumption that his opinions are infallible. Mill grants that i...

charges of impiety and corruption of youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens ("Socrates," 2003). While this ph...

living on the edge. Reckless and Kaplan do have similar ideas but it pays to take a look at each of their theories and also the co...

of subjective satisfaction (Seifert, 2003). Moral goodness just is. One looks at a baby or a puppy and thinks that these living th...

must recognize that the consciousness (cit) is a separate phenomena which is present regardless of the presence or absence of stim...

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...

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...

biotechnology can easily run up to tens of thousands of pages, including text and diagrams (Malone, 2002). Each one must be read w...

worthy but they are not. This leads Kant to further defining what makes good will different from bad will: "A good will is good...

that she was much more responsive and seemed to be improving. Still not fully conscious, at times she would be able to "communica...

the "moral" issues which have been registered in regards to two or more human sharing the same genetic code (DNA). This cannot pro...

that the world is undergoing a period of economic globalization and political fragmentation. If one accepts that as truth, one c...

is a case for communism at least for the lower classes. The supporting premises for that conclusion have already been noted and ge...