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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...

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

In sixteen pages this paper analyzes privacy from the perspective of philosophy. Twenty four sources are cited in the bibliograph...

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

eye can see as opposed to mere speculation about what might be. Of course, objections would be other theories that for example God...

In five pages the pros and cons of drug legalization are assessed from a philosophical perspective. Four sources are cited in the...

Irish bishop, feared that the philosophies and science of his era were constituting a threat to Christian faith, due to their prom...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

"endowed with special grace or powers" (Christian, 2008). It is easy to understand how such claims are perpetuated and reinforced:...

to explore the views of human nature of Plato and other thinkers, as well as how these views were expressed in governmental form. ...

as a bridge so that people with different understandings can nevertheless come to understand and appreciate one anothers views. ...

view is that the appetite for wisdom is the most noble of the possible forces that can drive humanity, and as such, the one which ...

In a paper of nine pages, the writer looks at the topic of same-sex marriage. Frameworks such as religion, politics, and ethical p...

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...

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

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 ...

"sex-obsessed," but Frieda argues that Lawrence was "simply pro-human" and that because D.H. Lawrence wrote what he did, "...the y...

offers reasonable, logical analysis in order to justify his political views that inequities in European society were not based on ...