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Essays 691 - 720
are the natural order of things. Are there coincidences, or do no coincidences exist? Much again, has to do with how a person perc...
(Amin, 1997; p. 8). In many ways we experience, and have experienced, growth of cultures through diversity, which provides us ...
simple to Descartes, so simple it needs no argument. He basically says that as long as one is thinking, one exists. To Descartes, ...
While Hume appears down to Earth and logical, he is, in a very general sense, a skeptic. He notes that there is a battle between r...
Brian Vickers portrays Plato as an intellectual Odysseus, stealthily stealing the rhetorical arsenal of the sophists and using it ...
He didnt believe that going to church necessarily related to a relationship with God. He felt that church almost got in the way o...
is anguish all the time, but there is also a sense of joy at the realization that one is inextricably bound with another. This sen...
to attain a better existence for itself, it has inadvertently caused a domino effect when it comes to such personal pursuits. It ...
well-being but our physical well-being also. For instance, Terry (54) tells us that music has been widely recommended as a techni...
the fetus. Pro-choice individuals often argue that the fetus is nothing more than a part of the womans body, with no more signific...
He and a group of utilitarians formed a small Utilitarian Society based on many of the writings of Bentham. His many works appeare...
political ends, one should do so through peace and peaceful activism, and not through violence. There were many other philosophica...
world, few governments would allow either situation to exist. Yet, it would be troubling for anyone to be completely dominated by ...
Sisyphus himself perceives his condition....
past times are given (or as he put it more cautiously, "presupposed") in the present time. It is possible, according to Kant, tha...
tendencies within society and the fact that people are far too concerned with their own well being to fend for those who cannot fe...
Many contend that while God is all good, man has free will and brings the suffering on himself. At the same time, animals cannot r...
one looks at a variety of lifetimes via reincarnation, its purpose explained by knowledge. In other words, people are born and liv...
and Cavaliers differ somewhat from those that are associated with Europe. What we most often remember in America is the differenc...
Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...
Theravada Buddhism was the original form, which was based on lengthy meditation and required...
was changing in terms of philosophy. John Lockes The Second Treatise of Civil Government is rather compelling and in fact, free ch...
personal desire to do so, rather than depending upon automatic reaction or stimulation. "The skeptic, therefore, had better keep ...
not merely things to be used to reach ones goal, but are sentient beings with worth beyond measure. The golden rule may be interp...
what Descartes believed to be the existence of humanity and humanitys understanding of what knowledge truly is. In a comparison of...
particularly when a known controversial figure assisted the act? What happened was that Thomas Youk was given a lethal injectio...
In five pages this paper examines pessimism and whether or not optimism exists in this philosophical consideration of Voltaire, Sc...
Barbour, time is merely an illusion (Anonymous, 2000). In his ruminations on time, Augustine contemplates the subjectivity of tim...
In five pages a philosophical explanation of world events is attempted and the Pakistani position following the World Trade Center...
as action vs. inaction, doer vs. writer and philosopher, and primitivism vs. modernism. The erudite English narrator of Zorba the...