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led to alter his position. The old philosophers gave much attention to the issue of knowledge and epistemology. Aristotle ...
Platonic love reflects the deepest love possible between two people, in that it does not abide by the notions of restriction, jeal...
lessons. There is an old saying that claims that those who do not learn from history are bound to repeat it. And although most ag...
behind progress in other areas. I. Introduction When a Bichon Frise was thrown into traffic and killed early in 2000, due to ...
be the greater injustice. It can be contended that Socrates was correct, that the death penalty is an important tool for insuring...
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...
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 ...
What comes out of a courtroom is not necessarily truth, but which side argues best. The Sophists prided themselves on the use of p...
of these seemingly paradoxical perspectives on the nature of society and the role of the individual in society. Plato appears to ...
However, we can also argue that the proof f this truth made no difference to whether the belief was true, being true even before i...
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...
in order to establish a firm foundation of understanding in his or her life. In knowledge there is inherent value and wealth; dwe...
This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...
in his infamous work On Liberty, he relays that idea. Joplins idea is quite a philosophical, intangible view of freedom as it sug...
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...
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...
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 ...
of science there are two branches which are epistemology and metaphysics (Honderich, 1995). Science makes up an important part of ...
obviously see elements of the man who wrote the story, for Kafka is often considered to be an individual who deeply examined his w...
the street ... must and will reflect our personal moral standards" (Reavley, 2001). Those moral standards, Reavley implies, must ...
importance and children were to be guarded from superfluous information to come from for example poetry and literature. Rather, th...
the layers are slowly and systematically peeled away, revealing increasingly more of the personality of the individual (Williams, ...