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Essays 1741 - 1770

Defending Platonic Philosophy and the Human Soul's Immortality

In eight pages this paper defends Plato's assertion regarding the immortality of the human soul with references made to his text P...

Good Life Defined by Religion and Philosophy

the many delights of civilization, and thus showing Enkidu this type of pleasure is important (PG). Enkidu himself however sees i...

Lying and the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant

In seven pages this research paper examines the ethical theory of Immanuel Kant in a consideration of his lying stance. Four sour...

Philosophy and Pessimism

In five pages this paper examines pessimism and whether or not optimism exists in this philosophical consideration of Voltaire, Sc...

Melting Beeswax and the Philosophy of Rene Descartes

In five pages Descartes' Second Meditation is explored in terms of his analysis of what the perception of melting beeswax would be...

The Philosophy, Meaning, and Value of Being Good

This paper examines the true meaning of the very vague word, good. The author points out that the word has two separate and unique...

Change and the Philosophy of Karl Marx

a relatively ordinary life: parents were moderate middle class He was able to complete school and did go away to college to stud...

Philosophy and Ten Questions

This paper consists of 12 pages and concerns asking famous philosophers such as George Berkeley, Rene Descartes, John Wisdom, Davi...

Private Property and Philosophy

In seven pages this paper discusses private property in a discussion of social contract theory, the views of Rousseau, Hobbes, and...

Issues in Philosophy

This research paper addresses eight specific quetions, offering answers, concerning issues that pertain to Kant, Mill and Aristotl...

James Cameron's Film Titanic and the Existentialist Philosophy of Jean Paul Sartre

This paper applies existentialism to an analysis of the character Jack in the Titanic film by director James Cameron in 5 pages. ...

Three Questions of Philosophy

This 7 page paper explores three different philosophical concents: the design theory, Kant's theories of knowledge and Plato's ide...

Justice as Viewed by the Philosophies of Aristotle and Plato

and the things within it as mere shadows or reflections of a separate world of independently existing, eternal, and unchanging ent...

Wondering About the World in Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes

In five pages the sense of wonder Descartes conjures in his Third Meditation regarding the existence of God is examined. There ar...

Knowledge and the Philosophies of Immanuel Kant, David Hume, Baruch Spinoza, and Rene Descartes

In six pages this paper examines how knowledge theories are philosophically conceptualized by Kant, Hume, Spinoza, and Descartes. ...

Scientific Method Philosophy

in earlier times it was regarded only as the poor relation of quantitative research that nearly always was less reliable and far l...

Case Study Analysis and the Philosophies of John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant

In five pages a case study involving whether or not to have a baby or have an abortion is examined in an application of the theori...

Questions on Personal Philosophies Answered

Crises arise that usher in change, systems achieve equilibrium for a time and then begin to change again, leading to another round...

Questions on the Philosophies of Hume, Kant, and Sartre Answered

acknowledging it as the source from which the mind receives sensory information. However, Kant argued that the mind cannot know th...

Cloning and the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant

manner in order to attain end-E" (Honderich, 1995, p. 436). For example, a person might resolve to pay a bill as soon as it is rec...

Philosophy and False Relativism

of veracity. This is because each segment of humanity is its own little universe and what is held to be truth in one section of th...

Film The Matrix and the Philosophies of Rene Descartes and Jean Paul Sartre

the world, but only derive essence later. In other words, a human is nothing to start with, and the essence of the person comes fr...

Meditations on First Philosophy and Systemic Doubt of Rene Descartes

highest truth and certainty I have learned either from the senses or through the senses" (Descartes 29). But he is quick to note ...

Philosophy Questions and Religion

for example, would exist even if there were no human beings there to see it, but not that colour was an independent spiritual form...

Comparing the Philosophies of Friedrich Nietzsche and Karl Marx

in his own personal progress at the cost of everything else. He was wholly supportive of the scientific community during the Enli...

19th and 20th Century Philosophies of John Dewey, Bertrand Russell, and Richard Rorty

Each criticized the foundationalist approach advocated by Russell. Rorty (1989, 87), for example, insisted:...

Civil Disobedience and Philosophy

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

US Modern Culture and the Pragmatic Philosophy of John Dewey

learning, which was the current philosophy of his day (American Philosopher John Dewey). Since the inception of Deweys e...

Examining Debates Among Competing Philosophies

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

Complexities of Self Philosophy, Language, and Consciousness

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