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well-being but our physical well-being also. For instance, Terry (54) tells us that music has been widely recommended as a techni...

Power is behind all that we perceive, then the Higher Power would be a deceitful one. Descartes arrives at this conclusion becaus...

(Nietzsche, 1974). It does seem to be true that when someone supports old institutions and mainstays they are applauded by the lar...

world, one would find the "ideal tree of which all trees which we see are copies, the ideal house and ideas of all other objects i...

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

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

constructed and the meaning made perfectly clear so that all understand what types of behavior will be tolerated and which will no...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

contributions to ethical and social theory" (Anonymous John Stuart Mill 1806-1873, 2002; MILL.HTM). In his work "Principles of ...

of the same) is "reason" rather than the self-conscious "I." One may then extend the concept from ethical ideas to morality, whic...

Camus relates the substance of the Greek myth and how Sisyphus was condemned to endlessly roll a rock up a hill in the underworld,...

the old mans money to the poor. While he fears being found out, when he is, the people not only forgive him, but elect him their n...

strive for bigger and better opportunities, to reach beyond what has become comfortable and consistent in order to attain that whi...

of that century, the French philosopher, Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) developed his metaphysical theories known as "occasionali...

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...

not merely things to be used to reach ones goal, but are sentient beings with worth beyond measure. The golden rule may be interp...

corporate, organized around a concept of ultimate reality" (9). The reality conjured by these beliefs, actions and experiences ca...

but in those areas where the student was lagging a remediation course was offered in-house for the student. This seems logical, si...

Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...

will a universal law" (Immanuel Kant). In ethics of choice, Kantian philosophy dictates that intention or consequences can ...

This, he asserted, was mans freedom of the will, in which people are able to determine their own choices, rather than be automatic...

believed that everything we had heard to the contrary from the Martin Luther Kings and the Roy Wilkinses and the Whiteny Youngs wa...

In order to explore his general theory, it pays to look at his Second Treatise of Civil Government. It is rather compelling and ...