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Essays 1471 - 1500
Crises arise that usher in change, systems achieve equilibrium for a time and then begin to change again, leading to another round...
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...
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...
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...
highest truth and certainty I have learned either from the senses or through the senses" (Descartes 29). But he is quick to note ...
and their duty, and allowing them to share the advantages of education and government with man," which Wollstonecraft indicates wi...
what is real and what is perceived, and the one is not dependent on the other. Naturalism states that it is the laws of nature whi...
Power is behind all that we perceive, then the Higher Power would be a deceitful one. Descartes arrives at this conclusion becaus...
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...
well-being but our physical well-being also. For instance, Terry (54) tells us that music has been widely recommended as a techni...
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...
of that century, the French philosopher, Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) developed his metaphysical theories known as "occasionali...
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,...
(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...
permission. Abraham Lincoln promoted the Platonic view in his Gettysburg Address in saying that the government should be "of the ...
Each criticized the foundationalist approach advocated by Russell. Rorty (1989, 87), for example, insisted:...
agree with Aristotles ideas, and see morality as a living concept, and something that should not be tampered with. What might Aris...
dilemma of a single woman who is part of what the politicians and social scientists refer to as a member of the "working poor" soc...
of subjective satisfaction (Seifert, 2003). Moral goodness just is. One looks at a baby or a puppy and thinks that these living th...
In five pages Aristotle's concept of happiness with an emphasis upon a life of contemplation is discussed. Five sources are cited...
In five pages this essay discusses Descartes' reality in terms of deconstruction and reconstruction. There are no other sources l...
in earlier times it was regarded only as the poor relation of quantitative research that nearly always was less reliable and far l...
In ten pages this paper answers 3 questions on artificial intelligence and cognitive behavior, subject and object approaches, and ...
The poor in America are considered in a paper consisting of five pages in which various ethical philosophical perspectives includi...
In five pages this paper discusses how human standards can be lived up to in a consideration of the Old Testament's unrighteousnes...