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agree with Aristotles ideas, and see morality as a living concept, and something that should not be tampered with. What might Aris...

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

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

In six pages this paper analyzes the contention of Socrates that an 'unexamined life is not worth living' as this view is represen...

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

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...

In five pages Aristotle's concept of happiness with an emphasis upon a life of contemplation is discussed. Five sources are cited...

of subjective satisfaction (Seifert, 2003). Moral goodness just is. One looks at a baby or a puppy and thinks that these living th...

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...

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 ...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

what one wants, and visualizing it, that one will eventually be free from the gnawing desire. This is true either through attainme...

or sight) was subjected to each individuals standards of judgment. Whereas concrete facts were not changeable or subject to ones i...

This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...

In this way, Buddhism became accessible to all, and was able to develop the concept of community which...

Rosenzweig began to struggle with his beliefs regarding Judaism as a young adult. He serious...

considered his philosophy to be heresy. Abbey (2004) notes that the work which gained Diderot the charge of disseminating pornogr...

and their duty, and allowing them to share the advantages of education and government with man," which Wollstonecraft indicates wi...

of dressing appropriately for the formal work environment. What if you long for the outdoors and physical activity? It is a clich?...

that Piaget didnt recognize that children could learn from their environment, however. Indeed, Piagets work reinforced the common...

lived in a society where multifetal pregnancy reduction was a socially acceptable alternative to the numerous fetuses produced by ...