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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...
no matter how insignificant or trite they may seem. However, it would seem that he believed that there were at least two types of ...
is on a morphine drip to which there is attached only one instruction: decrease the drip when respirations reach four per minute....
after his death would become the worlds largest retailer. In principle and on paper at least, Wal-Mart still operates on th...
power. For example, Machiavelli points out that the ruler becomes great in the eyes of the people by overcoming difficulties and o...
of that century, the French philosopher, Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) developed his metaphysical theories known as "occasionali...
will a universal law" (Immanuel Kant). In ethics of choice, Kantian philosophy dictates that intention or consequences can ...
In eight pages this paper examines war reporting with the emphasis upon Afghanistan terrorism in a consideration of how the media ...
In eight pages the idealistic philosophy of William Godwin is examined. Four sources are listed in the bibliography....
This, he asserted, was mans freedom of the will, in which people are able to determine their own choices, rather than be automatic...
his particular notions; some of these are, in brief, that every person should have equal access to basic liberties and also that s...
to the role of an international statesman; through his efforts, he ultimately ended up as a role model for many American youths wh...
Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...
do was make sure students could read and write properly and have the skills necessary to access they type of knowledge that was ou...
think, therefore I am" (Frost 2550. From this Descartes reasoned a body of ideas that he did not believe could be disputed, as th...
In twelve pages this paper discusses international relations in a consideration of the European Union's philosophies as they relat...
Know You Know? According to Waittenmaker (1999), research has demonstrated that it is an individuals background knowledge that ha...
noted for acerbity or harshness in his work; even though he was in many respects critical of the way in which contemporary society...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the philosophies of Thomas Paine and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Three sources are cited...
Theravada Buddhism was the original form, which was based on lengthy meditation and required...
and the construction company wants to get on with their job of building whatever. Henry David Thoreau, in Walden Pond, written i...
only in the perception of the one who desires it....
and the use of technology in the form of the atomic bomb laid waste to the concept of an egalitarian Utopia. The postwar world us...
expensive roadster, and momentarily loses control of the car, striking and killing a woman, Myrtle Wilson, whom readers later lear...
In five pages this paper discusses how the U.S. Civil War was the result of competing philosophies of states rights vs. a centrali...
theory is brought forth numerous times throughout Aristotles well-read and well-quoted Nichomachean Ethics. Aristotles vie...
not merely things to be used to reach ones goal, but are sentient beings with worth beyond measure. The golden rule may be interp...
might Descartes for example deal with the problem? A student writing on this subject will want to point out that the primary dilem...
In six pages the media coverage of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks is evaluated in terms of ethics and then applies the p...
determines that moral decisions are established as a result of moral sentiment rather than understanding. In the first section o...