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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 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...
human understanding. He saw the concept as being equated with something that exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transce...
In five pages this paper examines the Bourdieu and Kant philosophical views represented in these texts by Barker and Du Maurier. ...
commandment "thou shalt not kill", for example, are forced to re-examine their views in the light of military service in wartime, ...
(Kemerling, 2002). Lacking professional teacher training, Socrates elected to do some "free-wheeling" by partaking of spirited di...
Even in the absence of hard and fast codes of ethics such as those that exist for some professions, there are certain basic guidel...
gear pedagogy accordingly, politicians, policymakers and the public at-large are still "stuck" in the old paradigm, which states t...
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...
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...
This paper examines the true meaning of the very vague word, good. The author points out that the word has two separate and unique...
In five pages knowledge in terms of concept, foundation, and actual application as perceived by Russell is examined within the con...
In five pages Descartes' Second Meditation is explored in terms of his analysis of what the perception of melting beeswax would be...
what Descartes believed to be the existence of humanity and humanitys understanding of what knowledge truly is. In a comparison of...
In twenty pages this paper examines Great Britain's post compulsory education from political, cultural, and socioeconomic perspect...
texts The Republic and Crito, Plato learned his lessons well. In both works, Plato theorizes what justice is through deductive re...
In five pages this paper examines pessimism and whether or not optimism exists in this philosophical consideration of Voltaire, Sc...
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...
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...
but in those areas where the student was lagging a remediation course was offered in-house for the student. This seems logical, si...
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...
This, he asserted, was mans freedom of the will, in which people are able to determine their own choices, rather than be automatic...
will a universal law" (Immanuel Kant). In ethics of choice, Kantian philosophy dictates that intention or consequences can ...
Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...
In seventeen pages this paper examines the philosophical concept of evil and then considers 'necessary evil' within the contexts o...