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Issues in Philosophy

This research paper addresses eight specific quetions, offering answers, concerning issues that pertain to Kant, Mill and Aristotl...

Meditations on First Philosophy and the Logic of Rene Descartes

In five pages this essay discusses Descartes' reality in terms of deconstruction and reconstruction. There are no other sources l...

Standards to Live Up to Based Upon Philosophies and Theories

In five pages this paper discusses how human standards can be lived up to in a consideration of the Old Testament's unrighteousnes...

Philosophy of Science Questions

In ten pages this paper answers 3 questions on artificial intelligence and cognitive behavior, subject and object approaches, and ...

James Cameron's Film Titanic and the Existentialist Philosophy of Jean Paul Sartre

This paper applies existentialism to an analysis of the character Jack in the Titanic film by director James Cameron in 5 pages. ...

Wondering About the World in Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes

In five pages the sense of wonder Descartes conjures in his Third Meditation regarding the existence of God is examined. There ar...

Justice as Viewed by the Philosophies of Aristotle and Plato

and the things within it as mere shadows or reflections of a separate world of independently existing, eternal, and unchanging ent...

Knowledge and the Philosophies of Immanuel Kant, David Hume, Baruch Spinoza, and Rene Descartes

In six pages this paper examines how knowledge theories are philosophically conceptualized by Kant, Hume, Spinoza, and Descartes. ...

Three Questions of Philosophy

This 7 page paper explores three different philosophical concents: the design theory, Kant's theories of knowledge and Plato's ide...

US Modern Culture and the Pragmatic Philosophy of John Dewey

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

'Unexamined Life' Philosophy of Socrates

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

Meditations on First Philosophy and Systemic Doubt of Rene Descartes

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

Intelligence Theories and Philosophy

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...

Philosophy Questions and Religion

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

Comparing the Philosophies of Friedrich Nietzsche and Karl Marx

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

Meaning and Philosophy

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

God's Existence and Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes

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

Hypothetical Scenario and an Application of the Philosophies of Jean Jacques Rousseau and Immanuel Kant

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...

Reflections on the Philosophy of Albert Camus

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

Social Philosophy, Distribution, and Production According to John Stuart Mill

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

Happiness and Wisdom in Philosophy

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

Philosophy Q and A

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...

Philosophies of Ayn Rand and Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Philosophy and the Relationship Between the Body and the Mind

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

Nietzsche's Philosophy

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

Music Philosophy

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

Philosophy of Martin Heidegger and Transcendence

In five pages the transcendence theory of Martin Heidegger is discussed and compared with those of Friedrich Nietzsche. Four sour...

Meditations on the First Philosophy by Rene Descartes and 'Freeing the Mind'

In five pages this paper examines the French philosopher's text as it explains his approaches to recognizing knowledge that is 'tr...

19th and 20th Century Philosophies of John Dewey, Bertrand Russell, and Richard Rorty

Each criticized the foundationalist approach advocated by Russell. Rorty (1989, 87), for example, insisted:...

Civil Disobedience and Philosophy

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