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gave the commencement speech at his daughters graduation from Radcliffe, he concisely summed up the essence of what he found to be...
for existence in which the fittest members of a varying population survive, reproduce, and pass on their traits to the next genera...
However, Allen also makes the point that Platos attitude was at least partially due to his respect and fear of the powers of art o...
philosophical thought begs to differ. In the pre-Plato period, for example, the prevailing belief was that pleasure was immediate ...
cause of the effect must possess as much reality as the effect. Furthermore, Descartes asserts that any cause must have as much p...
and non-rational elements. Of the non-rational, the autonomic responses (breathing, sleeping, digesting, and reproducing) is commo...
In the context of a greater philosophy perhaps, a philosopher says what he thinks. Yet, he is unwittingly part of a grand plan. Wh...
that created a chasm between the haves and the "have nots." With people working for the government, and each getting an equal stip...
modification, which dispels ignorance" (Mohanty, 2001). When we cognize we abate ignorance....
and "advisors" were, in many ways, far more powerful than the aristocrat holding office. Machiavelli himself was such a creature ...
individual who naturally believes in true equality and empowerment across the entire population. The reasons it becomes so confusi...
wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves social needs. A number of philosophers have contributed to the debate which...
address the problems of individualism in our contemporary society. While Wests "Race Matters" makes a frontal attack on these pro...
arguments these days is that one would not want a physician operating on one when the physician is using marijuana on his off hour...
the work goes on to Part II and is headed Metaphysical first principles of the doctrine of virtue. This is also further subdivided...
challenged mankinds very conscience. He retreated to Walden Pond in order to refresh his own character and to effectively remove ...
the effects of "Original Sin" (Hundersmarck 133). While Machiavelli agreed with this stance, he did not do so because of theology....
that the morality of choice is based on the greater good. The saying, "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" arise...
and that is that it enables both freedom and necessity to coexist; it favors an ethical reliance on moral deterrence without brini...
that they are reconstructions of a world that never quite existed...but whose beauty...seductiveness, lies precisely in that mixtu...
as a morally acceptable act from a Utilitarian point of view. Many philosophical and sociological questions loom over this issue...
in the article "Key Iraqi weapons official held" in relation to topics studied in the roots of Western Culture deal primarily with...
US manufacturing was benefiting from the attention to quality, whether specific organizations chose to implement TQM or not. Thos...
words, "how does one KNOW that this is the truth". Most of Socrates teaching took place on the steps of a Lyceum, much like an a...
In four pages concepts of religion, God, and transcendence are considered in a comparative analysis of Kant's philosophy and Hegel...
a mirror which no stone can crack, whose quicksilver will never wear off, whose gilding Nature continually repairs" (Thoreau 188)....
When the Keynesian revolution started, there was less concern about the supply side factors. Keynesian economics developed in res...
present impression, the sight of a flame, for instance, results in a causal relationship in the mind of the observer between flame...
not make up an ethical life. Rather, he based his ideas on his own ideas concerning reason, but he did so within the context of hi...
occurred. One of the only things that one can find to argue about Locke is that he eventually becomes as inflexible as the rest o...