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Essays 1321 - 1350
not merely things to be used to reach ones goal, but are sentient beings with worth beyond measure. The golden rule may be interp...
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...
strive for bigger and better opportunities, to reach beyond what has become comfortable and consistent in order to attain that whi...
in earlier times it was regarded only as the poor relation of quantitative research that nearly always was less reliable and far l...
acknowledging it as the source from which the mind receives sensory information. However, Kant argued that the mind cannot know th...
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...
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...
constructed and the meaning made perfectly clear so that all understand what types of behavior will be tolerated and which will no...
highest truth and certainty I have learned either from the senses or through the senses" (Descartes 29). But he is quick to note ...
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...
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...
of subjective satisfaction (Seifert, 2003). Moral goodness just is. One looks at a baby or a puppy and thinks that these living th...
In five pages Aristotle's concept of happiness with an emphasis upon a life of contemplation is discussed. Five sources are cited...
Each criticized the foundationalist approach advocated by Russell. Rorty (1989, 87), for example, insisted:...
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 ...
agree with Aristotles ideas, and see morality as a living concept, and something that should not be tampered with. What might Aris...
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 a case study involving whether or not to have a baby or have an abortion is examined in an application of the theori...
must recognize that the consciousness (cit) is a separate phenomena which is present regardless of the presence or absence of stim...
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...
doubt and thought. If he thinks, then he exists: at least, his mind exists, since what he knows of his body is dependent, again, o...
believed that everything we had heard to the contrary from the Martin Luther Kings and the Roy Wilkinses and the Whiteny Youngs wa...
It is further rather specific in that it notes particular parts of history which ultimately culminates in a state of communism (19...
an almost detached amusement. He describes them rushing about, in a hurry to get to work and to work as hard as they can. However,...
In six pages this paper analyzes the contention of Socrates that an 'unexamined life is not worth living' as this view is represen...
what is real and what is perceived, and the one is not dependent on the other. Naturalism states that it is the laws of nature whi...
Hume presented his arguments in a pair of treatises that are still considered required reading for any student of Western philosop...