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Essays 391 - 420
identifies Schopenhauers most distinctive contribution to philosophy as his "insistence that Will is more basic than thought to bo...
power. For example, Machiavelli points out that the ruler becomes great in the eyes of the people by overcoming difficulties and o...
understanding. For example, Kants The Critique of Pure Reason (1781) begins with the words: "There can be no doubt that all our kn...
the solider represents the state and the people are merely innocent bystanders. At the same time, during a draft, one could also a...
their Doubts, and to confirm them at last in a perfect Skepticism" (47). Locke...
lying promise is something that is said in order to achieve a favorable outcome. What if someone has a gun to the victims childs h...
when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." And, for 20th century Catholic theologian Josef Pieper (1904-97), Gods role in...
ability to allow us the opportunity to interpret the rational through the concrete forms presented in art. Hegel believed that ...
(2000) presents his argument, his thesis, in stating that "I want to raise and examine the possibility that, however much we came ...
of yourself and your natural abilities, or your position in society. You know nothing of your sex, race, nationality, or individua...
it was necessary to develop an account of human nature....
being destroyed, ironically enough, by the very systems designed to preserve them. In his book, he manages to leave no one in th...
a larger number of people were appraised of the issues. Understanding who these past groups were allows one to adequately compare...
deal of power into one ruler (or, at the very least, a collection of rulers who wont end up fighting among themselves)....
Weavers Ideas Have Consequences speaks to the complexities that emanate from mans shortcomings about the world around him. The co...
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...
only in the perception of the one who desires it....
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...
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...
the society and, subsequently, from the self. Sartres concept of alienation was certainly different from Marxs. Of course, Mar...
according to The Columbia Encyclopedia is "imposition of penalty of death by the state" (Capital Punishment, 1993). Altho...
trial for treason and his thoughts prior to his execution. These are the Apology, the Crito and the Phaedo, which is an account of...
even know that IV drug use is. Should such persons be subject to taking unnecessary tests, or rather, should the government trust ...
told us we had to leave, or go to jail. My mother came out of the house crying, we children knew there was trouble, but we were c...
it is (L) that connects human behavior with the environment via "desires and beliefs" that the environment fosters in us (Rosenbe...
of achieving either on his own, with the aid of a teacher, or with the help of another more accomplished peer.(Zone, 2002). The st...
to properly identify herself surely saved lives. In the hypothetical situation at hand, there is no heroism, so it would be diffic...