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Biology from Philosophical Perspectives

In contrast to the views of genic selectionists, then, developmental systems theory has been proposed as a way of incororating and...

Philosophical Theory, Causality, and Substance

said that one can easily recognize in an educated mind the ability to entertain a thought without accepting it; Aristotle taught t...

The Good Society by Robert Bellah, et al

negative" (p. 10). They explain that an "institution" can be as simple as the social custom of shaking hands as a...

Doubt Philosophy of Rene Descartes

do not assert any observation sentences (Yancy, 1995). And in fact, science and philosophy truly have a lot in common. Both scient...

Workplace Equity

workplace issues and discrimination are at the forefront. There are of course laws that protect against discrimination in terms of...

Communications and a Good Speech Presentation

This was quite distracting and immediately made one wonder if he were as sloppy running his programs as he was in paying attention...

Skepticism Philosophy

(2000) presents his argument, his thesis, in stating that "I want to raise and examine the possibility that, however much we came ...

Comparative Analysis of the Disciplines of Philosophy, Literature, Religion, and Science

most general - or universal - aspect of things" (Definition of Philosophy). These studies, the definition continues, are not carri...

The Abstract Wild by Jack Turner and Philosophy

being destroyed, ironically enough, by the very systems designed to preserve them. In his book, he manages to leave no one in th...

Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche and Symposium by Plato

something in Platos morality which does not really belong to Plato but is only to be met with in his philosophy, one might say in ...

Political Ideologies of East and West Compared

of yourself and your natural abilities, or your position in society. You know nothing of your sex, race, nationality, or individua...

Natural Law and Jeremy Bentham

it was necessary to develop an account of human nature....

Ralph Ellison's Philosophy in The Invisible Man

standing and he is awarded a full scholarship to a prestigious black college. This of course doesnt last long, as through a serie...

Jacques Louis David's Painting, Jean Jacques Rousseau's Philosophy and Duty to the State

from a state of freedom to a willingness to submit to the states authority? This is the underlying question in the majority of hi...

Socrates' Life and Relevance

things in the sky and below the earth, who makes the worse argument the stronger " (cited in Ross, 2000, p. PG). This is a formula...

God's Existence and Rene Descartes' Meditation III

conception of what is perceived. Some ideas appear to be innate, while others appear to originate elsewhere and come to the mind i...

United States and Ethnic Conflict

the capitalist system which emphasizes individuality over community and competition over cooperation. Areas that were once ...

A Report on Anheuser-Busch

well for nearly a century. There appears to be no need for the company to change many of its organizational structures now that it...

Spatiality and Immanuel Kant

understanding. For example, Kants The Critique of Pure Reason (1781) begins with the words: "There can be no doubt that all our kn...

Yogesh Chadha Gandhi A Life

and rely on previous works and historical documents to formulate a guideline. Since the publication of the entire 90 volumes of wo...

Anne Frank and Her Diary

that anyone of Jewish descent or faith were in terrible danger, yet they chose to stay, hoping that it would go away, or that God ...

Sixteenth Through Seventeenth Centuries' Scientific Concepts

upon life are not likely to be duplicated in the near future. Indeed, the praise for such progression during these two periods ca...

Subjective Truth and Soren Kierkegaard's Philosophy

by Eastern religions. A "Master" discerns the attainment of religious enlightenment in his novices according to how a novice beh...

Natural Law and Saint Thomas Aquinas

unusual for a theologian (St. Thomas Aquinas, 2002). Aquinas made many significant contributions to philosophy and specifically i...

Nature of Causation According to David Hume

true of actions as well as other events, not in order to argue that determinism is compatible with actions being freely performed ...

Flawed Political Arguments in The Prince

power. For example, Machiavelli points out that the ruler becomes great in the eyes of the people by overcoming difficulties and o...

Egoism and Deontology

chap6f.html). We note that with deontology, "If, in the nature of action, a contradiction is found, then that is the rational ...

Comparative Analysis of the Philosophies of John Rawls and John Stuart Mill

Stuart Mill (1806-1873) Mill.htm). An advocate of this particular perspective, "Popper thought that both Mill and Comte were wrong...

William Monroe Trotter, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Booker T. Washington on Race

been described as "hands across the color line" (Quarles 146), or a belie that, "In all things that are purely social we can be as...

Thoreau, Pieper, and Plato on What Philosophy Is

when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." And, for 20th century Catholic theologian Josef Pieper (1904-97), Gods role in...