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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...
of veracity. This is because each segment of humanity is its own little universe and what is held to be truth in one section of th...
highest truth and certainty I have learned either from the senses or through the senses" (Descartes 29). But he is quick to note ...
In five pages Aristotle's concept of happiness with an emphasis upon a life of contemplation is discussed. Five sources are cited...
acknowledging it as the source from which the mind receives sensory information. However, Kant argued that the mind cannot know th...
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...
in earlier times it was regarded only as the poor relation of quantitative research that nearly always was less reliable and far l...
Crises arise that usher in change, systems achieve equilibrium for a time and then begin to change again, leading to another round...
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...
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...
contributions to ethical and social theory" (Anonymous John Stuart Mill 1806-1873, 2002; MILL.HTM). In his work "Principles of ...
of the same) is "reason" rather than the self-conscious "I." One may then extend the concept from ethical ideas to morality, whic...
Camus relates the substance of the Greek myth and how Sisyphus was condemned to endlessly roll a rock up a hill in the underworld,...
of that century, the French philosopher, Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) developed his metaphysical theories known as "occasionali...
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...
well-being but our physical well-being also. For instance, Terry (54) tells us that music has been widely recommended as a techni...
Power is behind all that we perceive, then the Higher Power would be a deceitful one. Descartes arrives at this conclusion becaus...
but in those areas where the student was lagging a remediation course was offered in-house for the student. This seems logical, si...
corporate, organized around a concept of ultimate reality" (9). The reality conjured by these beliefs, actions and experiences ca...
not merely things to be used to reach ones goal, but are sentient beings with worth beyond measure. The golden rule may be interp...
Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...
will a universal law" (Immanuel Kant). In ethics of choice, Kantian philosophy dictates that intention or consequences can ...
This, he asserted, was mans freedom of the will, in which people are able to determine their own choices, rather than be automatic...
In five pages this paper examines pessimism and whether or not optimism exists in this philosophical consideration of Voltaire, Sc...
what Descartes believed to be the existence of humanity and humanitys understanding of what knowledge truly is. In a comparison of...
In twenty pages this paper examines Great Britain's post compulsory education from political, cultural, and socioeconomic perspect...
texts The Republic and Crito, Plato learned his lessons well. In both works, Plato theorizes what justice is through deductive re...
and their duty, and allowing them to share the advantages of education and government with man," which Wollstonecraft indicates wi...
considered his philosophy to be heresy. Abbey (2004) notes that the work which gained Diderot the charge of disseminating pornogr...