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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...
agree with Aristotles ideas, and see morality as a living concept, and something that should not be tampered with. What might Aris...
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...
for example, would exist even if there were no human beings there to see it, but not that colour was an independent spiritual form...
constructed and the meaning made perfectly clear so that all understand what types of behavior will be tolerated and which will no...
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...
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...
highest truth and certainty I have learned either from the senses or through the senses" (Descartes 29). But he is quick to note ...
in his own personal progress at the cost of everything else. He was wholly supportive of the scientific community during the Enli...
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...
Crises arise that usher in change, systems achieve equilibrium for a time and then begin to change again, leading to another round...
acknowledging it as the source from which the mind receives sensory information. However, Kant argued that the mind cannot know th...
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...
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...
of that century, the French philosopher, Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) developed his metaphysical theories known as "occasionali...
Camus relates the substance of the Greek myth and how Sisyphus was condemned to endlessly roll a rock up a hill in the underworld,...
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...
well-being but our physical well-being also. For instance, Terry (54) tells us that music has been widely recommended as a techni...
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...
Power is behind all that we perceive, then the Higher Power would be a deceitful one. Descartes arrives at this conclusion becaus...
In five pages this paper examines pessimism and whether or not optimism exists in this philosophical consideration of Voltaire, Sc...
reason (Anonymous, 2001, April 16). Utilitarianism Utilitarianism, on the other hand, is an approach to morality that was devel...
have groomed themselves for heaven. They have made sure to live clean lives so their souls will be saved. Agnostics and atheists e...
In five pages business ethics are examined through applications of theories by philosophers David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and John St...
In five pages Descartes' Second Meditation is explored in terms of his analysis of what the perception of melting beeswax would be...
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...