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In five pages Aristotle's concept of happiness with an emphasis upon a life of contemplation is discussed. Five sources are cited...
childhood, during his early life, Socrates was a sculptor, following in the footsteps of his father, Sophroniscus (Wikpedia, 2003)...
did the so-called "technostructure" - the idea that technology can have an impact on the economy (Landry, 1998). Furthermo...
to immigration reform, attacking affirmative action programs, welfare reform and tort reform (1996). Joshua Murachik, quoting Eliz...
Hume presented his arguments in a pair of treatises that are still considered required reading for any student of Western philosop...
In order to explore his general theory, it pays to look at his Second Treatise of Civil Government. It is rather compelling and ...
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,...
It is further rather specific in that it notes particular parts of history which ultimately culminates in a state of communism (19...
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...
class conflict and the role of counter revolutionary forces. Georges Jacques Danton had great significance in the French Re...
the Buddhist worldview and the goal of detaching oneself from the material world and the body. "Thought is an attribute that rea...
acknowledging it as the source from which the mind receives sensory information. However, Kant argued that the mind cannot know 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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
(Nietzsche, 1974). It does seem to be true that when someone supports old institutions and mainstays they are applauded by the lar...
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...
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...
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...
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...