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Worldly Circumstance and Moral Worth

wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves social needs. A number of philosophers have contributed to the debate which...

Government's Only Legitimate Form, Human Nature, and Second Treatise on Government by John Locke

of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit, within the bounds of th...

Locke and Rousseau and the Impossibility of Teaching Intelligence

basis of this essay (1995). He maintains the blank state hypothesis, believing that people are born with minds akin to a blank, wh...

Aristotle and Plato on Knowledge

subject of forms. While Plato held a dual realms theory, Aristotle saw form and matter as existing in the same realm. In discussi...

Public Administration Evolution

be studied scientifically in order to derive the most rational, economic and efficient means of administering policy. The form is...

Looking at Empiricism and Rationalism

also believed in one realm. Spinoza writes: "By God, I mean a Being absolutely infinite -- that is, a substance consisting in inf...

Philosophy and Metaphysics

human nature is bound by the weakness of mans character? In short, Platos (1979) freed prisoner is himself, the cave reflects the...

Nursing and Knowledge

led to alter his position. The old philosophers gave much attention to the issue of knowledge and epistemology. Aristotle ...

Life and Writings of Plato

his writings (Levinson x). Socrates would continue to dominate Platos personal and professional lives for years to come, and woul...

Knowledge, Sensation, Plato and Rene Descartes

also supported what was known as the Theory of Ideas, which mainly stated that archetypal ideas (which rest in the universal)(Plan...

Afghanistan National Development Strategy (ANDS)

Security; Governance Rule of Law & Human Rights; Infrastructure & Natural Resources; Education; Health; Agriculture & Rural Develo...

Locke and Hume on Knowledge

do believe that knowledge comes from testing, such as in science, and has little to do with experience. This is because experience...

Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Locke, and Their Personal Property Theories

In five pages this paper examines Rousseau's On the Origin of Inequality and Locke's Two Treatises of Government in a comparative ...

Content and Process Based Motivation Theories

relationship (Armstrong, 2009, p320). Process theories place an emphasis on the differences that are found in employees, and inste...

Nietzsche and Plato, Views on Socrates

This essay pertain to the way Plato and Nietzsche perceived the character and philosophy of Socrates. Seven pages in length, five ...

Humanity According to David Hume and John Locke

that one already has some sense of who they are. Therefore, using ones senses cannot be used to initially gain an idea of humanity...

Saint Augustine of Hippo and Plato's Influence

Wisdom, and the Word of God. Therefore, intellectual knowledge is not the result of the gathering of data by the intellect, but a ...

Socratic Philosophy and Plato

is good (Frost 84). For Socrates, "a life which is always inquiring and trying to discover what is good is the best kind of life, ...

Changing Times and Unchanging Philosophical Themes

youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...

Literature and Philosophical Themes

education is still substantially elevated in contemporary culture. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees virtue as choice and so mora...

Perspectives on the Soul, Socrates and Aristotle

for Plato and are directly related to that capacity of understanding. Physical things of the world must, of necessity, have bodily...

Individual's Personal Duty to Country

no matter how insignificant or trite they may seem. However, it would seem that he believed that there were at least two types of ...

Philosophy According to Rene Descartes and Plato

trial for treason and his thoughts prior to his execution. These are the Apology, the Crito and the Phaedo, which is an account of...

Soul, Piety, Virtue, and Socrates' Philosophy

In seven pages this paper discuses Socrates' philosophy in an overview that includes his soul concept, what constitutes 'true' kno...

Philosophers and Personal Responsibility

In five pages this paper examines the philosophies of Rene Descartes and Plato in a consideration of the mind and the soul, which ...

Morality and Man According to John Locke

In five pages Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding is referenced in a discussion of the philosopher's perspectives rega...

Book Two of Essay on Human Understanding by John Locke

On five pages this report considers Locke's subdivision of human ideas into relations, modes, and substances within the context of...

Social Contract Theory and John Locke

In five pages this paper examines the views of Jean Jacques Rousseau and Thomas Hobbes in a comparison of their social contract th...

Metaphysics As a Guide to Morals by Iris Murdoch

looked at in the context of history and of the study of philosophy. II. Metaphysics Metaphysics is an abstract part of philos...

Proving God's Existence with the Philosophies of Wittgenstein, Descartes, and Plato

argued that this is true, Plato, but let us bring forth two other philosophers to create a better atmosphere for this discourse. ...