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Essays 511 - 540
Without the pressures of the capitalist system, Marx was of the opinion that work could make a valuable contribution to the labour...
the post-Civil War period, which was one of unprecedented patronage for the arts from government and private sources, produced wor...
North and the more rural, ante-bellum Old South. Most historians agree that, in addition to the concept of slavery, vast d...
Power is behind all that we perceive, then the Higher Power would be a deceitful one. Descartes arrives at this conclusion becaus...
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...
(2000) presents his argument, his thesis, in stating that "I want to raise and examine the possibility that, however much we came ...
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...
the solider represents the state and the people are merely innocent bystanders. At the same time, during a draft, one could also a...
being destroyed, ironically enough, by the very systems designed to preserve them. In his book, he manages to leave no one in th...
understanding. For example, Kants The Critique of Pure Reason (1781) begins with the words: "There can be no doubt that all our kn...
Camus relates the substance of the Greek myth and how Sisyphus was condemned to endlessly roll a rock up a hill in the underworld,...
upon life are not likely to be duplicated in the near future. Indeed, the praise for such progression during these two periods ca...
by Eastern religions. A "Master" discerns the attainment of religious enlightenment in his novices according to how a novice beh...
unusual for a theologian (St. Thomas Aquinas, 2002). Aquinas made many significant contributions to philosophy and specifically i...
true of actions as well as other events, not in order to argue that determinism is compatible with actions being freely performed ...
their Doubts, and to confirm them at last in a perfect Skepticism" (47). Locke...
lying promise is something that is said in order to achieve a favorable outcome. What if someone has a gun to the victims childs h...
when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." And, for 20th century Catholic theologian Josef Pieper (1904-97), Gods role in...
ability to allow us the opportunity to interpret the rational through the concrete forms presented in art. Hegel believed that ...
strive for bigger and better opportunities, to reach beyond what has become comfortable and consistent in order to attain that whi...
identifies Schopenhauers most distinctive contribution to philosophy as his "insistence that Will is more basic than thought to bo...
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...
told us we had to leave, or go to jail. My mother came out of the house crying, we children knew there was trouble, but we were c...
philosophy" was intent on raising philosophical debate above the aesthetic and theological interests which had held it captive for...
on actions, then the argument would end there. Utilitarianism, therefore, is their effect on society and the world at large. Actio...
If we accept the premise, therefore, that science is capable of defining physiological death then we must ask ourselves how do we ...
of that century, the French philosopher, Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) developed his metaphysical theories known as "occasionali...
no matter how insignificant or trite they may seem. However, it would seem that he believed that there were at least two types of ...
is on a morphine drip to which there is attached only one instruction: decrease the drip when respirations reach four per minute....