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the context of a modern society. Certainly, today Maimonides instruction to beat wives who neglect their wifely "duties" would not...

In fourteen pages the causality of people's actions and whether or not they are rooted in reasons are examined through social scie...

In five pages two Indian Vedanta philosophical doctrines are examined in a comparative analysis. Six sources are cited in the bib...

one looks at a variety of lifetimes via reincarnation, its purpose explained by knowledge. In other words, people are born and liv...

In seven pages this paper examines this slogan in a consideration of its organizational as well as philosophical ramifications. F...

personal desire to do so, rather than depending upon automatic reaction or stimulation. "The skeptic, therefore, had better keep ...

Theravada Buddhism was the original form, which was based on lengthy meditation and required...

was changing in terms of philosophy. John Lockes The Second Treatise of Civil Government is rather compelling and in fact, free ch...

not merely things to be used to reach ones goal, but are sentient beings with worth beyond measure. The golden rule may be interp...

tendencies within society and the fact that people are far too concerned with their own well being to fend for those who cannot fe...

Many contend that while God is all good, man has free will and brings the suffering on himself. At the same time, animals cannot r...

Sisyphus himself perceives his condition....

what Descartes believed to be the existence of humanity and humanitys understanding of what knowledge truly is. In a comparison of...

Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...

himself, without mischief reaching at least to his near connexions, and often far beyond them"(Mills,9). John Stuart Mill seemed ...

He didnt believe that going to church necessarily related to a relationship with God. He felt that church almost got in the way o...

Brian Vickers portrays Plato as an intellectual Odysseus, stealthily stealing the rhetorical arsenal of the sophists and using it ...

is anguish all the time, but there is also a sense of joy at the realization that one is inextricably bound with another. This sen...

well-being but our physical well-being also. For instance, Terry (54) tells us that music has been widely recommended as a techni...

to attain a better existence for itself, it has inadvertently caused a domino effect when it comes to such personal pursuits. It ...

political ends, one should do so through peace and peaceful activism, and not through violence. There were many other philosophica...

Moltmann's ideas are used to incite discussion on time and space issues in this paper of fourteen pages with time defined and the ...

world, few governments would allow either situation to exist. Yet, it would be troubling for anyone to be completely dominated by ...

the fetus. Pro-choice individuals often argue that the fetus is nothing more than a part of the womans body, with no more signific...

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, ...

He and a group of utilitarians formed a small Utilitarian Society based on many of the writings of Bentham. His many works appeare...

highest truth and certainty I have learned either from the senses or through the senses" (Descartes 29). But he is quick to note ...

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...

trade. Barbaric pursuits held no interest, and the Chinese certainly knew their medicine and culture were vastly superior. ...