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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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

the time, today people are faced with decisions and can decide to be honest or face dire consequences. Journalists today sometimes...

also be allowed to have their own private property. In Aristotles belief, man is inherently born sinful. Because of this ...

for social control and the exercise of power, on the other. All government, indeed, all institutions of society, exist along this ...

conditions and development; contrarily, humanity may also perceive the world as a more direct understanding based upon their spiri...

it, these are all abstractions on the concept of the apple in the first place. These notions could not be made without the immedi...

life fulfillment and that a disabled individual should be allowed to die because their quality of life will not allow them to find...

Hume presented his arguments in a pair of treatises that are still considered required reading for any student of Western philosop...

childhood, during his early life, Socrates was a sculptor, following in the footsteps of his father, Sophroniscus (Wikpedia, 2003)...

morning and be blown up on a bus or go to a discotheque and be killed in an explosion. These are not unusual scenarios there. For ...

Introduction The issues surrounding abortion are complex to say the least. People are polarized on the issue...

certainty. I might as well take a shower. I hurried, in an effort to at least reduce the amount of time I would walk into the door...

is real? Again, the Cartesian Cogito is something that resolves the problem for some. Still, this is a problem that many philosoph...

ideas. As we shall soon see, through these speeches Plato seems to have reasoned out how it is that mankind make their way from th...

humans should be moral we often think of the works of those major philosophers who adamantly supported morality. We look to great...

interprets the ideal of freedom and to what extent they live in their own psychological prisons. Social freedom means that one wil...

first of all, wherever friendship or community flourishes, justice doesnt - and when this fades, justice becomes more important. S...

the universe, in which human beings are pictured a being at the top of the pyramid to one that sees life as an expanding circle th...

writer/tutor reviews Staels text in chronological order, the student researching this topic may wish to contrast and compare the ...

However, we can also argue that the proof f this truth made no difference to whether the belief was true, being true even before i...

2002) . Rene Descartes on the other hand delved into the idea of immediate conscious thinking (2002). Locke viewed identity as be...

What comes out of a courtroom is not necessarily truth, but which side argues best. The Sophists prided themselves on the use of p...