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Inductive and Metaphysical Skepticism and Meeting Their Challenges

and balances helps to equalize what man truly knows and that which he thinks he knows - the very foundation for identifying weakne...

Seneca's On Noise and Plutarch's A Consolation to His Wife

that as long as the noise is a sort of general background roar, he can ignore it, but when he can make out individual voices, it b...

A Review of The Thief Lord

He steals so that he can make sure the boys get enough to eat and get clothes. At one point in the story there is a pawn shop o...

Chinese Literary Works

the mountain (Fox Volant of the Snowy Mountain). As the characters wait for Fox Volant, they start to recall incidents from the p...

Annotated Bibliography on the Harlem Renaissance

anger that lead to one of the most fertile periods in American history. I have chosen to approach the Harlem Renaissance through ...

A Review of Commodifying Bodies - Man, Machines And Body Parts

components invented in the 1940s that ultimately paved the way for computer technology - the only people who were capable of opera...

The Historical Significance of Black Boy by Richard Wright

they know that to rebel would be disastrous. Then, just a short while later he begins to notice, for the very first time in his...

Hume, Kant, and Descartes' Teleological, Ontological, and Cosmological Arguments and God's Existence Criticisms

Arguments for the Existence of God Rene Descartes (1596-1650) is known as one of the most influential Western philosophers today....

Marie Carbo's Work

ASCDs Improving Student Achievement Advisory Board and ASCDs Urban Education Advisory Board" (National Reading Styles Institute, 2...

Objective and Formal Reality According To Descartes

capable of undergoing so many changes with regard to appearance, temperature, solidity and so on as to be rendered completely diff...

Attitudes and Group Work

behavior may not be specific to that individual; that others may participate in the same behavior or response under the same stimu...

People Selection and Group Work

with direction is often beneficial to the work team performance. Situational leadership can occur in the midst of the un...

Philosophical Concept Known as 'the Great Chain of Being'

of the world (1993). Yet, one can see this in action in smaller ways. Another way to look at the world is through the model called...

Imagined Debate Between Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Locke, and Niccolo Machiavelli

In five pages this paper imagines a debate among this quartet of political theorists are reflected in their literary works....

'Moses and Monotheism' by Sigmund Freud

In five pages social amnesia is examined in terms of the evidence offered by Sigmund Freud in his work....

'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night' by Dylan Thomas

derives from the fact that it seems as if it had a familiar or conventional meaning. One might be tempted to try a nonliteral int...

Past Preconceptions Rejected by the Scientific Revolution

In five pages this essay argues that ancient principles were rejected by seventeenth and eighteenth century scientific breakthroug...

Philosophers on God's Existence

experiences were possible (Gogan, 2006). This author indicates this in the following: "Kant gets rid of the usual foundation for r...

Excerpt from The Silent Partners by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

for diseases. The workers are constantly fatigued from the long hours, some rooms are too hot, others too cold, some dripping with...

How Benjamin Argued Against Descartes

and truth, Benjamin (2002) surmises how those who have invested both time and pains in its postulations should partake of a greate...

Designer Analysis: James Victore

artist. An artist needs to step outside the boundaries, and follow their own vision if they are to truly be an artist. Otherwise...

Anselm, Aquinas, Descartes/Existence of God

conclusion that "a being than which none greater can be conceived can be conceived to be greater than it is," which is "absurd" (A...

The Politics and Metaphysics of Thomas Hobbes

same time that other men pursue the same desires (Hobbes 185). The development of enemies comes from this course of natural compe...

The Cartesian Circle

This research report looks at one of Descartes' most well known theories. The basis of the Cartesian Circle is duly noted. The ide...

Intellect and Knowledge and Descartes

This research report examines the theories of Descartes and how knowledge and the intellect relate to experiential knowledge. The ...

Doubt and Descartes

This research report looks at this ultimate skeptic and explores doubt and truth in terms of all intellectual propositions. Is Des...

Of Sound Mind and Body and Descartes

This research report examines rationalizations used by Descartes and his own belief system. Various issues are explored and scient...

'Dream Demon' of Descartes, and Russell's Reaction

In four pages this paper discusses how Russell reacted to the 'dream demon' notion of Descartes, contrasting his perspective that ...

God and Nature According to Baruch Spinoza

In seven pages this paper examines the perspectives of this seventeenth century philosopher in terms of man's natural existence an...

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. ...