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Personal Morality and Life's Meaning

In nine pages this paper examines the role of personal morality in attaching meaning to life in a comparative analysis of Meno and...

Innate Knowledge and the Debate Between Nativism and Empiricism

In nine pages the debate between innate or native knowledge as espoused by Kant, Descartes, and Plato is compared with the empiric...

Knowledge and the Views of the Empiricists and the Rationalists

In eleven pages this paper defines rationalism and empiricism in a consideration of the philosophical views of Berkeley, Hume, Loc...

God, Knowledge, Wisdom, and Virtue According to Descartes and Aristotle

In nine pages specific questions are answered regarding Aristotle's position on happiness, virtue, knowledge, and wisdom, and then...

What Does Empiricism Teach About The Relationship Between Appearance And Reality?

awareness of the moment at hand and draws attention to the fleeting nature of existence that unifies all things. "The ideas of Se...

St. Thomas Aquinas On Autonomy And Freedom

and a posterior arguments here, there is a priori knowledge of Gods existence but that knowledge is beyond human understanding. In...

Works of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Saint Augustine, and Saint Paul

appetite for sex...amounts to being enslaved" and is essentially a sin (Armstrong, 1998). Armstrong (1998) indicates that there ...

The 'Just War' According to Thomas Aquinas

the problem-solving work "forward by rendering intelligible the problems various dimensions" (Miller, 2002, p. 173). The first se...

Faith and Reason in the Thinking of Thomas Aquinas and Dante Alighieri

be an object of science. To this question, Aquinas answers "no." First of all, following the medieval style of reasoning, he posit...

Thomas Aquinas and Bernard Lonergan on Individual Philosophy

In six pages this paper presents the arguments of Karl Rahner regarding philosophies on the individual according to Aquinas and Lo...

Virtue, Justice, and the Common Good According to St. Thomas Aquinas

In seven pages this paper discusses how this preeminent religious philosopher defined virtue, justice, and the common good. One s...

Politics, Morality, Law, and Saint Thomas Aquinas

In five pages this report considers how Aquinas differentiated between eternal law and natural law in a discussion that also inclu...

Comparison of St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine

In eight pages this research paper contrasts and compares these Christian theologians in terms of their similarities and differenc...

Comparative Analysis of the Philosophical Views of Thomas Aquinas and Augustine of Hippo

In ten pages this paper contrasts and compares each religious philosopher's arguments regarding man being separate from goodness a...

Ethics According to Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle

In five pages these philosophers' views on ethics are contrasted and compared as represented by Aristotle in Nicomachean Ethics an...

Justice Concept of Young Challenging the Views of David Hume, Thomas Aquinas, and Aristotle

men for the society in which they develop. Youngs concepts of justice and mans role in society appear to challenge those prese...

'On the Eternity of the World' by Thomas Aquinas

In a paper consisting of nine pages this work by Aquinas is evaluated in terms of its strengths and weaknesses of points. Five so...

Thomas Aquinas' Arguments and the Lack of Proof

In five pages this paper examines Aquinas' 5 arguments on God's existence and exposes the errors in his 2nd argument. Three sourc...

Thomas Aquinas and David Hume on Religious Morality

a "relentless critic of metaphysics and religion" (David Hume, 2002). Hume argued that "our purely philosophical conceptions of G...

The Influence of Thomas Aquinas and Augustine of Hippo

still prevalent in Christian theology, that the all of scripture if divinely inspired and therefore completely correct. On the o...

Justice and Law According to William Lloyd Garrison, Thomas Aquinas, and Oliver Wendell Holmes

actions would have been sanctioned by law forty years ago, the consensus of society at today is that this sort of discrimination i...

Aquinas by F.C. Copleston

education, Aquinas was exposed to the work of the ancient Greek philosophers. Throughout his writing , Aquinas worked out a relati...

Knowledge According to Socrates and Descartes

This research report looks at how knowledge is acquired according to these two theorists. A great deal of information is contained...

Welsh Poet Dylan Thomas

could find. He entered his teen years in a state of rebellion, and left school when he was sixteen years old. He found work as a...

Knowledge and the Importance of Knowing the Past

ranging from the advancement of technology, to wide-ranging theoretical, philosophical and cultural issues, the impressions and de...

An Analysis of The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas Friedman

New York Times foreign affairs columnist Thomas Friedman expertly illuminates his knowledge of globalization in the captivating bo...

Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas Hearings Analyzed

The case involving Clarence Thomas's alleged sexual harassment of Anita Hill in 1991 is the focus of this five page paper and incl...

Boghossian and Tyler Burge on Self Knowledg

In five pages this paper examines how self knowledge is represented in Content and Self Knowledge by Boghossian and Memory and Sel...

Medieval Perspectives on Religion by Keith Thomas and Eamon Duffy Compared

the other hand, is quite different. Duffy sees the magical element as part of an overall religious system that was flexible, vibra...

General Overview of Knowledge Management

modest maiden, and the enemy will open his doors; afterwards be as swift as a scurrying rabbit, and the enemy will be to late to r...