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being" (Burnham, 2001). In order for our universe to have taken on the form that it has, it has been necessary, according t...

does not love and who is better than twenty years older than her. Then, his son goes into the future son-in-laws bank and manages ...

(Amin, 1997; p. 8). In many ways we experience, and have experienced, growth of cultures through diversity, which provides us ...

simple to Descartes, so simple it needs no argument. He basically says that as long as one is thinking, one exists. To Descartes, ...

and the imagination. However, he states that gaining an idea of self from the presentation given by the senses initially cannot re...

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...

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

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 ...

are the natural order of things. Are there coincidences, or do no coincidences exist? Much again, has to do with how a person perc...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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, ...

authors life, itself. What has he or she experienced in his/her lifetime that has contributed to this unique perception and turn o...

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

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. ...

to living their lives at the mercy of their rulers. The vote for colonial democracy was a vote for the freedoms that are intrinsi...

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

speaker is Philo, a religious skeptic (Johnson 266). The discussion is chiefly between Philo and Cleanthes, with occasional remar...

keep it alive" (Christian Answers to Moral Problems, 2002). Furthermore, in their article entitled "Letting Handicapped ...

who consistently place the needs of others above their own. The individuals who do this seemingly so naturally often can be diffi...

with most of the guests as a large part of his life had been shaped by political factors. When he was...

action should be judged in terms of whether or not that act brings the "greatest good" to the "greatest number" (Frost, 1962, p. 9...