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Third Meditation of Rene Descartes

cause of the effect must possess as much reality as the effect. Furthermore, Descartes asserts that any cause must have as much p...

Ethical Issues/Living Wills

precisely the same as for other patients. Legal responsibility for care decisions in cases where there is a living will: does the...

Slavery was a Bad Institution Practiced in the Civilized World

of one of the most powerful nations in the world. It was only through slavery that the United States was able to grow huge crops i...

Philosophical Proofs for the Existence of God

cosmological argument. As mentioned above, an ontological approach uses a deductive argument which "claims that its premises can b...

Those Winter Sundays

and lonely offices?" (Hayden 13-14). All of this speaks of a childs ignorance and how children are simply children, ignora...

What is a Religious Experience?

to God or to some type of "Ultimate Reality" (16). Such an experience differs from religious insight in that a religious insight ...

Stem Cell Controversy: Chapter Analysis

the greater good of humanity. Peters (2002) effectively illustrates how the extent to which stem cell research has ignited a veri...

Existence According to George Berkeley

in front of me and a keyboard at my fingers. Is the movement of my fingers real as I type these words? The possibility that perh...

The Protection of Human Rights in the UK

when an examination is undertaken of the way in which human rights are protected, the value of independent organisations such as A...

A Dialogue on Believing in God's Existence

argue Gods existence within its own definition. Without any sort of relationship with other concrete statements, the entire argume...

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....

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...

God's Existence and the Teleological Method of David Hume

supporters of the argument from design see a babys perfect little fingers with unique fingerprints and the fact that the honey bee...

Cosmological Argument of David Hume

with a wholly different sort of argument. He states that if the universe has an intelligent designer (i.e., the cosmological argum...

Karl Marx and Economic Determinism

angle. The nature of man is generally self-serving. However, economics is not the end all and be all of social life as it was for ...

Does Meditations Represent a Contradictory Rene Descartes?

that can render a thought or a concept wrong. One can do a study one day to prove that cholesterol is bad, and then another day, a...

Discussion of Extra Solar Planets

(Wilford, 1996). According to British astronomer Dr Alan Penny, this discovery is much more significant than many people realize:...

Ontological Argument on God's Existence by Rene Descartes

is a rather immense task that philosophers have been dealing with for quite some time. The fact that no one can know the answer f...

Overview of Synthetic A Priori Philosophical Judgments

of knowledge through experience, and so is the basis for synthetic statements that are linked to a postiori knowledge. Kant used ...

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...

Psychological Discipline: Gestalt

In order to achieve this objective and truly be able to eradicate the core reasons, counseling must apply several six specific pri...

Ethics In Nonprofit Organizations

there is no singular set of ethical disciplines that are adhered to by all sectors. Distinguishing these moral and ethical action...

Various Psychology Assignments

several European universities have parapsychology departments that investigate ESP, 96 percent of the scientists of the US Nationa...

Understanding Terrorism Based Upon The Terrorist Act of 9/11

Security Research, no date), a point duly clarified by International Terrorism and Security Research: "The strategy of ter...

Iran Hostage Crisis: The Result Of Human Progress and Abandoned Morals

drive toward free speech and political freedom" (Rath, 1994, p. 530). The unrest became increasingly obvious with no chance to "q...

Federal And Connecticut Resident Rights: Nursing Homes And Assisted Living Facilities

?19a-490, Connecticut Department of Public Health Code ?19-13-D105 and Residential care homes ?19-13-D-6 (National Academy for Sta...

Unequal Pay For Women In America: Income Disparity

social aspect and to help with the economics in forwarding their belief in their cause. The effectiveness of these groups are dep...

Place Of Religious Experience In Lawrence Kohlberg's Ideas Of Human Development

social order that refuses to acknowledge the elements of good and bad. Correspondingly, Fontana (2003) points out how the good "a...

The Disturbing Worldview of Alfred Hitchcock

the side of the road in the midst of miles of cornfields. It is a bright, sunny afternoon and the prairie seems benign after the c...

Is There A Moral Or Economic Case For The Existence Of Fair Trade Organizations?

There are a number of charities that work towards fair trade as a part of a larger remit to help those in needs such as those in d...