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Is the West Responsible for the Radicalization of Islam

The contention has been presented again and again that Islam represents a multifaceted faith, not just the faith associated with t...

The Role of the Financial Accounting Standards Board

The way that these processes take place is overseen by the Financial Accounting Foundations Board of Trustees (FASB, 2010). The F...

The G-Spot, Real or Myth?

as to whether or not the G-spot actually exists from the time that Dr. Ernst Grafenberg first described it in 1950. At that time, ...

Three Dialogues of George Berkeley

that sensible things mean those items or realities that can be perceived by the senses of a human being. Philonous states the foll...

God's Existence Belief

at the bottom of the ladder, and humanity at the top, by virtue of the faculty of reason (Augustine of Hippo, 2001). After carefu...

Existence of God Proven by the Argument from Design

the absurdity of this answer. But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened to...

God's Existence and Logic

believed deeply in the value of ethics as it related to humans in the natural world. His concept of forming an adequate ethical c...

Voluntarism, 'I Think Therefore I am,' and the Meditations of Rene Descartes

thus in doubting, he is thinking, and it must be true that he exists" (Anonymous Topic 2 - "Cogito, ergo sum", 2002; cogito.html)....

How Rene Descartes Used Principles, Definitions, and Deductive Reasoning to Argue that God Exists

idea that nothing comes from nothing. Reality in itself must come from a cause that is at least equal if not more so than its effe...

God's Existence Arguments

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

Changing Times and Unchanging Philosophical Themes

youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...

Film The Matrix and the Philosophies of Rene Descartes and Jean Paul Sartre

the world, but only derive essence later. In other words, a human is nothing to start with, and the essence of the person comes fr...

A Discussion of Christian Elements in the Epic Poem Beowulf, and in the Character of Beowulf Himself

the first great epic poems of English history is thought to have been written around the time of the first half of the 8th century...

David Hume

controversial writings on religion and morality (Hume, 2002). In fact, he continued to turn out essays and critical writings on ev...

Hume and Descartes

human senses can be mislead. This is seen when there are individuals close and far away, with the difference in size seen by the e...

Analyzing Michigan's Kalamazoo Asylum for the Insane

were sometimes locked away in unsanitary conditions or exposed to even harsher treatment. This situation was not to improve subst...

The Existence Of God and Descartes' Argument

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

David Hume and Thomas Aquinas on God's Existence

that any passage outside our sensitive impressions was not possible and as such "there is no metaphysics: we know nothing of God, ...

Existence of God Arguments

the universe and the cells of life on the planet, it was assumed that this enormous and highly intricate mechanism had a designer ...

Philosophical Concepts

of the most important philosophers when talking about knowledge and where it comes from. His explanation suggests that there is a ...

Intellectual Life and Material Conditions According to Immanuel Kant and Karl Marx

they are wage laborers or business owners. To some extent, Marx has a point, but only to an extent. Kant has a different take on...

Ethics and Advertising

In a paper that contains eight pages the motive for the existence of advertising through profit and persuasion are examined within...

God's Existence and Knowledge

In four pages this paper discusses how God's existence is argued through epistemology with Thomas Aquinas' arguments providing evi...

God According to David Hume

He asserted that evidence that God exists in a singular or plural context because it has become universally accepted as truth (135...

Images, Ideas, and Belief According to Rene Descartes

his previous beliefs had rested, since he intends to analyse philosophically whether these beliefs are in fact valid, and if they ...

The Matrix Film and Philosophies

In five pages this paper discusses the philosophies of Locke and Berkeley featured in The Matrix film as they pertain to the mater...

How to Prove That Love Exists

In five pages this paper tries to prove love exists by using Thomas Aquinas' 5 proofs of God's existence. One source is cited in ...

South Africa, Brazil, the U.S., and Slavery

questions loom large. In the United States for examples, things have changed immensely since the days of slavery. At the same time...

Reality and Western Social Theory

In six pages this paper discusses how Western social theory can assist in the understanding of reality and existence. Ten sources...

Science and Religion Clash in the Paintings of Salvador Dali

In five pages this paper discusses how Dali struggled with his interests in science and spiritualism as reflected in his surrealis...