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theory of "seeing is believing" and that something must be touched in order to be a reality. According to Goellnitz, one s...

identifies Schopenhauers most distinctive contribution to philosophy as his "insistence that Will is more basic than thought to bo...

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...

no matter how insignificant or trite they may seem. However, it would seem that he believed that there were at least two types of ...

is on a morphine drip to which there is attached only one instruction: decrease the drip when respirations reach four per minute....

after his death would become the worlds largest retailer. In principle and on paper at least, Wal-Mart still operates on th...

power. For example, Machiavelli points out that the ruler becomes great in the eyes of the people by overcoming difficulties and o...

of that century, the French philosopher, Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) developed his metaphysical theories known as "occasionali...

that anyone of Jewish descent or faith were in terrible danger, yet they chose to stay, hoping that it would go away, or that God ...

chap6f.html). We note that with deontology, "If, in the nature of action, a contradiction is found, then that is the rational ...

Stuart Mill (1806-1873) Mill.htm). An advocate of this particular perspective, "Popper thought that both Mill and Comte were wrong...

been described as "hands across the color line" (Quarles 146), or a belie that, "In all things that are purely social we can be as...

This paper will also analyze whether Tacitus was correct in his belief that judiciary freedom was ruined in the presence of the em...

Camus relates the substance of the Greek myth and how Sisyphus was condemned to endlessly roll a rock up a hill in the underworld,...

upon life are not likely to be duplicated in the near future. Indeed, the praise for such progression during these two periods ca...

by Eastern religions. A "Master" discerns the attainment of religious enlightenment in his novices according to how a novice beh...

unusual for a theologian (St. Thomas Aquinas, 2002). Aquinas made many significant contributions to philosophy and specifically i...

true of actions as well as other events, not in order to argue that determinism is compatible with actions being freely performed ...

contributions to ethical and social theory" (Anonymous John Stuart Mill 1806-1873, 2002; MILL.HTM). In his work "Principles of ...

of the same) is "reason" rather than the self-conscious "I." One may then extend the concept from ethical ideas to morality, whic...

their Doubts, and to confirm them at last in a perfect Skepticism" (47). Locke...

lying promise is something that is said in order to achieve a favorable outcome. What if someone has a gun to the victims childs h...

when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." And, for 20th century Catholic theologian Josef Pieper (1904-97), Gods role in...

ability to allow us the opportunity to interpret the rational through the concrete forms presented in art. Hegel believed that ...

the solider represents the state and the people are merely innocent bystanders. At the same time, during a draft, one could also a...

the old mans money to the poor. While he fears being found out, when he is, the people not only forgive him, but elect him their n...

(2000) presents his argument, his thesis, in stating that "I want to raise and examine the possibility that, however much we came ...

Power is behind all that we perceive, then the Higher Power would be a deceitful one. Descartes arrives at this conclusion becaus...

of yourself and your natural abilities, or your position in society. You know nothing of your sex, race, nationality, or individua...

it was necessary to develop an account of human nature....