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Wisdom, and the Word of God. Therefore, intellectual knowledge is not the result of the gathering of data by the intellect, but a ...

attempt to free themselves. What he has realized is that what they had seen all along on the wall of the cave were mere representa...

their own minds, try to "find" a motivation for Mersaults actions. Mersault is eventually convicted and sentenced with a motive th...

Socrates ideas. He states that he will be Euthyphros student in these matters. Of course, it would seem that Socrates is being a b...

of achieving either on his own, with the aid of a teacher, or with the help of another more accomplished peer.(Zone, 2002). The st...

usually associated with the Roman Catholic Pope, his presence does not seem to effect the laws of the government as women in Ital...

strive for bigger and better opportunities, to reach beyond what has become comfortable and consistent in order to attain that whi...

philosophy" was intent on raising philosophical debate above the aesthetic and theological interests which had held it captive for...

He sought not to try to make people feel any better about themselves or the world in which they lived aside from empowering them t...

on actions, then the argument would end there. Utilitarianism, therefore, is their effect on society and the world at large. Actio...

If we accept the premise, therefore, that science is capable of defining physiological death then we must ask ourselves how do we ...

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 ...