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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...

reasons, among them the reaction of fear and disbelief. John Stuart Mill addressed the fatalism of his age by theorizing the prin...

in many different ways, invading privacy and pushing their way into our lives. While many people accept it today, the pressures in...

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example, in his Art as Experience (1934) he explained that he understood art as the experience of focusing on the production of ob...

The needs of the society come before the needs of the individual, and Rand even suggests that this collective identity would suppo...

the natural world held many different dangers for communities or societies. With warfare men naturally went off to fight and women...

are not to be allowed any form of independence - they cannot even undertake religious fasts on their own initiative, but must join...

therefore, offers interpretation of them through various reflections, narratives, and discourses (John, 2003). The first sign is t...

Jesus was both human and Divine as is reflected in many parts of the New Testament. This paper discusses the account of the Last S...

This paper offers an extensive overview of scholarship that discusses the role of the Holy Spirit as it is described in the Gospel...

In five pages this paper examines Rousseau's On the Origin of Inequality and Locke's Two Treatises of Government in a comparative ...

a rewording of Lockes description of the state of nature: "We must consider what estate all men are naturally in, and that is, a s...

One will of course possess an impression from the sight, and supposes that there is a causal relationship between the flames and t...

in fact prompt motivation. Yet, while Lockes ideas seem pertinent in todays world where education seems to be nothing more than di...

Choosing life, protecting life and so forth is a part of the culture. There are end of life issues that beg for resolution but by ...

Human Understanding, by David Hume (2001), may be helpful. In his classic volume, Hume demonstrates that people know the causes...

to hold property" (Child, 1990, p. 578). For him, it was an inherent and instinctive part of human nature. In Chapter 5, "Of Pro...

what he actually did. At the same time, it is not as if this philosopher threw out the basic tenets of reasoning. He did find it n...

of society. However, Hobbes is also making the assumption that human beings will able to ascertain what is the correct way of doin...

In order to explore his general theory, it pays to look at his Second Treatise of Civil Government. It is rather compelling and ...

only from a scientific standpoint but from a philosophical and political standpoint as well. British philosopher John Lock...

increased productivity. American manufacturing capacity was increasing constantly, but wage increases did not reflect this: worker...

of God, nor can they deny the rights of individuals to their separate and distinct beliefs. Locke also argued that man sho...

say that while the theorists do each embrace the same explanation as to why political authority must exist, they do not agree on w...

in which truth is believed to derive chiefly from experience" (Nichols, 2003, p. 20). In order to explore his general theory, it p...

what Descartes believed to be the existence of humanity and humanitys understanding of what knowledge truly is. In a comparison of...

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

This is particularly true for Jefferson verses Madison and Hobbes verses Locke. Despite their differences in philosophies, ...

he means a state of equality, in which no one person possesses authority over another, and all people are free to live as they ple...