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Essays 301 - 330
individuality and happiness are intrinsically related, as the achievement of personal happiness is associated with obtaining the i...
Kamath (2007) goes through all the possible outcomes regarding this dilemma. He explains that if the operation goes forth, there a...
ethical theory that supports killing off twice as many people to save half as many because you like them better. That is unethica...
First, Socrates, who is obviously the focus of the painting, is sitting up, still teaching as shown by his raised left hand. Hes m...
ghost, a phantom-true, but no real breath of life" (23.122-23). This minimal survival apparently depends on the appropriate funera...
if they were not a part of society then it would be obvious that God did not exist. In relationship to what other philosophers fro...
millennia worth of philosophical comprehension of mans existence. For those who depend upon traditional practice to shepherd them...
why so many people had to suffer. No matter the cause, the gods were not looked on with the reverence they had once enjoyed, and t...
could be products of society, but never the causes, or it would alter the objectivity of sociology as a science (Hamilton, 1995). ...
and is not open to the charge of flattery" (Plato). While Socrates then discusses the love of youth, possibly referring to having ...
because it is supposed to produce truth in the end. The essence of this method is a process that usually begins with Socrates ask...
knew nothing and was far from wise, he sets upon a course of action to find someone wiser than himself to offer to the Oracle as r...
perception is that which we, as humans, have been trained to discern as a species, inasmuch as the certain quality of perception r...
interaction with the world, ourselves, and others. Our perceptual capacities are not fixed; they are not static or one-dimensiona...
the harp is broken the music stops; if the human dies, doesnt the soul also vanish? (Plato). It is to answer these concerns and ar...
distance. In some way one can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees ...
has many flaws. There is question as to whether or not the method really gets to the truth at all. In fact, one has to wonder whet...
pundits or the mainstream media happen to be handing out at the moment. This is a process that rekindles a "child-like--but by no ...
Aristotles concrete, scientific theories are more relevant than Platos deductive and abstract ideology. Aristotle believed...
very powerful and just individual, putting aside the fact she was a woman. While this speaks of men, and fighting for justice, one...
quickly taking over the world, leaving no room for anything else" (Williams, Dustin and McKenney, 2004). In his view, we were leav...
cast them as slaves of the elite. This action of stripping an individuals inherent rights as a human being can be nothing other t...
was that all humans are born with an inherent worth which he labeled human dignity (Mazur, 1993). He further felt that human dign...
beings. Euthyphro would of course agree with that sentiment and oppose Socrates on this matter. The gods of course are powerful. W...
virtue, i.e., justice, but it is also included under Aquinas discussion of love, specifically under love of ones neighbor, for Go...
David: So you can be popular? Allen: Yeah. David: Why do you want to be popular Allen? I know everyone wants to be popular in h...
as the Socratic dialogue that in many ways can be compared to todays constructivist approach to education in which he "drew forth ...
teaching, in which he pretended not to know the answers to questions, so that students would come to understanding on their own. ...
As in most of his essays, Freud (1952), in Civilization and its Discontents, wrestles with human nature and why there is such a ch...
wiser (21a). This news confused Socrates greatly as he realized that he was not particularly wise. He, therefore, set out to find ...