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God's Existence and Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes

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

Political Ideologies of East and West Compared

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

Natural Law and Jeremy Bentham

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

The Abstract Wild by Jack Turner and Philosophy

being destroyed, ironically enough, by the very systems designed to preserve them. In his book, he manages to leave no one in th...

Spatiality and Immanuel Kant

understanding. For example, Kants The Critique of Pure Reason (1781) begins with the words: "There can be no doubt that all our kn...

Wartime and Ethical Considerations

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

Anne Frank and Her Diary

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 ...

Egoism and Deontology

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

Social Philosophy, Distribution, and Production According to John Stuart Mill

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

Happiness and Wisdom in Philosophy

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

Skepticism and Knowledge According to John Locke

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

'Lying Promise' and Philosophy

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...

Thoreau, Pieper, and Plato on What Philosophy Is

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

Romantic Period Artistic Beauty

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

Lewis Mumford, A Life by Donald Miller

gave the commencement speech at his daughters graduation from Radcliffe, he concisely summed up the essence of what he found to be...

Moral Philosophy and Evolutionary Theory

for existence in which the fittest members of a varying population survive, reproduce, and pass on their traits to the next genera...

Art According to Plato and Aristotle

However, Allen also makes the point that Platos attitude was at least partially due to his respect and fear of the powers of art o...

Man's Greatest Good and Values

philosophical thought begs to differ. In the pre-Plato period, for example, the prevailing belief was that pleasure was immediate ...

Happiness as Viewed by the Philosophy of Aristotle

In five pages Aristotle's concept of happiness with an emphasis upon a life of contemplation is discussed. Five sources are cited...

Effecting Societal ChangeTwo Approaches to Societal Change: Elshtain's “Democracy on Trial” and West's “Race Matters”

address the problems of individualism in our contemporary society. While Wests "Race Matters" makes a frontal attack on these pro...

Position Paper on Drugs Legalization

arguments these days is that one would not want a physician operating on one when the physician is using marijuana on his off hour...

Social Contributions of Immanuel Kant

the work goes on to Part II and is headed Metaphysical first principles of the doctrine of virtue. This is also further subdivided...

John Locke and Liberalism

Within a short time however, Locke was relieved of his public duties, and left England due to the ill effects of the climate on hi...

Analyzing Domestic and International Terrorism from a U.S. Perspective

perfected the art of terrorism. The Arab/Israeli conflict, gives a great example of this. Both groups of people are bound to disli...

Questions on the Philosophies of Hume, Kant, and Sartre Answered

acknowledging it as the source from which the mind receives sensory information. However, Kant argued that the mind cannot know th...

Free Market, Private Property, and Freedom of the Press

paper is to explore that complex relationship as it falls under the liberal philosophy, that great tradition epitomized by such ph...

Ethics and Socrates' Philosophy

some sort of graft then the government will also. Socrates, if one reads any of Platos works, seems to be a...

An Ethical Exploration

come forth (Honderich, 1995). The Epicureans and Stoics had played an important role in the philosophical tradition (1995). Epicur...

Case Study Analysis and the Philosophies of John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant

In five pages a case study involving whether or not to have a baby or have an abortion is examined in an application of the theori...

Culture and Philosophy

their anxiety in significantly negative ways. Diversity in the type of sport is yet another critical consideration when it comes ...