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Twenty First Century Transcendentalism

to be called "transcendentalism" (5). The individuals who wrote about this faculty referred to it by different names -- e.g., "sp...

Critiquing Postmodernism

started to fall out of favour, and the fall of this from popualrity is claimed by Charles Jenks to have marked the end of the mode...

A Sinbad's Guide to Life Review

turned off or the car repossessed, they might feel at least they are better off than this semi-famous actor/comedian. Sinbad is ...

Knowledge and Philosophy

This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...

Causation and David Hume

More specifically, Hume argued that cause is the idea that one event makes another event inevitable and/or necessary (The Philosop...

Man Against Nature in Lee Tamahori's 1997 Film The Edge

new person. This has been tradition since Gilgamesh. The hero emerges from the wilderness to contribute to society and carry out...

David McCullough's John Adams

but rather simple happiness. But, he was a man of vision and determination as well. He was an excellent lawyer and began to make a...

Chapter 7, 'The Bean Field,' in Walden by Henry David Thoreau

446). Since it has only been around fifteen years since the land was cleared, Thoreau judges that the soil should still be rich, s...

Different 'David' Sculptures

that of David. This was his first real sculpture and perhaps, like David, he was taking on a powerful challenge that would determi...

Cinema and Time's Role

human being he is. This comes as a shock to Oliverio who is as bad as the rest in assuming that prostitutes have no brains. Actu...

Progress and Technology

would soon desire to take the car everywhere instead of walking, maintaining his own bodys requirements. Mans pursuit of the dolla...

Born Unwanted Examined Critically

boys would prove to have greater difficulties than the girls in the study. Another hypothesis was that "the effect of unwan...

God's Existence and the Teleological Method of David Hume

supporters of the argument from design see a babys perfect little fingers with unique fingerprints and the fact that the honey bee...

Cosmological Argument of David Hume

with a wholly different sort of argument. He states that if the universe has an intelligent designer (i.e., the cosmological argum...

Jesus vs. Thoreau, a Comparison

public inconveniencey, it is the will of God... that the established government be obeyed--and no longer" (1755). Christ was also...

Skepticism and Descartes' Cogito

questions that are not answered by the phrase "I think. Therefore I am." What if one does not think? Does that prove that he or sh...

Testimonial Knowledge and Robert Audi

some strategy that starts from other beliefs that we have. Inference, for example, is such a strategy. One might infer that it is ...

Subjectivist vs. Rationalist Philosophical Theories

here on Earth. This of course, did not go over well with the Church who was used to organizing everyones life on Earth. Reason, th...

Knowing Truth That Has Not Been Proven

However, we can also argue that the proof f this truth made no difference to whether the belief was true, being true even before i...

Thematic Analysis of Walden by Henry David Thoreau

silence and contemplation and it was just this sort of thing that Thoreau was seeking and thus details are an intricate part of hi...

David Lynch and Postmodern Theory

In Part I of David Harveys The Condition of Postmodernity - "The Passage From Modernity To Postmodernity In Contemporary Culture" ...

St. Anselm's Ontological Argument from Philosophical Perspectives

points which are "1) God is defined as the being in which none greater is possible; 2) It is true that the notion of God exists i...

Anne Boleyn and Catherine of Aragon

to Spain, stayed on in England in the vain hope of recovering her dowry from the skinflint Henry VII. She eventually married Arthu...

Detailed Analysis of Plato's Cave Allegory

(Washington State University, 2004). Plato asserts that our perceptions are essentially "shadows" of real objects. In ot...

Skeptical Human Understanding of David Hume

that the object of thought is capable of being. Hume understands that, quite simplistically, the soul is simply . . . the soul. ...

Racism According to Joyce Appleby and David Roediger

that their numbers (like those of "our own natives") are dwindling. As this suggests, Ball is not unsympathetic toward the natives...

Introduction to Major Philosophers and Their Philosophies

see the usefulness of your food donation, insofar as eating food will improve his health." And there is still yet another agreeabl...

William Makepeace Thackeray and Charles Dickens

a very good life with his mother but then his mother marries and he is sent away to a place called Salem House. It is London board...

David Magarey Earl's Emperor and Nation in Japan

powerful. He presents this attempt through offering many different examinations, talking about the shogun political structure, an...

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...