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The Ideas of John Locke

chapter Locke focuses on property, but the entire Treatise is not exactly like that. The Treatise on the other hand, suggests that...

Global Branding And Global Brands

a few years ago. Consumers are not as willing to accept a brand if the company itself does not have a clean record. Creating a gl...

Barrington Moore & Immanuel Wallerstein: Main Ideas

immediacy of dissolution the agrarian component experienced as soon as industrialization took its firm hold upon a global society ...

An Analysis of Max Weber's Ideas about Capitalism

day is over--often at 4:30--they go home and dread the next day. It is a rut. Compare that to the hard working, up and coming exec...

Silko/Setting in Ceremony

the doctors that he felt like "white smoke" and that he had "no consciousness" (Silko 14). With this allusion, Tayo tried to conve...

Hardin's Theory of the Commons and the Failure of the Kyoto Accords

and no one can use it. Hardin goes beyond this simple example to consider other serious problems in light of this theory; he incl...

The Idea of Free Will in Mann's Mario and the Magician

Essentially, Mario kills the magician just like Lee Harvey Oswald killed JFK. Most explicators of this story tend to see the theme...

The Life and Ideas of Economist Adam Smith

reflected that the fruits of capitalism were well worth the journey. Interestingly, there would be a significant ideological confl...

Place Of Religious Experience In Lawrence Kohlberg's Ideas Of Human Development

social order that refuses to acknowledge the elements of good and bad. Correspondingly, Fontana (2003) points out how the good "a...

'Good Life' According to Socrates

interaction with the world, ourselves, and others. Our perceptual capacities are not fixed; they are not static or one-dimensiona...

Eroding Shoreline Mitigation

and development often clashes with the progress of natural systems. In the end, the ocean will not be changed, it will choose the...

Aristotle and the Idea of the "Good Life"

it mean for a person to be functioning well-or in this case, to be functioning to his highest capability? Its more than acquiring...

Difficulties in Constructing Robust Legislation to Impose Enforceable Health and Safety Duties on Directors of UK Companies

a particular person responsible especially when the company also has a legal identity and can be seen as a defendant. However, alt...

Diotima's Ideas on the Fairness of Love

she proved to me as I proved to him that, by my own showing, Love was neither fair nor good. " Here, the idea that love is powerfu...

The Idea of the U.S. Constitution

(States of human nature). Now lets look at the Constitution. The Preamble sets out the purpose of the document clearly: We the p...

Ethical Filtering

to fulfill this duty, "healthcare CFOs must be uncompromising in their adherence to the highest ethical standards" (Stango, 2006)....

Trade and Exchange as Stimulus for Change in England

we can argue there were some major influences and drives that shaped the industrial revolution and the development of the cotton g...

A Card Game and Dinner Party with Guests Locke, Sartre, Nietzsche, Descartes, Maimonides, and Averroes

with most of the guests as a large part of his life had been shaped by political factors. When he was...

Substance Dualism: Descartes, Spinoza and Berkeley

and escalate directly to the top to absolute knowledge. Step one in his groundbreaking compilation of scientifically conscious th...

Descartes vs. Russon

Descartes, of course, is remembered as the "father of modern philosophy". A rationalist, Descartes was particularly concerned wit...

Descartes' Second Meditation

what state they are in. Here, Descartes distinguishes the mind from the soul. He writes: "It further occurred to me that I was nou...

Proust and Descartes Regarding Identity

This research report looks at the ideas of these two philosophers through written works. Other works are explored such as those by...

How Culture and History Influenced the Philosophical Perspectives of William James and Rene Descartes

In two pages this paper examines how the philosophies of these two theorists were influenced by history and their respective cultu...

Rene Descartes, Aristotle, and Plato on Reality and the Soul

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares how this trio of philosophers perceived the soul and reality in a consideration of...

Discussing the First Meditation of Descartes

Meditation, the three skeptical arguments are that one does not really know if he or she is dreaming, that one does not know wheth...

Comparative Analysis of the Philosophies of Galileo, Descartes, and St. Augustine on Science and Religion

In five pages this report contrasts and compares these scholars views on science and religion. Three sources are cited in the bib...

Hegel, Descartes, and Calvin on Free Will

In six pages the question 'Does it make any difference whether or not people have free will?' is responded to by this trio of phil...

Hume and Descartes Compared and Contrasted

This research report compares and contrasts the ideas of these two philosophers. Linear deductive reasoning is examined along with...

Meditations on the First Philosophy by Rene Descartes and 'Freeing the Mind'

In five pages this paper examines the French philosopher's text as it explains his approaches to recognizing knowledge that is 'tr...

Nietzsche, Kant, and Locke Perspectives on Western Philosophical Causality Since Descartes

In five pages the issue of causality and its nature regarding human existence understanding are examined from the philosophical pe...