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to be happy, but to be happy he has to know what happiness is and how to achieve it (Alfarabi, p. 35). Here we come to the idea of...

AIDS education is something tied to a disease that has only surfaced at the end of the twentieth century and may have no relevance...

to be "yes." Problems arise however when we try to make certain that we are expressing meanings unambiguously; Quine among others...

reason" (Schlumpf 59). In modern society, there are enormous pressures that tempt business people to take shortcuts in order to ...

once again began drawing air into his lungs illustrates how this is not necessarily a definitive component of being dead. As such...

a prison takeover (Burke, 1995). Though unusual, if something like that were to happen, officials would be at an extreme disadvant...

but philosophers also argue that private property rights are necessary (even when they seem unfair) "for the ethical development o...

to break up that civilization into smaller units. The point being, love is doomed because society requires multiple, sanitized re...

he defends himself well, Socrates is still found guilty and stoically accepts his fate, indicating that since only the gods are aw...

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

is an attempt by technology to steal from God the mystery of creation, so that we might laugh at eternity without experiencing dea...

social spectrum. The old womans story also charts the fall and misfortunes of an individual who was once a beautiful young woman, ...

quickly taking over the world, leaving no room for anything else" (Williams, Dustin and McKenney, 2004). In his view, we were leav...

that society, or the perpetrators parents, should not be blamed for any horrific acts. The offender is the only one that someone s...

information we get today, seems to argues such things as the benefits of something but the dangers of that same item. Today people...

(Marquand, 1997, p. 1). Dennis Pigman, a minister of the Assembly of God and a former chaplain on the Arkansas death row, believes...

fully clothed to completely nude was a symbol in and of itself: Aphrodite had begun a journey exemplifying female physical beauty,...

if cats and dogs and other animals are pets and viewed as members of the family, how can people experiment on them and then put th...

if the Weber model is correct. Kilcullen points out that Weber "was perhaps the first great master of the major institutional fac...

in his account when he passed away. The email provider Yahoo claimed that due to a terms of service agreement, they could not allo...

the idea that the aristocracy was inherently better than other socioeconomic classes and, therefore, entitled by their superiority...

philosophers and playwrights, addressed themselves to the reality of the absurdity of life and argued that that its reality should...

knowledge has long been purported as the only viable means by which mankind truly knows how and if something exists; without empir...

by the theory of monism (Turner). The greatest strength of monism appears to be its simplicity: it admits of only one underlying c...

cosmological argument. As mentioned above, an ontological approach uses a deductive argument which "claims that its premises can b...

long and interesting historical evolution, and its origins are largely responsible for the reluctance of allopathic medical profes...

can help to guide the decision making and create a firm foundations that will help to ensure that the outcomes are the best possib...

"the agent ought to promote the self above other values" (Moseley, 2006). This is not as ugly as it sounds: it goes all the way ba...

Of all the claims that lack evidence, none are as morally immense or elusive as whether or not God exists. Supporters contend the...

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...