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Essays 1801 - 1830
a world in which there is much pleasure but the people are vicious, unless they derive pleasure from viciousness, which seems to b...
As such, attempting to interpret knowledge, language and meaning is to draw from the innermost recesses of ones existence. Hermen...
long and interesting historical evolution, and its origins are largely responsible for the reluctance of allopathic medical profes...
family, and how the state gets into the picture. II. German Political Theory When it comes to German political theory, there...
as it moves form lower life forms towards more perfect higher forms that are capable of varying degrees of intelligence and ration...
book may be considered very light reading and perhaps this was the authors intent. After all, he has made a career of trying to re...
highest truth and certainty I have learned either from the senses or through the senses" (Descartes 29). But he is quick to note ...
constructed and the meaning made perfectly clear so that all understand what types of behavior will be tolerated and which will no...
for example, would exist even if there were no human beings there to see it, but not that colour was an independent spiritual form...
in his own personal progress at the cost of everything else. He was wholly supportive of the scientific community during the Enli...
world, one would find the "ideal tree of which all trees which we see are copies, the ideal house and ideas of all other objects i...
(Nietzsche, 1974). It does seem to be true that when someone supports old institutions and mainstays they are applauded by the lar...
manner in order to attain end-E" (Honderich, 1995, p. 436). For example, a person might resolve to pay a bill as soon as it is rec...
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...
in earlier times it was regarded only as the poor relation of quantitative research that nearly always was less reliable and far l...
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...
acknowledging it as the source from which the mind receives sensory information. However, Kant argued that the mind cannot know th...
Crises arise that usher in change, systems achieve equilibrium for a time and then begin to change again, leading to another round...
dilemma of a single woman who is part of what the politicians and social scientists refer to as a member of the "working poor" soc...
In five pages Aristotle's concept of happiness with an emphasis upon a life of contemplation is discussed. Five sources are cited...
agree with Aristotles ideas, and see morality as a living concept, and something that should not be tampered with. What might Aris...
of subjective satisfaction (Seifert, 2003). Moral goodness just is. One looks at a baby or a puppy and thinks that these living th...
of that century, the French philosopher, Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) developed his metaphysical theories known as "occasionali...
strive for bigger and better opportunities, to reach beyond what has become comfortable and consistent in order to attain that whi...
corporate, organized around a concept of ultimate reality" (9). The reality conjured by these beliefs, actions and experiences ca...
contributions to ethical and social theory" (Anonymous John Stuart Mill 1806-1873, 2002; MILL.HTM). In his work "Principles of ...
of the same) is "reason" rather than the self-conscious "I." One may then extend the concept from ethical ideas to morality, whic...
Camus relates the substance of the Greek myth and how Sisyphus was condemned to endlessly roll a rock up a hill in the underworld,...
While Hume appears down to Earth and logical, he is, in a very general sense, a skeptic. He notes that there is a battle between r...
well-being but our physical well-being also. For instance, Terry (54) tells us that music has been widely recommended as a techni...