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Essays 1861 - 1890

Comparing the Philosophies of Friedrich Nietzsche and Karl Marx

in his own personal progress at the cost of everything else. He was wholly supportive of the scientific community during the Enli...

Cloning and the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant

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...

Philosophy and False Relativism

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...

Meditations on First Philosophy and Systemic Doubt of Rene Descartes

highest truth and certainty I have learned either from the senses or through the senses" (Descartes 29). But he is quick to note ...

Film The Matrix and the Philosophies of Rene Descartes and Jean Paul Sartre

the world, but only derive essence later. In other words, a human is nothing to start with, and the essence of the person comes fr...

Meaning and Philosophy

constructed and the meaning made perfectly clear so that all understand what types of behavior will be tolerated and which will no...

Theodore Roosevelt: Philosophy And Programs

president, he had as much of an ardent following as he did a collection of adversaries; however, this diverse constituency reflect...

Christian Educational Philosophy

and symbols, that is, how abstract ideas are communicated through the mediums of language, writing and also through visual communi...

Relationship Between Baconian And Cartesian Philosophy During The Scientific Revolution

his theory of mind/body separation. His desire to achieve such an all-encompassing objective was meant to start at the beginning ...

Kierkegaard and Sartre: Philosophies

is a body, "more numerous than the people which compose it," but it can "never be shown" because it is simply an abstraction (Kier...

Philosophy Of Teaching

As such, attempting to interpret knowledge, language and meaning is to draw from the innermost recesses of ones existence. Hermen...

W.D. Ross and the Philosophy of Pleasure and Pain

a world in which there is much pleasure but the people are vicious, unless they derive pleasure from viciousness, which seems to b...

Perception and Logic in Philosophy

conclusions. Most logical claims can be refuted. Thus, logic in some way is not much better than perception. At least, one can say...

Kantian Philosophy and Multifetal Pregnancy Reduction

lived in a society where multifetal pregnancy reduction was a socially acceptable alternative to the numerous fetuses produced by ...

Educational Philosophies of Jean Piaget

that Piaget didnt recognize that children could learn from their environment, however. Indeed, Piagets work reinforced the common...

Philosophy Shapes Research, Research Shapes Practice

serving as common denominators for any potentially unified answer: Mans beliefs are either perceptional or inferential in nature (...

Themes in the Philosophy of Aquinas

as it moves form lower life forms towards more perfect higher forms that are capable of varying degrees of intelligence and ration...

The Little Philosophy Book (Review)

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...

German Philosophy: Family, Society and Government

family, and how the state gets into the picture. II. German Political Theory When it comes to German political theory, there...

The ‘Philosophy’ of Massage Therapy

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

Training Philosophies According to Donald L. Kirkpatrick

In five pages training programs of organizations are examined as they relate to Donald L. Kirkpatrick's work in an examination of ...

Property Rights and the Political Philosophy of John Locke

In order to explore his general theory, it pays to look at his Second Treatise of Civil Government. It is rather compelling and ...

Philosophy of Socrates

childhood, during his early life, Socrates was a sculptor, following in the footsteps of his father, Sophroniscus (Wikpedia, 2003)...

Malcolm X's Life and Philosophy

believed that everything we had heard to the contrary from the Martin Luther Kings and the Roy Wilkinses and the Whiteny Youngs wa...

Arguments in Philosophy

In five pages William Paley's teleological argument, St. Anselm's ontological argument, and St. Thomas Aquinas' cosmological argum...

Materialism, Hylemorphism, and Philosophy

The views of Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle are examined in this consideration of the preference for hylemorphism over materialism i...

Action and Movement in the Philosophies of Charles Darwin

which he writes that he was able to formulate only after his extensive observations that led to The Origin of Species. He came to...

David Hume's 'Miraculous' Philosophy

Hume presented his arguments in a pair of treatises that are still considered required reading for any student of Western philosop...

Economic Philosophies of John Kenneth Galbraith

did the so-called "technostructure" - the idea that technology can have an impact on the economy (Landry, 1998). Furthermo...

Conservative Political Philosophy

to immigration reform, attacking affirmative action programs, welfare reform and tort reform (1996). Joshua Murachik, quoting Eliz...