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Essays 1861 - 1890
in his own personal progress at the cost of everything else. He was wholly supportive of the scientific community during the Enli...
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...
highest truth and certainty I have learned either from the senses or through the senses" (Descartes 29). But he is quick to note ...
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...
constructed and the meaning made perfectly clear so that all understand what types of behavior will be tolerated and which will no...
president, he had as much of an ardent following as he did a collection of adversaries; however, this diverse constituency reflect...
and symbols, that is, how abstract ideas are communicated through the mediums of language, writing and also through visual communi...
his theory of mind/body separation. His desire to achieve such an all-encompassing objective was meant to start at the beginning ...
is a body, "more numerous than the people which compose it," but it can "never be shown" because it is simply an abstraction (Kier...
As such, attempting to interpret knowledge, language and meaning is to draw from the innermost recesses of ones existence. Hermen...
a world in which there is much pleasure but the people are vicious, unless they derive pleasure from viciousness, which seems to b...
conclusions. Most logical claims can be refuted. Thus, logic in some way is not much better than perception. At least, one can say...
lived in a society where multifetal pregnancy reduction was a socially acceptable alternative to the numerous fetuses produced by ...
that Piaget didnt recognize that children could learn from their environment, however. Indeed, Piagets work reinforced the common...
serving as common denominators for any potentially unified answer: Mans beliefs are either perceptional or inferential in nature (...
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...
family, and how the state gets into the picture. II. German Political Theory When it comes to German political theory, there...
long and interesting historical evolution, and its origins are largely responsible for the reluctance of allopathic medical profes...
In five pages training programs of organizations are examined as they relate to Donald L. Kirkpatrick's work in an examination of ...
In order to explore his general theory, it pays to look at his Second Treatise of Civil Government. It is rather compelling and ...
childhood, during his early life, Socrates was a sculptor, following in the footsteps of his father, Sophroniscus (Wikpedia, 2003)...
believed that everything we had heard to the contrary from the Martin Luther Kings and the Roy Wilkinses and the Whiteny Youngs wa...
In five pages William Paley's teleological argument, St. Anselm's ontological argument, and St. Thomas Aquinas' cosmological argum...
The views of Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle are examined in this consideration of the preference for hylemorphism over materialism i...
which he writes that he was able to formulate only after his extensive observations that led to The Origin of Species. He came to...
Hume presented his arguments in a pair of treatises that are still considered required reading for any student of Western philosop...
did the so-called "technostructure" - the idea that technology can have an impact on the economy (Landry, 1998). Furthermo...
to immigration reform, attacking affirmative action programs, welfare reform and tort reform (1996). Joshua Murachik, quoting Eliz...