YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Worldly Philosophers by Robert Heilbroner
Essays 271 - 300
the war has a specific goal in mind. NON-CHRISTIAN VIEWPOINT The problem, the non-Christian would say, is that these rules are ei...
that requires the transmission or transposition of the parts of those beings (1998). However, substances are simple unextended ent...
also saw mind and body as two separate substance. The Descartes position on the mind-body problem combines the idea of substance d...
contrary, that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning." Albert Camus in The Myth of Sisyphus. * Life is a tragedy fo...
of itself, is not the end of the line in relation to the state of religious toleration, inasmuch as its very definition is that of...
are told, when will others in the same position known if they are being told the truth, or will they assume the worse, harming hum...
of society. However, Hobbes is also making the assumption that human beings will able to ascertain what is the correct way of doin...
to immigration reform, attacking affirmative action programs, welfare reform and tort reform (1996). Joshua Murachik, quoting Eliz...
or of material things. Berkeleys philosophical stance of immaterialism or idealism simply denied the existence of matter all toge...
that appraisal in terms of wrong, immoral, or wicked is appropriate: only in this area that deterrence and retribution as they ope...
considered his philosophy to be heresy. Abbey (2004) notes that the work which gained Diderot the charge of disseminating pornogr...
little consequence when it came to the knowing the true nature of something. However, Montaigne seems to limit himself in that he ...
the limited liberty that they offered was not sufficient to the majority of Arabs in Algeria (Gildea 17). Albert Camus wrote, in...
is less important than the conversation which takes place, and since the two individuals are from periods in Greek history several...
enjoyment of what is good, not in the pride that he alone is enjoying it, to the exclusion of others. He who thinks himself more ...
they could, through their will, cause their actions to become universal law. Kant held that only those things that have bee...
positive reinforcement, for the happiest people are also those who are feeling well and living prosperous lives. These are not me...
would soon desire to take the car everywhere instead of walking, maintaining his own bodys requirements. Mans pursuit of the dolla...
too saw that the people needed leadership. The general public was thought not quite capable of making the big decisions. While Mac...
doing whatever one wants, with no regard to law (Krause, 2000). If independence must be sacrificed in order to achieve political ...
They are, instead, robot-like in that they do what they are told and do not question the validity of the teachings. Instead, peopl...
(Locke: The Origin of Ideas, 2003). Locke, unlike many of his peers, denied that certain knowledge was innate for human...
beautiful. However, how can one make such judgments without purpose? Why is something wrong? If there is no purpose to life no one...
our understanding of language, democracy, the individual (self), within both the public and private spheres. Rorty notes, for exa...
Each criticized the foundationalist approach advocated by Russell. Rorty (1989, 87), for example, insisted:...
upon them. For Egan, the teachers role is to allow the students to learn through abstract thought, previously thought too cognitiv...
property, and divine or eternal laws (Gasser, 2007). They did not necessarily agree but they both offered views on what we can ref...
was limited in size in capitalist nations and the one from which most members had hope of escape were they able to work for their ...
In five pages the perceptions of classical philosophers Machiavelli, Plato, and Aristotle are applied to defense management's ethi...
one else, ever); that he has the strength of character to keep the trust placed in him; and that he will deal kindly and justly wi...