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Pragmatic Philosophy of William James

of moral responsibility, freedom of action, individual effort and aspiration" (Frost, 1962, p. 50). While a pure empiricist wou...

Teacher's Philosophy of Early Childhood Education

psychologically, socially and linguistically. A good ECE program will focus on all of these areas. Children are also developing mo...

Thales' Philosophy

in his approach, believing in a grand truth beyond our own reality (Eklor, 2003). By determining the basic component of life, Th...

The Social Role of Women and Auguste Comte

the basis for an advanced society" (p. 229). She quotes from Comtes Cours de philosophie positive (published in 1855) and explains...

Finnish Architect Alvar Aalto

Nerdinger (1999) states that the fact that the Workers Club was modeled on the Doges Palace in Venice -- "albeit with Doris column...

Aristotle and Plato Critiquing Education

as people do want to know things and understand (1995). Both theorists do view education as important and place a particular empha...

Jean Watson's Nursing Theories

the word alone that Watsons ideology is based not just upon clinical actions but upon the implementation of emotional availability...

Case Study of Japan's Komatsu Limited

such as the "F and F" project - Futures and Frontiers. Through this project, the company asked all employees to contribute ideas a...

Law, Power, and Politics According to Saint Thomas Aquinas

belief at the time (The Radical Academy, 2004). God gives this power to the people as a whole, not to individuals (The Radical Aca...

Morality and Religion According to Immanuel Kant

what no republic may dare" (1784). Interestingly, about five years after the writing of this piece the French would take the heads...

Beat Generation, Burroughs, and Kerouac

world which has lost its humanity. The insane way in which the book is put together only reinforces the theme of madness. I Dont W...

Comparative Analysis of Aristotle and Plato's Philosophies

that there is just one objective right way of doing things and on the other hand, there are many truths, is an enormous difference...

Looking at Empiricism and Rationalism

also believed in one realm. Spinoza writes: "By God, I mean a Being absolutely infinite -- that is, a substance consisting in inf...

Knowledge, What We Know and How We Know It

may use divergent approaches, such as those of feminism and critical enquiry. In the arguments of feminism there is a reflection o...

John Locke and David Hume on Knowledge

One will of course possess an impression from the sight, and supposes that there is a causal relationship between the flames and t...

Comparative Philosophical Analysis of Niccolo Machiavelli, Plato, and Aristotle

have been utilized in both historical and contemporary politics: (a) The use of diplomacy and the formation of coalitions; (b) Vio...

Religion According to Martin Heidegger

between knowing a subject and that object of thought and he presents this as an artificial distinction in that the object that one...

Creating a Personal Ethical Philosophy

that this is wrong. They believe that there is an intrinsic morality and that women should not be executed for committing adultery...

Theory of Dasein and Be-ing Devised by Martin Heidegger

how the very nature of perception is that which we, as humans, have been trained to discern as a species, inasmuch as the certain ...

Maxwell's There's No Such Thing As 'Business Ethics' There's Only One Rule Reviewed

As well see below, Maxwell is not highly in favor of so-called "ethical behavior," because he believes that ethics is very simply ...

Causation and David Hume

More specifically, Hume argued that cause is the idea that one event makes another event inevitable and/or necessary (The Philosop...

History and the Philosophies of Karl Marx

used to understand present and future situations. Interestingly, the author points out that when taking the models of socialism an...

Questions on Death of a Salesman Answered

His fathers expectations of him are something that Biff knows he can never fulfill, therefore, he becomes critical of himself when...

Contemporary Applications of Andrew Carnegie's Ideas

to devote a tremendous amount of effort in this criticism. Everyone holds blame equally in this phenomena. The poor criticize th...

Jainism, Buddhism, and Hinduism

the quest for atman , the knowledge of the self" emerged (Hinduism History, 2005). This took place between 400 B.C. and 600 A.D. (...

Religion and the Perspectives of Karl Marx

existence will continue and the thing that people are most afraid of-death-is something that is comprehended as tolerable. Death b...

Computer Viruses 'Cyber Ethics' and Personal Responsibility

illegal activity. Most agree that there is a definite distinction between "cracking" and "hacking". Although the term "cracking" ...

Justice Conceptual Inquiry

"what is justice?" and after a definition is provided, Socrates gets the interlocutor to make a statement that would obviously con...

Justice and Self Interest Philosophies

when it is expressed as a love of virtue, and justice when it is considered as one of many virtues. For Hobbes, self-interest "ta...

3 Epistemology Articles Evaluated

the idea that indeed, there is something that is true and real. Whether or not individual human beings know what that is, is besid...