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will a universal law" (Immanuel Kant). In ethics of choice, Kantian philosophy dictates that intention or consequences can ...
Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...
This, he asserted, was mans freedom of the will, in which people are able to determine their own choices, rather than be automatic...
corporate, organized around a concept of ultimate reality" (9). The reality conjured by these beliefs, actions and experiences ca...
but in those areas where the student was lagging a remediation course was offered in-house for the student. This seems logical, si...
not merely things to be used to reach ones goal, but are sentient beings with worth beyond measure. The golden rule may be interp...
In twenty pages this paper examines Great Britain's post compulsory education from political, cultural, and socioeconomic perspect...
texts The Republic and Crito, Plato learned his lessons well. In both works, Plato theorizes what justice is through deductive re...
what Descartes believed to be the existence of humanity and humanitys understanding of what knowledge truly is. In a comparison of...
In five pages this paper examines pessimism and whether or not optimism exists in this philosophical consideration of Voltaire, Sc...
This paper examines the true meaning of the very vague word, good. The author points out that the word has two separate and unique...
In five pages Descartes' Second Meditation is explored in terms of his analysis of what the perception of melting beeswax would be...
work on the dual nature of man, which puts him firmly in the camp of philosophers. But he also had a tremendous influence on psych...
mans capacity for creating deceptive notions with his Idols of the Tribe, which he attributes as being applicable only to the huma...
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...
constructed and the meaning made perfectly clear so that all understand what types of behavior will be tolerated and which will no...
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...
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...
in his own personal progress at the cost of everything else. He was wholly supportive of the scientific community during the Enli...
highest truth and certainty I have learned either from the senses or through the senses" (Descartes 29). But he is quick to note ...
if the "future is set and cannot be altered or whether free will makes that future a possibility rather than a certainty" (Berardi...
history. This paper describes his life, how he formed his beliefs, and what his contemporaries thought of him. It also discusses h...
in earlier times it was regarded only as the poor relation of quantitative research that nearly always was less reliable and far l...
for the student of psychology to develop a well-rounded and complete understanding of the discipline, it is necessary to study bot...
simplest gift of God" (Ortberg 67). In other words, celebration is when we stop to appreciate Gods wondrous gift of life, such as ...
In six pages this paper analyzes the contention of Socrates that an 'unexamined life is not worth living' as this view is represen...
We can better understand this by invoking a comparison. A generalist would demand sameness in terms of how something functions ca...
learning, which was the current philosophy of his day (American Philosopher John Dewey). Since the inception of Deweys e...
Each criticized the foundationalist approach advocated by Russell. Rorty (1989, 87), for example, insisted:...