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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...

Knowing Truth That Has Not Been Proven

However, we can also argue that the proof f this truth made no difference to whether the belief was true, being true even before i...

Personal Truths and Beliefs

People play devils advocate all the time, negating valid premises. This is how high priced attorneys win impossible cases and it i...

Using Plato's Apology to Find the Truth

This 5 page paper examines the way in which one can use the Socratic method to find the truth. The writer also discusses the conce...

Deterring Crime: The Effect of Truth in Sentencing

This 5 page paper examines those elements in current literature that suggest truth in sentencing may deter crime. The writer provi...

Saul Kripke's Philosophical Propositions

In five pages this paper examines the connections with 'a posteriori' and 'a priori' knowledge, contingent truth and necessary tru...

Women's Rights and a Speech by Sojourner Truth

offered chivalrous acts, such as with going through doors and stepping over mud puddles; however, she also acknowledges that she, ...

Defining Philosophy With the Help of Stephen Clark

In a paper consisting of five pages truth and reality are two of the components factored into a definition of philosophy as well a...

Doubt and Descartes

This research report looks at this ultimate skeptic and explores doubt and truth in terms of all intellectual propositions. Is Des...

Analysis of Sojourner Truth's Narrative

In five pages this paper examines the narrative that chronicles the amazing life of onetime slave and feminist activist Sojourner ...

Truth's Correspondence Theory

accept. According to Honderich (1995), what has already been said is true in that "whether what is said about the world is true s...

Student Question on a Person's Obligation to Obey Community Law

support for the notion that people must obey the laws of the place in which they are born. How is this accomplished? Aristotle d...

Absolute Threshold Determination

At what point can a human detect that particular pitch? The measurement is difficult and one has to wonder whether or not classica...

Comparing the American and French Revolutions in Terms of Causative Factors

reforms to France, however, it did not make France a democracy. The socioeconomic structure of pre-Revolutionary France was at th...

France's King Louis the Fourteenth and His Absolutism

was an absolute ruler, he kept his nobles living at court and as such their power base was impotent as they lacked independence an...

Political System of Saudi Arabia

must be handed down through the sons and grandsons of the founders family. King Abd-al-Aziz died in 1953 and power has been held b...

Joseph Nye/Paradox of American Power

which hold the possibility of balancing "diplomatic and informational power."vii Nye believes that the U.S. should take a stand be...

Absolute Advantage, Comparative Advantage and Opportunity Cost

in reality there are many nations trading many goods, and the development of trade has not followed this model (Seyoum, 1999). In ...

Absolute Sovereign Power According to Thomas Hobbes

as this being the basis of the way than man will then behave as a result of the toughs Hobbes attention turns to human nature. C...

French and British Political Development Contrasted

in the reign of Louis XIV. Referred to as pays detat, they had their own nobility, as well as unwritten constitutions that pertain...

Trade Theory and Cultural Influences

In three pages the impact of culture on mercantilism, absolute advantage, and comparative advantage is assessed. Two sources are ...

England's Limited Monarchy Development

In five pages this paper discusses the various factors that culminated in the dissolution of England's absolute monarchy with a li...

Three Brief Essays on Musical Topics

opium. The drug, too weak to kill, plunges him into a heavy sleep accompanied by strange visions. His sensations...are translated ...

Six Great Ideas by Mortimer Adler

one is fit to lead until and unless he is first able to guide his own self, is the credo upon which Plato lived. Man must work di...

The Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes and the Author's Authoritarian Views

In five pages this paper discusses the authoritarian stance regarding absolute government authority advocated by Thomas Hobbes in ...

Globalization's Advantages and Disadvantages

This paper consists of fifteen pages and considers globalization and its effects through an assessment of advantages and disdadvan...

Vocation of Man and Fichte's Philosophy

of vocation of Man, "Faith." "Idealism" is basically a way of perceiving and interpreting reality. Wherein materialism (re...

Hegelian Dialect and Historical Materialism

In five pages the theories of Hegel and Marx are contrasted and compared in a consideration of the absolute idealism dialect of He...

Natural Government Perspectives of Jean Domat and John Locke

In five pages this paper compares the perspectives that are presented in On Social Order and Absolute Power by Jean Domat and Seco...

Discussion of 10 Questions on Economics

In twenty four pages this essay examines 10 economics questions on such topics as the Heckscher-Ohlin Theorem, labor sourcing, abs...