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Radical Doubt in the Philosophy of Rene Descartes

philosophy" was intent on raising philosophical debate above the aesthetic and theological interests which had held it captive for...

Philosophy and False Relativism

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...

Comparing and Contrasting 'Ar'n't I A Woman?' and 'What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?'

This 5 page essay considers how Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass attempt to through literature chronical the struggles of th...

Relationship Between Truth and History

(which could mean anytime between the early 1990s and today, Coetzees "spare" novel (as some critics have called it) concerns Davi...

Witnessing Events in Albert Camus' The Stranger

his mother and we do not understand what type of relationship they had together. We also begin to understand that he and his mothe...

Feminist George Eliot

In her novels, Eliot seems to rail against the fact that a woman must be a certain type of person and act a certain way...

Expatriates and Their Writings

each other often about literary topics as well as the war (Tender is the Night). It was during this time in France that Fitzger...

2nd Meditation of Rene Descartes

Rene Descartes' Second Meditation is analyzed in 5 pages with sensory information interpretation and truth the primary focus of di...

Justice and Abortion According to Bernard Boxill and Ronald Dworkin

In ten pages the opinions contained within Boxill's Blacks and Social Justice and Dworkin's Life's Dominions are examined as they ...

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In eight pages this paper analyzes this classic American novel and its confrontation of post First World War truths about the Amer...

Buddhism's 8 Fold Path

In eight pages Buddhist concepts of karma, samsara, and nirvana are considered in this overview of the eightfold path and four nob...

General Overview of Life's Origins

In five pages this paper examines life's origins in this general overview. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

Truth and Order in 'Over 2000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance' by Elizabeth Bishop

In five pages this paper analyzes 'Over 2000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance' by Elizabeth Bishop in terms of function, s...

Importance and Evolution of Odysseus

episode. Examining the evolution and fundamental importance of Odysseus life brings one to consider the elements of ethics ...

Analysis of Emily Dickinson's Poetry

The truths of our lives are such that we often see only a part for a time and perhaps even forever. Even those truths...

Comparing Platonism and Atomism

concerning change in the world. Although the methods of reasoning they used were not those of the modern scientific method, it is ...

'Araby,' 'Casino,' and 'Story of an Hour'

storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone. She would have no one follow her" (Chopin p. NA). She retires ...

Machiavelli's Beliefs on Truth as a Princely Duty

a leader? How should a prince behave? Although the motive for Machiavelli writing this piece, and the application of this work to ...

Mahatma Gandhi's 'Goodl Life' According to Aristotle

In eight pages this paper examines Mahatma Gandhi's life in an application of Aristotle's 'good life' concepts. Two sources are c...

How Incredible Odds Against Them Were Overcome by Benjamin Franklin and Frederick Douglass

to construct a code for living that would be world-renowned. One of his favorite stories concerned a formative period in hi...

Oedipus Rex by Sophocles and Social Values

extremely civic-minded society and active participation in the democratic process was demanded of everyone. No one took his polit...

The Concepts of Justice and Truth in Cervantes' Don Quixote

Quixote does hold some hope for the future. Cervantes was also disgruntled with the political systems as well. Just as Don Quixote...

Life and its Meaning Questioned

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...

Truth in the Works of Saint Augustine of Hippo and Jonathan Swift

on to reflect that the skins of women at home appear beautiful because we cannot see these small defects under normal circumstance...

Media Distortion

to take lightly. However, it appears that those who report the news do not take into consideration the very lives their stories a...

Harry T. Moore and His Contributions to the Civil Rights Movement

taken with a bomb explosion on Christmas night in 1951 (Green, 1999). Ironically, this was also the night of their twenty-fifth w...

Truth in Poetry

truth that was eventually revealed. While we may argue he could have looked for the truth, rather than running from it, thereby sp...

Liberal and Republican Views on Slavery and Emancipation

Indeed, Douglass (1960) book portrays a man living within himself in order to escape the atrocities of a nonliberal life; if not a...

A 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone' Excerpt

remember the dream he had been having. It had been a good one" (Rowling 19). Contemporary Children First and foremost, we note...

Richard Rorty and Immanuel Kant on Truth

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...