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fine, but teaching them what counts is best." This quote, which includes a clever play on words, suggests a very practical approac...

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

As things now stand, much is lacking which prevents men from being, or easily becoming, capable of correctly using their own reaso...

they bear responsibility for the budget advice they produce. The division manager reviews this budget but cannot make changes, ma...

of each association, and in which each, while uniting himself with all, may still obey himself alone, and remain as free as before...

difficult to define as it is a philosophy that originated with one philosopher (Kierkegaard) but has been embraced by a good numbe...

no date). The senses are most attuned when the metaphysical component of time is involved, with a brief moment remembered f...

they realize that they may not be able to survive. They only have to come up with the money because an old, poor friend married a ...

is not that everyone just does what they think is right or what society tells them is right, but they sense that something good co...

particularly interesting examination of the variation that exists even in the face of a transcending moral code can be made with a...

say that while the theorists do each embrace the same explanation as to why political authority must exist, they do not agree on w...

hesitate to say what he believed and never compromised" (Thomas Mott Osbornes Within Prison Walls). In 1913, Osborne "was appoi...

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

to discover the absolute. When you have arrived at the journeys end then you have achieved absolute knowledge. In order to attain...

Even in the absence of hard and fast codes of ethics such as those that exist for some professions, there are certain basic guidel...

tangled when one relies on the system to teach. In fact, when examining contemporary life, one can see that a large compliant abou...

from a degree of torment, the sources of our greatest joys lying awkwardly close to those of our greatest pain" (De Botton 215). ...

what is not. Descartes method of systematic doubt is to "reject as if absolutely false anything as to which I could imagine t...

persuasive arguments, Aristotle mentions three techniques: pathos, ethos and logos (What is logos?) "Pathos" (from which we get th...

in a firm that specialized in antitrust lawsuits ("John Paul Stevens," 2006). In 1970, Stevens was appointed by President Nixon to...

or sight) was subjected to each individuals standards of judgment. Whereas concrete facts were not changeable or subject to ones i...

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

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

need to resolve these problems and that all values of the society can be known and evaluated (DiNitto 5). It further assumes that ...

What is Imagination? Imagination is "the power of the mind to consider things which are not present to the senses, and to consid...

been warriors but are now too docile for their own survival. Those who are poor are not poor because of the system, but are poor b...

of dressing appropriately for the formal work environment. What if you long for the outdoors and physical activity? It is a clich?...

a larger number of people were appraised of the issues. Understanding who these past groups were allows one to adequately compare...

deal of power into one ruler (or, at the very least, a collection of rulers who wont end up fighting among themselves)....

Weavers Ideas Have Consequences speaks to the complexities that emanate from mans shortcomings about the world around him. The co...