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In three pages this paper considers whether or not learning is new information or simply recollection of past experience according...

In two pages this paper considers how Socrates presents the soul's immortality in Phaedo by Plato. There are no other sources lis...

student sees in relationship to what the image can present: "but of the ideas which they resemble; not of the figures which they d...

words, "how does one KNOW that this is the truth". Most of Socrates teaching took place on the steps of a Lyceum, much like an a...

background, the points which Gray (2001) makes are surprising to say the least. Gray (2001) sees the war we as a society are wagi...

also wrote that one could live justly only if they lived in a just society (Beck, n.d.). Plato had a number of caveats about a jus...

to heart disease and diabetes (Webster, 1999). Thanks to biogenetics, in fact, researchers can grow human cells in the laboratory ...

if it is taken outside of the context of societal situations. For Nozick, justice is more clearly a function of societal roles a...

ethical relativism is to examine the wide and varying societal rules that bind one to ones cultural existence. Indeed, it is impo...

In six pages this paper discusses the strengths and weaknesses of various philosophical theories with the utilitarianism of John S...

In five pages this paper examines what it means 'to be' in a consideration of the philosophical debate on existence between Aristo...

are the core of moral tradition as defined within the context of societal constraints. Most people associate moral tradition with...

the civilization that had sprung up, flourished for centuries, and now stood on the brink of massive change in his native land of ...

Hobbes believed that people, when left to their own governance, that is, without official laws and government, live in continual...

like the male philosophers of the day. She was the exception. While by and large, the people saw women as having a subservient pla...

2002, p.PG). The author explains that the things Occidentalists hate about the West are not just the ones that inspire hatred ; so...

that when things were fully developed, and had naturally reached their conclusion - or ending - they were simply following their n...

simple to Descartes, so simple it needs no argument. He basically says that as long as one is thinking, one exists. To Descartes, ...

mean "The Way and its Power" (Rasmussen, 2002). The philosophy which would result did so in direct response to a number of social...

(Spinks, 2003). Spinks (2003) writes: "Nietzsches immoral philosophy seeks to overcome the reactive morality of good and evil impo...

In five pages this paper considers 3 of Kant's formulations regarding a lone categorical imperative as presented in his philosophi...

In five pages this paper examines why wives grow tired of their husbands and leave them in an application of a philosophical argum...

This paper discusses Richard Kraut's commentary on the intellectual elitism of Aristotle an defines virtue in this overview of Ari...

In a paper consisting of seven pages the concept of marriage rooted in friendship is a view shared by Barbara Whitehead and Aristo...

In three pages this paper discusses China's post Confucianism cultural and philosophical transitions within the context of this bo...

Poetics by Aristotle is used as a springboard for this topic. Aristotle's take on tragedy is the focus of this paper. This five ...

what is real and what is perceived, and the one is not dependent on the other. Naturalism states that it is the laws of nature whi...

a fictitious narrative (Marenbon 40). His texts successfully incorporated quantitative and qualitative perspectives (Nasr and Raz...

wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves social needs. A number of philosophers have contributed to the debate which...

and ones existence. To reach true happiness, Plato contended that people must strive for a contentment that only comes from being...