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Essays 271 - 300
they tend to see the world with blinders on. They may not be as sympathetic to another individual if they embrace a particular per...
that is permanent and immutable. It is this world that is more real; the world of change is merely an imperfect image of this worl...
"...no man will benefit from his profession unless he is paid as well" (Plato, 2003, p.28). One can easily see that Plato does not...
what is not. Descartes method of systematic doubt is to "reject as if absolutely false anything as to which I could imagine t...
which we, the reader or viewer, can relate to. We see them as noble individuals who demonstrate weakness, yet still battle against...
perfect, despite what we observe. Forms are beyond this material world, for nothing that we can grasp in this world is perfect."3 ...
In a paper consisting of seven pages the philosopher Bonnette is compared with Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle in the contention that...
and the construction company wants to get on with their job of building whatever. Henry David Thoreau, in Walden Pond, written i...
a leader? How should a prince behave? Although the motive for Machiavelli writing this piece, and the application of this work to ...
theory is brought forth numerous times throughout Aristotles well-read and well-quoted Nichomachean Ethics. Aristotles vie...
the society and, subsequently, from the self. Sartres concept of alienation was certainly different from Marxs. Of course, Mar...
simple to Descartes, so simple it needs no argument. He basically says that as long as one is thinking, one exists. To Descartes, ...
Plato emphasizes the importance of maintaining self control in the face of eros, the importance of purging the passions of the fle...
theory of "seeing is believing" and that something must be touched in order to be a reality. According to Goellnitz, one s...
of that century, the French philosopher, Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) developed his metaphysical theories known as "occasionali...
right or correct, or is there something about that action itself that God recognizes, and for this reason declares the action corr...
to properly identify herself surely saved lives. In the hypothetical situation at hand, there is no heroism, so it would be diffic...
Olympic Games that the Greeks initiated. On the other hand, most of the Greek citizens were obliged to labor for the purpos...
attempt to free themselves. What he has realized is that what they had seen all along on the wall of the cave were mere representa...
that when things were fully developed, and had naturally reached their conclusion - or ending - they were simply following their n...
of all, it establishes his character as a nobility in his own right, as he is descended from royalty. Furthermore, Othellos simple...
84). However, Socrates is willing to concede that an individual can desire an evil thing if he mistakenly first evaluates it as go...
is supplemented by innate elements of the intellect (DeLouth, 2002). This theory keyed into the nature-nurture debate. Skipping ...
2002, p.PG). The author explains that the things Occidentalists hate about the West are not just the ones that inspire hatred ; so...
away in the most inaccessible part of the abbeys labyrinthine library, where it remained for decades" (Essay on The Name of the Ro...
a body" (Aristotle), Plato illustrates his inability to see beyond mankinds mortal connection, opting instead to focus upon a deci...
top the list. The Catholic Church is often quoted as having said, "Give me a child until he is seven and he will always be Catholi...
things that are not concrete, but ideas. This type of thinking, the student could state, however, really puts a hold on empirical ...
(2002) argument is based on his experiences as first a federal prosecutor, then a trial judge, and finally a California Superior C...
for example, would exist even if there were no human beings there to see it, but not that colour was an independent spiritual form...