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This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...

and bring the concept back to reality, most people know someone who gets wonderful grades in school, but does not have a lick of c...

human nature is bound by the weakness of mans character? In short, Platos (1979) freed prisoner is himself, the cave reflects the...

be the first cause (Philosophy Online, n.d.). 3. Everything that exists at one time did not and may not at some time in the future...

Christ. The polytheistic society of ancient Greece was already moving toward belief in a single god by the time of Plato and his ...

born a Jew and lived under the Jewish law and system (Galatians 4:4). * Jesus life was characterized by service and humility (Phil...

teaching, in which he pretended not to know the answers to questions, so that students would come to understanding on their own. ...

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

virtue, i.e., justice, but it is also included under Aquinas discussion of love, specifically under love of ones neighbor, for Go...

if Charity is "something created in the soul" (Aquinas 17). Without background knowledge on this debate, his points become somewha...

truth that transcends the traditional means of understanding or knowing. For Aquinas, reason does have limitations. He writes: "N...

those who would do evil. Augustine couched his ideas on government within his concept of two cities, an earthly city and a city o...

he could grasp with his own intellect, what he could actually perceive by his own senses, and what a trustworthy person told him. ...

In seven pages this paper considers capital punishment and three arguments such as retribution, intolerable capital offenses, and ...

either way, according to McCloskey, is that Gods omnipotence is limiting to his being in light of how He cannot be at once be both...

to petition the government for a redress of grievances" ("First Amendment")). The idea of the separation of church and state was i...

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...

cause of the effect must possess as much reality as the effect. Furthermore, Descartes asserts that any cause must have as much p...

Kant believed that accessing this moral law which was indeed universal consisted of relying on our own instincts, not in the realm...

idea that nothing comes from nothing. Reality in itself must come from a cause that is at least equal if not more so than its effe...

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

image, a form, or a judgement, and concludes that an image or what individuals perceive as form can never be false. However, erro...

In five pages this paper presents the argument that race does not exist because there is no proof that it does. Three sources are...

In twelve pages the impact of Hume's arguments regarding miracles on religious thought is assessed in terms of whether or not God ...

In three pages the writer criticizes Kierkegaard's argument and counters the philosophical logic used in the contention that reaso...

In ten pages An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke and Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes are asses...

patients who were able to learn the art of "conscious relaxation" not only were able to quit smoking and eat better, but showed im...

the fire next to him. Therefore, he reasons that the effect, the idea of God, must have a cause in reality. Descartes writes, "B...

a B by virtue of having the same answers as the student who actually did his own work on the final (Cohen, 2004)....

than a man can do the same for God, if there is a God. In essence, if God exists then God is a being that is capable of creating a...