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guessing his parents. An eight year old may argue that it is proper for him to go to a particular event by himself, but his parent...

youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...

education is still substantially elevated in contemporary culture. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees virtue as choice and so mora...

challenged mankinds very conscience. He retreated to Walden Pond in order to refresh his own character and to effectively remove ...

It is in the Second Meditation, however, that the apparent flaw in his logic appears and gives rise to the Cartesian Circle. In th...

our understanding of language, democracy, the individual (self), within both the public and private spheres. Rorty notes, for exa...

Taoism, or flowing with the Tao (Dao) is best translated into English as "The Way", "The Flow of Things", the "Course of Nature", ...

human being from conception to death is encapsulated in a pod. In Platos Cave the only thing that they can see is...

ethical, philosophical, and moral issues that characterize the one delivery mechanism also characterize the other. A particular c...

in such a case: 1. They can tell the child what happened. 2. They can pretend that they dont know what happened. 3. They...

philosophical movement that appeared in Great Britain and suggested that all knowledge is experiential ("British," 2004). In other...

have been utilized in both historical and contemporary politics: (a) The use of diplomacy and the formation of coalitions; (b) Vio...

critics, his reputation and fame has never been truly compromised. He has added a great deal in terms of thought in a variety of d...

develops his inquiry into the contention to see if it holds up to scrutiny: SOCRATES: And when a jury is rightly convinced of fact...

solution. Rousseau was an individual who attempted to incorporate civil religion as that solution. One author tells us that "Rouss...

teachers beliefs, principles, convictions and interpretation of reality are all pertinent. They influence the students and so it i...

of knowledge through experience, and so is the basis for synthetic statements that are linked to a postiori knowledge. Kant used ...

horrible situations such as one that would deem them a "vegetable" do have some thinking capacity perhaps. Yet, is a disembodied m...

here on Earth. This of course, did not go over well with the Church who was used to organizing everyones life on Earth. Reason, th...

contradictory, which is why he is so controversial. One can take the meaning of Mills writings to suggest that individuality rules...

who could argue with that idea? Of course, capital punishment is an ongoing debate and one that has been around for centuries. Als...

course of action is often jumbled. Is the patient cognizant enough to make the correct choices? Many issues come into play when a...

normal children do. However, these tasks that ordinary children dont think twice about, offer sincere and daunting challenges to t...

points which are "1) God is defined as the being in which none greater is possible; 2) It is true that the notion of God exists i...

can one know what is beautiful or what is ugly? There must be some sort of shared experience. Plato uses a cave allegory--somethi...

correct them by illustrating how values are an integral component of personhood. Indeed, it can readily be argued how the concept...

attacks were largely carried out by those fighting for their freedom from a corrupt system (the Russian Revolution) or for the fre...

Indeed, it seems that within the context of philosophy, there is a wrestling with religious thought, because it is from the rejec...

problem is that in 1970, it was suggested that Nestle was profiting at the expense of third world mothers. While breast-feeding is...

exactly? Wikipedia defines it as follows: " Extortion is a criminal offense, which occurs when a person obtains money, behaviour, ...