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refers to the textbook that you provided links to. The brief said to reference this book, but your links gave no indication of the...

a certain way. Yet, there are problems that come up in perception. For example, people perceive objects differently, and sometimes...

certainty. I might as well take a shower. I hurried, in an effort to at least reduce the amount of time I would walk into the door...

is real? Again, the Cartesian Cogito is something that resolves the problem for some. Still, this is a problem that many philosoph...

morning and be blown up on a bus or go to a discotheque and be killed in an explosion. These are not unusual scenarios there. For ...

Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...

was changing in terms of philosophy. John Lockes The Second Treatise of Civil Government is rather compelling and in fact, free ch...

the idea that there are reasons for implementing law beyond the idea of just maintaining law and order. Other supporters of positi...

Theravada Buddhism was the original form, which was based on lengthy meditation and required...

and Cavaliers differ somewhat from those that are associated with Europe. What we most often remember in America is the differenc...

not merely things to be used to reach ones goal, but are sentient beings with worth beyond measure. The golden rule may be interp...

tendencies within society and the fact that people are far too concerned with their own well being to fend for those who cannot fe...

Many contend that while God is all good, man has free will and brings the suffering on himself. At the same time, animals cannot r...

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

While Hume appears down to Earth and logical, he is, in a very general sense, a skeptic. He notes that there is a battle between r...

strive for bigger and better opportunities, to reach beyond what has become comfortable and consistent in order to attain that whi...

does not love and who is better than twenty years older than her. Then, his son goes into the future son-in-laws bank and manages ...

lie to the police, and fabricate "evidence," in order to protect her daughter from possible harm? Or, should she allow her daughte...

have anticipated the degradation that would take place toward the trees, grass and animals, all of whom are just as integral to th...

exist myriad philosophies by which people live their lives, which help maintain order and a sense of direction that otherwise woul...

there is continuity through time in terms of personal identity and her doubt about her own continuing identity is contradicted by...

speaker is Philo, a religious skeptic (Johnson 266). The discussion is chiefly between Philo and Cleanthes, with occasional remar...

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

social order and how it was best managed. The founder of this school of though; Confucius, also known as Kong Zi or Master Kong, l...

2002). It is the dominant religion in India and Nepal Dating back to prehistoric times, it is no surprise that Hinduism has had a...

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

highest truth and certainty I have learned either from the senses or through the senses" (Descartes 29). But he is quick to note ...

trade. Barbaric pursuits held no interest, and the Chinese certainly knew their medicine and culture were vastly superior. ...

to living their lives at the mercy of their rulers. The vote for colonial democracy was a vote for the freedoms that are intrinsi...

Republic, 2002). Therefore, according to this theory, knowledge of anything and understanding of anything comes from examination ...