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Chapter Overview of On Liberty by J.S. Mill

evolving to take its place (Terchek 583). Mill pictured as this new culture as giving rise to the "higher types" of culture and o...

The Thematic Element in Art

song of Liling is that which provides us with the foundation of the story. Now, of course, the music and the song actually serv...

Seeking Answers in the Cosmos with Sir Isaac Newton, Galileo, Tycho Brahe, Copernicus, Ptolemy, and Aristotle

In ten pages this paper examines the lives and astronomical contributions both literally and figuratively speaking as they relate ...

Appropriation, Simulation and David Carson

new. One artist who does this is Yasumasa Morimura; his work is "often understood as part of that international tendency of the la...

David McCullough, A Great Historian

The real question is, what kind of historian is he? II. Biography In examining the life and works of any writer, biography is ...

Triangle: The Fire that Changed America by David Von Drehle

thesis is how this fire changed something in America. The author begins by illustrating many people and movements involving...

FIDES ET RATIO

understanding of truth and communicating the truth of the Gospel to those who do not yet know it" (Pope John Paul II, Introduction...

Forms Philosophy of Plato

to the average man who does not embark on philosophical pursuits, and does not wonder how the world began but accepts the explanat...

Play and Film Versions of Glengarry Glen Ross Compared

The play is divided into two acts, containing three scenes in the first and two scenes in the second. It centers...

Henry David Thoreau's Concept of Wilderness

He believed nature and the wilderness to be the source of strength, vigor and inspiration. He even referred to the wilderness as ...

Comparing Theories of Thomas Hobbes and Polybius

to be held in such high esteem as to the exclusion of all other government. Yet, Hobbes did not have much faith in people and tho...

American Indian College

Two American Indian scholars, David, Risling, Jr. and Dr. Jack Forbes wanted to establish D-Q University that was designed especia...

Life and Economic Theories of John Maynard Keynes

In three pages The Worldly Philosophers by Heilbroner is considered in a discussion of John Maynard Keynes' life and economic theo...

Apology of Plato and Counterarguments

In six pages Socrates arguments, counterarguments and the great philosopher's defense techniques are examined. Four sources are c...

Apology of Plato and Its Meaning

Plato's Apology is examined in 5 pages in a structural and rhetorical analysis of the philosopher's defense of his teacher Socrate...

War Portraits of Goya and David

In five pages the differing views of Goya and David on war and its nature are considered in the romantic May Third 1808 and the ne...

Morality and Man According to John Locke

In five pages Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding is referenced in a discussion of the philosopher's perspectives rega...

Consideration of the Quote 'No Man is an Island'

In five pages this quote is considered within the context of injustice in a discussion of such works as Chief Joseph's I Will Figh...

Pleasure According to Aristotle

In six pages Aristotle's view of pleasure in terms of where it resides within the context of a happy life is examined with the ass...

Jacques-Louis David, Analysis of 2 Works

This essay/research paper presents a short biography of David and then offers analysis of two works, which are "The Oath of the Ho...

Metochos, the Views of David Allen

This essay pertains to theologian David L. Allen's interpretation of the Greek work "metochos" in the Hebrews. Three pages in leng...

Peirce and Hume on Skepticism

director of our own narrative, but we can never say for certain how the story will end. Although we make plans, and try to foresee...

Alexis de Tocqueville and Karl Marx on Equality and Liberty

Marx, the freedom was not in the ability to acquire wealth, or the opportunities, but rather in equality. It was the ability to li...

Explaining the Difference in Human Nature Theories of Saint Augustine and Plato

important characteristics of Platos concept revolve around freedom of will and ones existence. People have the power to control t...

Contrasting and Comparison of the Virtue Philosophical Perspectives of Aristotle and Confucius

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

State Views of Aristotle and John Locke

in which truth is believed to derive chiefly from experience" (Nichols, 2003, p. 20). In order to explore his general theory, it p...

Kierkegaard on Human Nature

or that their lives are even close to resembling those of the first disciples?" (as qtd. in Galli, 2002, p.62). He poses a good qu...

The Sinai Accords and Henry Kissinger

sure it exists". Background Since the division of Palestine in 1947 and the creation of the new state of Israel in 1948 whi...

Apperception Principle of Immanuel Kant

circumstances or the surrounding empirical conditions (158). Kant goes on to elaborate on this point but concludes with an interes...

Does Meditations Represent a Contradictory Rene Descartes?

that can render a thought or a concept wrong. One can do a study one day to prove that cholesterol is bad, and then another day, a...