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or reflections of a separate world of independently existing, eternal, and unchanging entities called "forms" or "ideas." Ordinary...

the idea of punishment; the God of the Old Testament is particularly fierce in his judgments. So perhaps morality is in reality f...

"experienced" internally in some manner, as well as externally via touch or logical use of the item in daily living. In thi...

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

Father, as being from above, and other such phrases (Kasper, 1978, p. 173). Jesus was in all ways like us with one great exceptio...

one thing causing another to come into existence. While scientists can argue persuasively that the Big Bang was the beginning of t...

with a wholly different sort of argument. He states that if the universe has an intelligent designer (i.e., the cosmological argum...

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...

cosmological argument. As mentioned above, an ontological approach uses a deductive argument which "claims that its premises can b...

God uses to point to Himself as the power (Samons, 2012). Examples of miracles in the Old Testament include God parting the Red S...

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at skepticism in philosophy. The skeptical writings of Montaigne, Pascal, and Descartes...

importance of Lightner Witmer, considered to be the first patient of psychological treatment. As the discipline continued forward...

They are, instead, robot-like in that they do what they are told and do not question the validity of the teachings. Instead, peopl...

it, these are all abstractions on the concept of the apple in the first place. These notions could not be made without the immedi...

occurred. One of the only things that one can find to argue about Locke is that he eventually becomes as inflexible as the rest o...

think, therefore I am" (Frost 2550. From this Descartes reasoned a body of ideas that he did not believe could be disputed, as th...

upon life are not likely to be duplicated in the near future. Indeed, the praise for such progression during these two periods ca...

their Doubts, and to confirm them at last in a perfect Skepticism" (47). Locke...

until midmorning began as a result of his ill health (Gaukroger, 1997). The education he received here, which lasted until 1612 se...

Therefore, realities for these individuals would logically be at a variance. Francis Bacon, considered the father of modern scie...

do not assert any observation sentences (Yancy, 1995). And in fact, science and philosophy truly have a lot in common. Both scient...

philosophy" was intent on raising philosophical debate above the aesthetic and theological interests which had held it captive for...

his own observation and experience" (Hume). In other words, an old dog, due to his experience, knows the rabbit will double back. ...

what is not. Descartes method of systematic doubt is to "reject as if absolutely false anything as to which I could imagine t...

through a consensual process, each member of the team feels that they had an input into the decision, whereas the process of votin...

In five pages psychology and the foundations laid by philosophy are examined in a discussion of Herodotus, Socrates, Aquinas, Lock...

and space-- the factual historical figure and the imaginary Eastern mystic. Descartes criticism of Siddhartha One can imagine t...

considering them in De homine, and proposing that there was some kind of interaction between the two, Descartes provided a more cl...

able to determine their own choices, rather than be automatically programmed for response. The student might surmise that o...

In six pages Descartes' knowledge philosophy is examined in terms of dreams and reality as it pertains to the principles he outlin...