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that she was much more responsive and seemed to be improving. Still not fully conscious, at times she would be able to "communica...

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

of subjective satisfaction (Seifert, 2003). Moral goodness just is. One looks at a baby or a puppy and thinks that these living th...

In eight pages this paper examines Socrates' philosophical views on self examination and the importance of motivation within the i...

and that is that it enables both freedom and necessity to coexist; it favors an ethical reliance on moral deterrence without brini...

the "moral" issues which have been registered in regards to two or more human sharing the same genetic code (DNA). This cannot pro...

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

to shake off these social controls and become the master rather than the slave. This, he argues, is the true justice of nature: la...

other words, lets say that someone came along and said that the sky was falling and that it was a miracle! Basically what Hume is...

dilemma of a single woman who is part of what the politicians and social scientists refer to as a member of the "working poor" soc...

the Summa that "St. Thomas, following Aristotle, gives a perfect description and a wonderfully keen analysis of the movements of m...

in order to protect society. Mill does advocate freedom to a great extent, but not to the extent that it hurts other members of th...

once again began drawing air into his lungs illustrates how this is not necessarily a definitive component of being dead. As such...

the meditations is not to prove what they establish, but rather to show how the world of physics could be mapped reliably and inde...

(Saxonhouse, 1998). This is something thought not to lead to violence, but rather to a profound gentleness (Saxonhouse, 1998). In ...

persuasive arguments, Aristotle mentions three techniques: pathos, ethos and logos (What is logos?) "Pathos" (from which we get th...

expected to develop some form of cancer "or another rapidly debilitating condition and well be dead within a year of getting the d...

culpable. It is true that many other nations, such as France, opposed the war effort in Iraq. Did the U.S. overstep its bounds? Wh...

the role it plays, in the cognitive system of which it is a part (Levin, 2004). Functionalism is an opinion about the nature of m...

he defends himself well, Socrates is still found guilty and stoically accepts his fate, indicating that since only the gods are aw...

to break up that civilization into smaller units. The point being, love is doomed because society requires multiple, sanitized re...

interaction with the world, ourselves, and others. Our perceptual capacities are not fixed; they are not static or one-dimensiona...

a prison takeover (Burke, 1995). Though unusual, if something like that were to happen, officials would be at an extreme disadvant...

"the agent ought to promote the self above other values" (Moseley, 2006). This is not as ugly as it sounds: it goes all the way ba...

in his account when he passed away. The email provider Yahoo claimed that due to a terms of service agreement, they could not allo...

by the theory of monism (Turner). The greatest strength of monism appears to be its simplicity: it admits of only one underlying c...

long and interesting historical evolution, and its origins are largely responsible for the reluctance of allopathic medical profes...

Of all the claims that lack evidence, none are as morally immense or elusive as whether or not God exists. Supporters contend the...

philosophers and playwrights, addressed themselves to the reality of the absurdity of life and argued that that its reality should...

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