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Essays 691 - 720
highest truth and certainty I have learned either from the senses or through the senses" (Descartes 29). But he is quick to note ...
speaker is Philo, a religious skeptic (Johnson 266). The discussion is chiefly between Philo and Cleanthes, with occasional remar...
of veracity. This is because each segment of humanity is its own little universe and what is held to be truth in one section of th...
trade. Barbaric pursuits held no interest, and the Chinese certainly knew their medicine and culture were vastly superior. ...
the realm of reality as researchers in the United Kingdom produced a cloned sheep and others at the University of Tennessee cloned...
There are many easily-identifiable situations in which an individual may have intention to act but cannot follow through with the ...
support for the notion that people must obey the laws of the place in which they are born. How is this accomplished? Aristotle d...
our manner of interaction with the world, ourselves, and others. Our perceptual capacities are not fixed; they are not static or ...
of subjective satisfaction (Seifert, 2003). Moral goodness just is. One looks at a baby or a puppy and thinks that these living th...
the text should fit the music, not the other way around. His opera, La Nozza de Figaro, while following the parameters of the comi...
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...
to shake off these social controls and become the master rather than the slave. This, he argues, is the true justice of nature: la...
is characterized in a particular way; Sartre argues that "conflict is the original meaning of being-for- others." (Baron, 2002, PG...
of the group. Some groups, as in organization, are sometimes referred to as parties, Weber seems to state. Mostly, parties aim fo...
The problem with meaning as it relates to Kantian duty is attempting to successfully pinpoint a single yet comprehensive connotati...
of the Catholic Church. MacIntyre introduces his principal thesis in Whose Justice? Which Rationality? by pointing out that form...
state of the art technology. Their lives will be saved above the others. It is somewhat like the scenario when the Titanic went do...
particularly when a known controversial figure assisted the act? What happened was that Thomas Youk was given a lethal injectio...
what Descartes believed to be the existence of humanity and humanitys understanding of what knowledge truly is. In a comparison of...
Sisyphus himself perceives his condition....
as action vs. inaction, doer vs. writer and philosopher, and primitivism vs. modernism. The erudite English narrator of Zorba the...
not just, but rapacious (1998). It is instead a theater of adaptive and predatory deception (1998). One can clearly see that Thras...
Barbour, time is merely an illusion (Anonymous, 2000). In his ruminations on time, Augustine contemplates the subjectivity of tim...
In five pages this paper examines pessimism and whether or not optimism exists in this philosophical consideration of Voltaire, Sc...
Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...
He and a group of utilitarians formed a small Utilitarian Society based on many of the writings of Bentham. His many works appeare...
the fetus. Pro-choice individuals often argue that the fetus is nothing more than a part of the womans body, with no more signific...
that when things were fully developed, and had naturally reached their conclusion - or ending - they were simply following their n...
anti-discrimination legal issues and laws, equal rights protection, and the newer "discipline" of modern and critical race theory....