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Ideologies of Machiavelli, Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle on Democratic Rule

of the United States. Without the philosophies of those that lived in the centuries prior to the U.S. Declaration of Independence...

Opposite Characters Zorba and the Narrator in Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis The Antithetical Characters, the Narrator and Zorba in ' “Zorba the Greek”

as action vs. inaction, doer vs. writer and philosopher, and primitivism vs. modernism. The erudite English narrator of Zorba the...

Mad Love by Andre Breton

Mad Love, Breton attempts to accomplish the impossible - to textually recreate the basic emotions of passion and desire, which mov...

Justo L. Gonzalez and Soren Kierkegaard Compared

his or her own singular importance. "The ethical is the universal, and as such it is again the divine. One has therefore a right ...

Views by Plato and Socrates That No One Knowingly Commits Wrong

the amount of knowledge that anyone has very little to do with doing things that are wrong. Now, understandably, we can see wher...

Human Rights and How They Have Evolved

may appear as a primary concept, it has been met with great hostility, with critics contending that dialogue apart from justice is...

Truth According to David Hume, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Aristotle

discover) the truth or falsity of propositions about past and present events, propositions about the future seem problematic. If a...

Law and Karl Marx's Economic Interpretation

states that the liberal view of law includes a wealth maximization which can be said to embrace normative economic theory than Mar...

Hume and Descartes

human senses can be mislead. This is seen when there are individuals close and far away, with the difference in size seen by the e...

Parmenides Dialogue by Plato

that can be grasped with the human mind, but not with human senses (Gill, 1996,p. 1). The first part of the Parmenides, Plato has...

Marx, Machiavelli, and Hobbes

that man must first display characteristics that are shaped by his own masculine perspective. Machiavelli considered the nature o...

Philosophy and Ten Questions

This paper consists of 12 pages and concerns asking famous philosophers such as George Berkeley, Rene Descartes, John Wisdom, Davi...

John Stuart Mill, Jean Jacques Rousseau, and Thomas Hobbes

In six pages this research paper examines religion and the state as viewed by philosophers Mill, Rousseau, and Hobbes. Three sour...

Problemata I of Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard

In five pages Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard's solution to Problemata I featured in his text Fear and Trembling is discussed...

Identity Perception and Thought According to Thomas Reid and John Locke

identity in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Section 9 Book II, Chapter XXVII). Yet, Locke gathered his ideas from talkin...

Individualism, Society, and Political Ideology According to Alexis de Tocqueville, Edmund Burke, and Jean Jacques Rousseau

In six pages this paper examines how individualism, society, and political ideology are perceived by this trio of sociopolitical p...

Test of Intelligence by Alan Turing

The beliefs of Rene Descartes and other humanist philosophers are considered within the context of Turing's argument that a comput...

Dialogue Between Aristotle, Plato, and Socrates on Virtue and Vice in Daily Life

In five pages this paper examines a hypothetical contemporary dialogue between these 3 philosophers on how daily life features vir...

Racism and David Hume

In five pages the argument that Scottish philosopher David Hume was a racist is considered. Four sources are cited in the bibliog...

Connection Between Politics and Art in the Philosophies of Walter Benjamin and Martin Heidegger

particular essay, we are told that, "art lets truth originate." According to Kiefte (1997), what Heidegger is wondering about is...

Language and Myth by Ernst Cassirer

Language (1946) According to Cassirer, "myth, art, language and science appear as symbols. . . in the sense of forces, each of wh...

Basic Element Ideologies of Philosophy

and Anaximenes (Is Philosophy Possible?). However, there were a great many others who contributed to the mainstream of postulate...

Philosophy and Business Ethics

In five pages business ethics are examined through applications of theories by philosophers David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and John St...

God According to Jean Paul Sartre, Immanuel Kant, and Rene Descartes

In six pages this research paper and essay considers how God's existence or lack thereof was argued by these three philosophers. ...

Ethics and Aristotle

The ethical theory of Aristotle is examined in this combination essay and research paper that consists of seven pages and includes...

David Hume, Atheism, and Immorality

This paper written in a letter style consists of five pages and examines the contention that David Hum was an atheist and then con...

Justice, Morality, and the Soul According to Plato

In twelve pages Plato's dialogues The Republic, Phaedrus, and Gorgias are examined in an analysis of how the philosopher conceptua...

Lying According to J.S. Mill

that lying is not only necessary in some circumstances, but one may go beyond the few exceptions and see good in the lie. It is ce...

Plato's Life and Philosophical Dialogues

in the Peloponnesian War, which ended in a resounding defeat for Athens in 404 B.C. (Levinson ix-x). While it can be assumed that...

Liberty and Truth According to the Concepts of John Stuart Mill

be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others" (Mill PG). Thus,...