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In ten pages this research paper discusses the philosophical arguments of Jean Paul Sartre, William James, Michel de Montaigne, Th...
actions would have been sanctioned by law forty years ago, the consensus of society at today is that this sort of discrimination i...
greedy for gain" (Machiavelli 56). Men, Machiavelli argued, were by nature more interested in their own good than in achieving th...
story has on an impressionable young mind. What did Isaac think and feel at the time? What must he have thought when he was bound ...
moderation. We can see this as he puts those people in the first stages of hell, which had been neutral -nothing good-nothing bad...
In four pages this paper presents an autobiography of Saint Augustine and also considers his arguments on the existence of God....
not be found unless it were in ones memory. Chapter XIX tells what it is to remember. In Augustines...
derives from the fact that it seems as if it had a familiar or conventional meaning. One might be tempted to try a nonliteral int...
conclusion that "a being than which none greater can be conceived can be conceived to be greater than it is," which is "absurd" (A...
John Stuart Mill presented his take on the law in On Liberty. This paper contrasts his view with Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics an...
Dominican Order)," dedicating his life to following his Orders commitment to both scholarship and ministry (Honderich, et al 43). ...
(Mabinogion, p. 79). The Mabinogion chronicles do not seem to have been widely circulated outside of Wales, probably because of t...
as the support of civilised and social community. He stated he did not believe that law should be based on any moral codes, in thi...
or supports the individual personality is just; anything disrespectful or degrading is unjust (274). Himself a contempora...
those who would do evil. Augustine couched his ideas on government within his concept of two cities, an earthly city and a city o...
he could grasp with his own intellect, what he could actually perceive by his own senses, and what a trustworthy person told him. ...
born a Jew and lived under the Jewish law and system (Galatians 4:4). * Jesus life was characterized by service and humility (Phil...
like the male philosophers of the day. She was the exception. While by and large, the people saw women as having a subservient pla...
Christ. The polytheistic society of ancient Greece was already moving toward belief in a single god by the time of Plato and his ...
if Charity is "something created in the soul" (Aquinas 17). Without background knowledge on this debate, his points become somewha...
The Dominicans were like the Franciscans in that they were a mendicant order wherein the friars "vowed to live faithfully in pover...
from the Appearances of Nature (Beebe, 2002). In this text, Paley wrote: There cannot be design without a designer; contrivance wi...
"the cauldron of competing doctrines which swirled at the heart of the early church...All medieval philosophers drew on his work, ...
goodness and evil. They are the opposite ends of a pendulum. If God existed there would be no observable evil. Since we know there...
This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...
principle being expressed is that everything which causes change, or gives rise to existence, must be the result of some predecess...
truth that transcends the traditional means of understanding or knowing. For Aquinas, reason does have limitations. He writes: "N...
In eighteen pages this paper examines how St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine of Hippo developed the 'just war' concept and theor...
In eight pages this research paper considers philosophical perspectives regarding God's existence and includes David Hume's opposi...
In twenty pages this research paper considers philosophical arguments pertaining to God's existence as argued in support and in op...