Essays 781 - 810
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the philosophies of Thomas Paine and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Three sources are cited...
Theravada Buddhism was the original form, which was based on lengthy meditation and required...
and the construction company wants to get on with their job of building whatever. Henry David Thoreau, in Walden Pond, written i...
In five pages this paper discusses how the U.S. Civil War was the result of competing philosophies of states rights vs. a centrali...
theory is brought forth numerous times throughout Aristotles well-read and well-quoted Nichomachean Ethics. Aristotles vie...
philosophical thought begs to differ. In the pre-Plato period, for example, the prevailing belief was that pleasure was immediate ...
of his better known works "The Social Contract", he discusses issues involved in radical or republican thought regarding the human...
hospital quite naturally is concerned about the cost of continuing to provide care for Andrew, but it can be assured that there is...
see the usefulness of your food donation, insofar as eating food will improve his health." And there is still yet another agreeabl...
This research paper examines Kant's philosophy of transcendental deduction, with a specific focus on the transcendental unity of a...
Woody Guthries and Henry Fondas careers, and many current land- and water-use policies in the western United States. Ideas, even b...
were distinguished in the nineteenth century with the "natural" sciences. To a great degree, James was attempting to create and/...
that the object of thought is capable of being. Hume understands that, quite simplistically, the soul is simply . . . the soul. ...
gave the commencement speech at his daughters graduation from Radcliffe, he concisely summed up the essence of what he found to be...
for existence in which the fittest members of a varying population survive, reproduce, and pass on their traits to the next genera...
However, Allen also makes the point that Platos attitude was at least partially due to his respect and fear of the powers of art o...
the mind" then "no physical thing exists outside the mind" (McGreal 252). Third, primary qualities such as solidity, extension, sh...
address the problems of individualism in our contemporary society. While Wests "Race Matters" makes a frontal attack on these pro...
arguments these days is that one would not want a physician operating on one when the physician is using marijuana on his off hour...
the work goes on to Part II and is headed Metaphysical first principles of the doctrine of virtue. This is also further subdivided...
between the patient and physician (technology, caring and values) are always present but may differ in balance. In addition, the r...
cause of the effect must possess as much reality as the effect. Furthermore, Descartes asserts that any cause must have as much p...
challenged mankinds very conscience. He retreated to Walden Pond in order to refresh his own character and to effectively remove ...
the effects of "Original Sin" (Hundersmarck 133). While Machiavelli agreed with this stance, he did not do so because of theology....
that the morality of choice is based on the greater good. The saying, "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" arise...
and non-rational elements. Of the non-rational, the autonomic responses (breathing, sleeping, digesting, and reproducing) is commo...
In the context of a greater philosophy perhaps, a philosopher says what he thinks. Yet, he is unwittingly part of a grand plan. Wh...
that created a chasm between the haves and the "have nots." With people working for the government, and each getting an equal stip...
to is none other than that of the Romantic period. The person who considered himself a romantic, too, would question some of life...
(2002) argument is based on his experiences as first a federal prosecutor, then a trial judge, and finally a California Superior C...