Essays 271 - 300
to attain a better existence for itself, it has inadvertently caused a domino effect when it comes to such personal pursuits. It ...
Brian Vickers portrays Plato as an intellectual Odysseus, stealthily stealing the rhetorical arsenal of the sophists and using it ...
He didnt believe that going to church necessarily related to a relationship with God. He felt that church almost got in the way o...
the buying and selling of human beings. How would a Kantian analyze the ethics of slavery? How might a utilitarian, a social con...
well-being but our physical well-being also. For instance, Terry (54) tells us that music has been widely recommended as a techni...
This paper explores the ways the ancient views of religion changed in response to the philosophical schools. There are three sour...
Many contend that while God is all good, man has free will and brings the suffering on himself. At the same time, animals cannot r...
not merely things to be used to reach ones goal, but are sentient beings with worth beyond measure. The golden rule may be interp...
the idea that there are reasons for implementing law beyond the idea of just maintaining law and order. Other supporters of positi...
was changing in terms of philosophy. John Lockes The Second Treatise of Civil Government is rather compelling and in fact, free ch...
personal desire to do so, rather than depending upon automatic reaction or stimulation. "The skeptic, therefore, had better keep ...
Sisyphus himself perceives his condition....
Theravada Buddhism was the original form, which was based on lengthy meditation and required...
one looks at a variety of lifetimes via reincarnation, its purpose explained by knowledge. In other words, people are born and liv...
tendencies within society and the fact that people are far too concerned with their own well being to fend for those who cannot fe...
and Cavaliers differ somewhat from those that are associated with Europe. What we most often remember in America is the differenc...
there is continuity through time in terms of personal identity and her doubt about her own continuing identity is contradicted by...
exist myriad philosophies by which people live their lives, which help maintain order and a sense of direction that otherwise woul...
II. Facts of the Case The case in question was presented to Lord Justice Ward, Lord Justice Brooke and Lord Justice Robert Wal...
lie to the police, and fabricate "evidence," in order to protect her daughter from possible harm? Or, should she allow her daughte...
past times are given (or as he put it more cautiously, "presupposed") in the present time. It is possible, according to Kant, tha...
and the imagination. However, he states that gaining an idea of self from the presentation given by the senses initially cannot re...
have anticipated the degradation that would take place toward the trees, grass and animals, all of whom are just as integral to th...
strive for bigger and better opportunities, to reach beyond what has become comfortable and consistent in order to attain that whi...
being" (Burnham, 2001). In order for our universe to have taken on the form that it has, it has been necessary, according t...
does not love and who is better than twenty years older than her. Then, his son goes into the future son-in-laws bank and manages ...
(Amin, 1997; p. 8). In many ways we experience, and have experienced, growth of cultures through diversity, which provides us ...
simple to Descartes, so simple it needs no argument. He basically says that as long as one is thinking, one exists. To Descartes, ...
While Hume appears down to Earth and logical, he is, in a very general sense, a skeptic. He notes that there is a battle between r...
prisoners there is a raised way; and you will see, if you look, a low wall built along the way, like the screen which marionette p...