Essays 331 - 360
human understanding. He saw the concept as being equated with something that exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transce...
like the male philosophers of the day. She was the exception. While by and large, the people saw women as having a subservient pla...
the street ... must and will reflect our personal moral standards" (Reavley, 2001). Those moral standards, Reavley implies, must ...
of science there are two branches which are epistemology and metaphysics (Honderich, 1995). Science makes up an important part of ...
In five pages this paper examines the Bourdieu and Kant philosophical views represented in these texts by Barker and Du Maurier. ...
commandment "thou shalt not kill", for example, are forced to re-examine their views in the light of military service in wartime, ...
the standards movement. This "default" philosophy emerges from a behaviorist, positivists background that places great emphasis...
of the world (1993). Yet, one can see this in action in smaller ways. Another way to look at the world is through the model called...
childhood, during his early life, Socrates was a sculptor, following in the footsteps of his father, Sophroniscus (Wikpedia, 2003)...
in Modern Thought points to two cataclysmic moments in history that were responsible for altering the contemporary perceptions of ...
Hume presented his arguments in a pair of treatises that are still considered required reading for any student of Western philosop...
life fulfillment and that a disabled individual should be allowed to die because their quality of life will not allow them to find...
it, these are all abstractions on the concept of the apple in the first place. These notions could not be made without the immedi...
horrible situations such as one that would deem them a "vegetable" do have some thinking capacity perhaps. Yet, is a disembodied m...
conditions and development; contrarily, humanity may also perceive the world as a more direct understanding based upon their spiri...
contradictory, which is why he is so controversial. One can take the meaning of Mills writings to suggest that individuality rules...
the time, today people are faced with decisions and can decide to be honest or face dire consequences. Journalists today sometimes...
also be allowed to have their own private property. In Aristotles belief, man is inherently born sinful. Because of this ...
who could argue with that idea? Of course, capital punishment is an ongoing debate and one that has been around for centuries. Als...
course of action is often jumbled. Is the patient cognizant enough to make the correct choices? Many issues come into play when a...
the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...
Essentially, the allegory likens those who remain unaware of forms to prisoners chained in a cave, and they cannot turn their head...
consider that if an entity, such as a nation, is to grow and become prosperous there will be enemies and as such perhaps war is es...
avoids trying to force the same concept of right and wrong upon all of the worlds societies, objectivism believes there is conside...
education, Aquinas was exposed to the work of the ancient Greek philosophers. Throughout his writing , Aquinas worked out a relati...
the only way to arrive at this point, he seems to be saying, is to carefully examine anything that one believes with the yardstick...
doubt and thought. If he thinks, then he exists: at least, his mind exists, since what he knows of his body is dependent, again, o...
This is found in Descartes work Meditations and is referred to as substance dualism, which is also known as Cartesian interactioni...
well as] hard physical work and unhealthy lifestyle" and most donors are sent home after only five days (Tomiuc, 2003). While the ...
defines pornography, which is that they do not know what it is, but they know it when they see it (11). Similarly, it is not out o...