Essays 301 - 330
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...
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...
is anguish all the time, but there is also a sense of joy at the realization that one is inextricably bound with another. This sen...
himself, without mischief reaching at least to his near connexions, and often far beyond them"(Mills,9). John Stuart Mill seemed ...
are the natural order of things. Are there coincidences, or do no coincidences exist? Much again, has to do with how a person perc...
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...
the street ... must and will reflect our personal moral standards" (Reavley, 2001). Those moral standards, Reavley implies, must ...
exactly? Wikipedia defines it as follows: " Extortion is a criminal offense, which occurs when a person obtains money, behaviour, ...
steeled and a heart trans- formed into brass, so as to bear the weight of such responsibility" (Nietzsche, p.129). One can see tha...
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...
obviously see elements of the man who wrote the story, for Kafka is often considered to be an individual who deeply examined his w...
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...
holds that terms such as "good" and "right" are defined on the basis of which behavior provides the greatest benefit to the larges...