Essays 631 - 660
as action vs. inaction, doer vs. writer and philosopher, and primitivism vs. modernism. The erudite English narrator of Zorba the...
As far as al-Ghazali was concerned, "God can do anything he wants, he can punish virtuous people and reward the wicked, he is unde...
In five pages a philosophical explanation of world events is attempted and the Pakistani position following the World Trade Center...
Barbour, time is merely an illusion (Anonymous, 2000). In his ruminations on time, Augustine contemplates the subjectivity of tim...
In five pages this paper examines pessimism and whether or not optimism exists in this philosophical consideration of Voltaire, Sc...
This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...
achieve this level of human excellence by adhering to the fourteen axioms acts of Nicomachean Ethics, which included gentility, ho...
the topic of education. He says, "Next, said I, compare our nature in respect of education and its lack to such an experience as t...
it will occur; which leads to the Conclusion: "no action is free" (Cahn, 1971, 39). Hard determinism argues that these two premi...
in order to establish a firm foundation of understanding in his or her life. In knowledge there is inherent value and wealth; dwe...
what he actually did. At the same time, it is not as if this philosopher threw out the basic tenets of reasoning. He did find it n...
who will eventually hold office and decide what to pursue in respect to issues like abortion, stem cell research and capital punis...
human being for a short span of time. The cave allegory is quite well known and has been used by many to interpret Platos philosop...
as business practices, documentation systems, process flows and lines of communication can differ (Blevins, 2001) Home health nur...
the layers are slowly and systematically peeled away, revealing increasingly more of the personality of the individual (Williams, ...
importance and children were to be guarded from superfluous information to come from for example poetry and literature. Rather, th...
the face of it, to go against the utilitarian principle of the "greatest good of the greatest number", taking a more long-term vie...
difference plays a part in substance use and abuse. In other words, females are more inclined to be judged by their peers and pare...
the relationship of power structures (McGregor and Murnane, 2010). It is also an approach which is assumed to incorporate values a...
contrast, lacks a culture that is belligerently opposed to institutional transparency, but instead engages in a more traditionally...
the most heavily debated political and ideological programs in the history of the world. Established by Mao Tse-Tung as a reaction...
way of the World explains what a Junzi does when it comes to the dealings of this world Applying the third of Confucius philosop...
ethical, philosophical, and moral issues that characterize the one delivery mechanism also characterize the other. A particular c...
the meditations is not to prove what they establish, but rather to show how the world of physics could be mapped reliably and inde...
the Summa that "St. Thomas, following Aristotle, gives a perfect description and a wonderfully keen analysis of the movements of m...
in order to protect society. Mill does advocate freedom to a great extent, but not to the extent that it hurts other members of th...
and that is that it enables both freedom and necessity to coexist; it favors an ethical reliance on moral deterrence without brini...
the "moral" issues which have been registered in regards to two or more human sharing the same genetic code (DNA). This cannot pro...
to shake off these social controls and become the master rather than the slave. This, he argues, is the true justice of nature: la...
In five pages society's incorporation of religion is discussed in terms of several philosophical views that include mainstream rel...