Essays 421 - 450
of the same) is "reason" rather than the self-conscious "I." One may then extend the concept from ethical ideas to morality, whic...
lying promise is something that is said in order to achieve a favorable outcome. What if someone has a gun to the victims childs h...
when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." And, for 20th century Catholic theologian Josef Pieper (1904-97), Gods role in...
the old mans money to the poor. While he fears being found out, when he is, the people not only forgive him, but elect him their n...
(2000) presents his argument, his thesis, in stating that "I want to raise and examine the possibility that, however much we came ...
Power is behind all that we perceive, then the Higher Power would be a deceitful one. Descartes arrives at this conclusion becaus...
being destroyed, ironically enough, by the very systems designed to preserve them. In his book, he manages to leave no one in th...
mans capacity for creating deceptive notions with his Idols of the Tribe, which he attributes as being applicable only to the huma...
disappeared in the 1960s when the premise was that cops in cars could respond more quickly to an emergency than a police officer o...
number of indispensable approaches, however, Froebels (1826) approach made the initial connection between creativity and cognition...
defined either narrowly or quite expansively (Rathbun, 2008). Our historic focus on isolationism has for the most part been based...
grow at their own pace. While they - as a group -- share many developmental aspects, children cannot be consolidated as a single ...
an ED, in general, nursing interaction focuses on individuals, as the point of the emergency service is to stabilize patients in ...
the world, but only derive essence later. In other words, a human is nothing to start with, and the essence of the person comes fr...
Forrests mother has been able to instill a quiet sense of self worth in Forrest. Despite what anyone says to him, Forrest knows wh...
highest truth and certainty I have learned either from the senses or through the senses" (Descartes 29). But he is quick to note ...
cosmic forces: they comprise the primal and universal psychic energy yet are overlooked * We have to treat our "self" with gentlen...
the significance and importance of relationship and affectivity as learners construct new knowledge (Tisdell and Taylor, 1999, p. ...
manner in order to attain end-E" (Honderich, 1995, p. 436). For example, a person might resolve to pay a bill as soon as it is rec...
of veracity. This is because each segment of humanity is its own little universe and what is held to be truth in one section of th...
constructed and the meaning made perfectly clear so that all understand what types of behavior will be tolerated and which will no...
When he finally gets the ice cream, he is happy. So was this an example of the past, the present and the future? Not necessarily...
for example, would exist even if there were no human beings there to see it, but not that colour was an independent spiritual form...
in his own personal progress at the cost of everything else. He was wholly supportive of the scientific community during the Enli...
work on the dual nature of man, which puts him firmly in the camp of philosophers. But he also had a tremendous influence on psych...
existence. Thus, he sees himself as something more than a victim. He simply has a less desirable fate than some of his peers. Yet,...
until midmorning began as a result of his ill health (Gaukroger, 1997). The education he received here, which lasted until 1612 se...
Therefore, realities for these individuals would logically be at a variance. Francis Bacon, considered the father of modern scie...
a mirror which no stone can crack, whose quicksilver will never wear off, whose gilding Nature continually repairs" (Thoreau 188)....
permission. Abraham Lincoln promoted the Platonic view in his Gettysburg Address in saying that the government should be "of the ...