Essays 451 - 480
that is good. The sun is going down, and it is cold, so that is bad. Evil is something much worse than bad. Obviously, a setting s...
is good (Frost 84). For Socrates, "a life which is always inquiring and trying to discover what is good is the best kind of life, ...
of that century, the French philosopher, Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) developed his metaphysical theories known as "occasionali...
identifies Schopenhauers most distinctive contribution to philosophy as his "insistence that Will is more basic than thought to bo...
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...
Stuart Mill (1806-1873) Mill.htm). An advocate of this particular perspective, "Popper thought that both Mill and Comte were wrong...
by Eastern religions. A "Master" discerns the attainment of religious enlightenment in his novices according to how a novice beh...
Camus relates the substance of the Greek myth and how Sisyphus was condemned to endlessly roll a rock up a hill in the underworld,...
contributions to ethical and social theory" (Anonymous John Stuart Mill 1806-1873, 2002; MILL.HTM). In his work "Principles of ...
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...
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...
In five pages the sense of wonder Descartes conjures in his Third Meditation regarding the existence of God is examined. There ar...
This 7 page paper explores three different philosophical concents: the design theory, Kant's theories of knowledge and Plato's ide...
This paper applies existentialism to an analysis of the character Jack in the Titanic film by director James Cameron in 5 pages. ...
particular essay, we are told that, "art lets truth originate." According to Kiefte (1997), what Heidegger is wondering about is...
Merce Cunningham's life and dance philosophy that radically innovated dance to an evocative postmodernist expression are discussed...
This paper examines the philosophies of Aristotle as seen in the Nicomachean Ethics, and the views of C.S. Lewis in his work, The ...
In five pages this essay compares and contrasts Immanuel Kant's 18th century moral philosophy with that of John Stuart Mill's 19th...
and the things within it as mere shadows or reflections of a separate world of independently existing, eternal, and unchanging ent...
In six pages this paper examines how knowledge theories are philosophically conceptualized by Kant, Hume, Spinoza, and Descartes. ...
In five pages Buddhism is examined both in terms of philosophy and its ethical content. Three sources are cited in the bibliograp...
In six pages this paper discusses some student posed questions on philosophy and theology with science and natural harmony conside...