Essays 781 - 810
saying the above statement. The names change and the nature of the addiction changes with the substance, but the goal and reward ...
the post-Civil War period, which was one of unprecedented patronage for the arts from government and private sources, produced wor...
but in those areas where the student was lagging a remediation course was offered in-house for the student. This seems logical, si...
strive for bigger and better opportunities, to reach beyond what has become comfortable and consistent in order to attain that whi...
philosophy" was intent on raising philosophical debate above the aesthetic and theological interests which had held it captive for...
He sought not to try to make people feel any better about themselves or the world in which they lived aside from empowering them t...
on actions, then the argument would end there. Utilitarianism, therefore, is their effect on society and the world at large. Actio...
If we accept the premise, therefore, that science is capable of defining physiological death then we must ask ourselves how do we ...
the reader into the oppressive world of slavery. Indeed, it was the authors desire to bring attention to the injustices faced by ...
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...
of that century, the French philosopher, Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) developed his metaphysical theories known as "occasionali...
Stuart Mill (1806-1873) Mill.htm). An advocate of this particular perspective, "Popper thought that both Mill and Comte were wrong...
Camus relates the substance of the Greek myth and how Sisyphus was condemned to endlessly roll a rock up a hill in the underworld,...
by Eastern religions. A "Master" discerns the attainment of religious enlightenment in his novices according to how a novice beh...
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...
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...
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...
thought that the Theory of Forms was useless when it came to explaining the material world "because the connection between the two...
the teacher would be naturally drawn to the Socratic method of instruction, which relies on the teacher attempting to bring forth ...
made to render the greatest happiness for the greatest number. That is all that utilitarianism is equated with. There are differen...
belief, but at the "priests and their stupid or hypocritical instruments . . we shall think of them only to pity their victims and...
what one wants, and visualizing it, that one will eventually be free from the gnawing desire. This is true either through attainme...
been warriors but are now too docile for their own survival. Those who are poor are not poor because of the system, but are poor b...
This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...