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A Fictitious Discussion Between Hobbes and Kant

of his own life; and consequently, of doing anything which, in his own judgement and reason, he shall conceive to be the aptest me...

Anselm, Aquinas, Descartes/Existence of God

conclusion that "a being than which none greater can be conceived can be conceived to be greater than it is," which is "absurd" (A...

Ethics: Utilitarianism

the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation" (Jeremy Bentham, 2006). This simple co...

Heidegger & Nihilism

is the ability of human beings to question that is at the foundation of human nature. As this suggests, for Heidegger, Being is th...

The Influence of the Cave Allegory

distance. In some way one can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees ...

Ideas about Peace and War

theories abound, and this idea actually seemingly did spark speculation about other black leaders deaths, it seems that at the ver...

Transitions During the Enlightenment Period

secular tone ("The Enlightenment," 2006). The eighteenth century would begin the Age of Reason where there was intellectual discov...

Hume's Ideas about the Distinct and Continued Existence of Objects

it is also the case that in general terms, people seem to believe what they see. They do not see atoms and they do see a solid mas...

Aristotle, Mill and Anakin Skywalker

the same way it does to other phenomena is related to the freedom of the will, a controversy that is still unsettled (Mill, 2003)....

Nietzsche And Kierkegaard: Compare/Contrast

- while a religious man himself - strongly believed to reflect mankinds futile passion toward Gods plan and the failure to realize...

Can Free Will And Determinism Coexist?

life progresses and is, therefore, under the guidance of peripheral forces. Rachel (2004) asserts mankinds business on eart...

The Purpose of Life and Personal Fulfillment

didnt have a term equal to "evolution," several of them deduced that things originated in other things; for instance "Thales asser...

FIDES ET RATIO

understanding of truth and communicating the truth of the Gospel to those who do not yet know it" (Pope John Paul II, Introduction...

Descartes vs. Russon

Descartes, of course, is remembered as the "father of modern philosophy". A rationalist, Descartes was particularly concerned wit...

Essay on Auguste Comte

equality reversed and he no longer supported the cause of "economic and moral independence" for women in his later years, but rath...

The Idea Of Love Between Nietzsche And Freud

compels one to draw all attention to this one object - to the preclusion of all else, which is most often intrinsically associated...

Buddha: Buddhism and Hinduism

the fact that "The Buddhists consider the world to be full of sorrow and regard ending the sorrow as the chief aim of human life" ...

Faith and Reason in the Thinking of Thomas Aquinas and Dante Alighieri

be an object of science. To this question, Aquinas answers "no." First of all, following the medieval style of reasoning, he posit...

3 Questions on Philosophical Thought and its Effects

like the male philosophers of the day. She was the exception. While by and large, the people saw women as having a subservient pla...

Induction Problem and David Hume

Hume was often at odds with other philosophers when it came to his personal perception of human nature and the ways of life....

A Review of The Presocratic Reader

Before Socrates, this characteristic was missing, and the addition of it is so striking that it sets Socrates apart from the philo...

Philosophical Similarities of Aristotle, Plato, and Socrates

(Saxonhouse, 1998). This is something thought not to lead to violence, but rather to a profound gentleness (Saxonhouse, 1998). In ...

Rene Descartes and Thomas Aquinas on the Body and Mind

the body dies (Island of Freedom, 2003). Although Descartes saw the mind and body as two separate substances and also having diff...

Absolute Sovereign Power According to Thomas Hobbes

as this being the basis of the way than man will then behave as a result of the toughs Hobbes attention turns to human nature. C...

Utilitarianism and Morality According to John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant

but when exampled it becomes clear. For instance, one ought to respect human life. If one respects the life of another, then they ...

Philosophical and Scientific Role of Rene Descartes

critics, his reputation and fame has never been truly compromised. He has added a great deal in terms of thought in a variety of d...

Memory Role and Personal Identity

Loftus report that visitors to Disneyland had come to the conclusion that they met Bugs Bunny, but the rabbit is actually a Warner...

Should Health Care Be Considered a Right in the U.S.?

discussion. It is a way to present his theory on justice and what is right and wrong. Rawls view is basically that any rational h...

'Good Life' and the Philosophies of Albert Camus, Rene Descartes, and Plato

"I easily understand that, if some body exists, with which my mind is so conjoined and united as to be able, as it were, to consid...

Saint Thomas Aquinas and Socrates

teaching, in which he pretended not to know the answers to questions, so that students would come to understanding on their own. ...