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Essays 481 - 510
the normal way of life. While in this schizophrenic society people eat animals, they also keep animals as pets, and so there is a ...
"by posing the question in terms of relation between thinking subject, deity, and external world, Descartes made a purely epistemo...
also be allowed to have their own private property. In Aristotles belief, man is inherently born sinful. Because of this ...
Customers expect a certain standard of service. If labour is cut here it may either be form the waiting staff. If there are less w...
Arguments for the Existence of God Rene Descartes (1596-1650) is known as one of the most influential Western philosophers today....
with a wholly different sort of argument. He states that if the universe has an intelligent designer (i.e., the cosmological argum...
Where the governmentally funded research companies are now stalled while the debate rages, privatized groups sponsored by large co...
bloodshed and terror of such despicable crimes comes the most obvious of questions: Why are kids killing each other? In an ideal ...
is a rather immense task that philosophers have been dealing with for quite some time. The fact that no one can know the answer f...
functions to accentuate the bodys passage through time. The inherent relationship that exists between self and the elements...
same right to humans devaluing human life to a level lower than that if animals. Whereas those against assisted suicide argue that...
to allow same sex marriages, the savings to the court system would be enormous and the separation of the assets and arrangements f...
he is perfectly sane when he says that he is going to act insane in order to get revenge upon Claudius (Hamlet - Insane or Not?). ...
and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child. But the Lor...
by allowing some evils to exist, it makes possible greater goods that cannot be obtained by any other route (Honderich, et al 255)...
is Anselms primary opponent in his argument regarding the existence of God. Kants separation between the analytic and the synthet...
peace in the Middle East has been the focus of world attention for generations. From a Palestinian perspective, however, this goa...
the absurdity of this answer. But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened to...
scope of evidence (Boyd, 1995). Using the ideas of argumentation, the director of security presented several facts in the memoran...
guessing his parents. An eight year old may argue that it is proper for him to go to a particular event by himself, but his parent...
this country after serving in Vietnam. What is even more tragic is that most of them never have recovered from the sights in Viet...
being antithetical to their interests, but rather looked upon government as an instrument for promoting and protecting the interes...
so on until that $250 is keeping everyone in business. The hoodlum who broke the window becomes an instrument of spreading busines...
speaker is Philo, a religious skeptic (Johnson 266). The discussion is chiefly between Philo and Cleanthes, with occasional remar...
classes in the State severally did their own business; and also thought to be temperate and valiant and wise by reason of certain ...
to that of Egoism which is based on the premise that mans concern with his own good is the basis of mans morality. Sidgwick in his...
employed. PREMISE 2: Self-defense must correlate with reasonableness. PREMISE 3: Both law and morality must play a role in the e...
that standard then the entire concept of innate knowledge cannot possibly be true. He further argues that those who say...
be a less sure guide than revelation; however, Aquinas did believe it possible to reach certain truths without the aid of revelati...
many of what would have once been (and often still are) considered "barbaric" practices are attributes that may be specifically as...