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Philosophy Through the Ages

the goal of his philosophy was to provide "common sense" (Honderich 754). Differing also from Descartes, Reid argued that the mind...

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...

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...

'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. ...

Contemplation and Calmness in Philosophy According to Sebastian de Grazia and Aristotle

who waste time believing or fearing that which is untrue could not possibly be calm or contemplative; as such, they could change t...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Alexis de Tocqueville, Robert Dahl, and Joseph Schumpeter on Democracy

In five pages similarities and simplicity are examined in a comparison of the concepts espoused by this trio of political philosop...

Seeking Answers in the Cosmos with Sir Isaac Newton, Galileo, Tycho Brahe, Copernicus, Ptolemy, and Aristotle

In ten pages this paper examines the lives and astronomical contributions both literally and figuratively speaking as they relate ...

Dennis Bonnette's Origin Of The Human Species

In a paper consisting of seven pages the philosopher Bonnette is compared with Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle in the contention that...

Reality Struggles of Rene Descartes, George Berkeley, and David Hume

even more challenging. He takes dualism to its logical end by insisting that we not only cannot prove that the matter exists, but ...

Thinking and Martin Heidegger

collect itself (1966). As the modern world has been conditioned to this sort of thinking, it has now become problematic to imagin...

Citizenship According to Plato and Aristotle

here, but Platos position that it is necessary to experience a thing in order to have knowledge of it informs the reading of The R...

Locke vs. Descartes on Mind and Body

there is noting upon which the beliefs of an individual may be based and built or expanded upon. Descartes Meditations It is in "...

Concepts Relating to Socrates and Plato

In five pages this paper examines concepts featured in 'Myth of the Cave' and The Apology and also considers 'The Death of Ivan Il...

Lying According to J.S. Mill

that lying is not only necessary in some circumstances, but one may go beyond the few exceptions and see good in the lie. It is ce...

St. Augustine and His Impact

2001). In many ways St. Augustines life would serve as a bridge between pagan Rome and the Christian middle ages (ODonnell, 2001)...

Ideologies of Machiavelli, Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle on Democratic Rule

of the United States. Without the philosophies of those that lived in the centuries prior to the U.S. Declaration of Independence...

Marx, Machiavelli, and Hobbes

that man must first display characteristics that are shaped by his own masculine perspective. Machiavelli considered the nature o...

Corporal Punishment and its Impact

comments made for and against the use of spanking. Definition Corporal Punishment Corporal punishment is "the intentional inflic...

Democratic Rule According to Niccolo Machiavelli, Aristotle, and Plato

influential thinkers of the ancient age. Despite their obvious inter-related lives, they still had significantly differing opinio...

Christianity and Friedrich Nietzsche

values rapid change and constant novelty, Zaras speed and clever marketing of scarcity were highly effective. Recruitm...

Mad Love by Andre Breton

Mad Love, Breton attempts to accomplish the impossible - to textually recreate the basic emotions of passion and desire, which mov...

Justo L. Gonzalez and Soren Kierkegaard Compared

his or her own singular importance. "The ethical is the universal, and as such it is again the divine. One has therefore a right ...