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commandment "thou shalt not kill", for example, are forced to re-examine their views in the light of military service in wartime, ...
human understanding. He saw the concept as being equated with something that exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transce...
(Kemerling, 2002). Lacking professional teacher training, Socrates elected to do some "free-wheeling" by partaking of spirited di...
This is particularly true for Jefferson verses Madison and Hobbes verses Locke. Despite their differences in philosophies, ...
In five pages a case study involving whether or not to have a baby or have an abortion is examined in an application of the theori...
their anxiety in significantly negative ways. Diversity in the type of sport is yet another critical consideration when it comes ...
truly fulfilled, and in fact he likens this fulfillment to a nearly spiritual ideal. On the other hand, there was...
stronger. The authors make no comment on whether any of the individuals were concerned about becoming dependent on their pa...
see the usefulness of your food donation, insofar as eating food will improve his health." And there is still yet another agreeabl...
were distinguished in the nineteenth century with the "natural" sciences. To a great degree, James was attempting to create and/...
acknowledging it as the source from which the mind receives sensory information. However, Kant argued that the mind cannot know th...
Crises arise that usher in change, systems achieve equilibrium for a time and then begin to change again, leading to another round...
the mind" then "no physical thing exists outside the mind" (McGreal 252). Third, primary qualities such as solidity, extension, sh...
in earlier times it was regarded only as the poor relation of quantitative research that nearly always was less reliable and far l...
In the context of a greater philosophy perhaps, a philosopher says what he thinks. Yet, he is unwittingly part of a grand plan. Wh...
of subjective satisfaction (Seifert, 2003). Moral goodness just is. One looks at a baby or a puppy and thinks that these living th...
the effects of "Original Sin" (Hundersmarck 133). While Machiavelli agreed with this stance, he did not do so because of theology....
for existence in which the fittest members of a varying population survive, reproduce, and pass on their traits to the next genera...
In five pages Aristotle's concept of happiness with an emphasis upon a life of contemplation is discussed. Five sources are cited...
dilemma of a single woman who is part of what the politicians and social scientists refer to as a member of the "working poor" soc...
permission. Abraham Lincoln promoted the Platonic view in his Gettysburg Address in saying that the government should be "of the ...
is contrasted with "conservative" or "right-wing" ideologies. Within the broader context of political theory. "liberalism" has a d...
Each criticized the foundationalist approach advocated by Russell. Rorty (1989, 87), for example, insisted:...
and non-rational elements. Of the non-rational, the autonomic responses (breathing, sleeping, digesting, and reproducing) is commo...
modification, which dispels ignorance" (Mohanty, 2001). When we cognize we abate ignorance....
agree with Aristotles ideas, and see morality as a living concept, and something that should not be tampered with. What might Aris...
most fledgling state prior to stamping them from reality. Many theories have been presented to explain Hitlers actions but ...
numerous authors. They include organizing, coordinating, staffing, directing, leading, communicating, decision making and so on (S...
In order to explore his general theory, it pays to look at his Second Treatise of Civil Government. It is rather compelling and ...
reason (Kants Ethics, 2003). In his famous, Critique of Pure Reason, Kant "sought to answer the skepticism of empiricists like Hu...