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human understanding. He saw the concept as being equated with something that exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transce...

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

was that all humans are born with an inherent worth which he labeled human dignity (Mazur, 1993). He further felt that human dign...

speaker is Philo, a religious skeptic (Johnson 266). The discussion is chiefly between Philo and Cleanthes, with occasional remar...

and that is that it enables both freedom and necessity to coexist; it favors an ethical reliance on moral deterrence without brini...

In five pages this paper considers the philosophical views of David Hume and Socrates regarding Ralph Waldo Emerson's observation ...

In six pages this paper discusses evil in the world in a consideration of philosophical perspectives offered in the Bible, Night b...

In ten pages this paper considers these literary and philosophical movements in a discussion of such works as She Stoops to Conque...

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...

there is continuity through time in terms of personal identity and her doubt about her own continuing identity is contradicted by...

and the imagination. However, he states that gaining an idea of self from the presentation given by the senses initially cannot re...

This paper considers the nature of miracles from the philosophical perspectives of David Hume in 5 pages. Four sources are cited ...

In eleven pages this paper defines rationalism and empiricism in a consideration of the philosophical views of Berkeley, Hume, Loc...

In five pages the issue of causality and its nature regarding human existence understanding are examined from the philosophical pe...

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares the philosophical perspectives of Mill and Kant in terms of the similarities and di...

because the baby will stop crying, but killing the baby is wrong. The problem is that the test seems to yield false positives (436...

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

a philosopher, Philo a skeptic and Demea a theologian. Well see if this is correct and analyze one of the arguments. Cleanthes O...

any attempt to model understanding of God on the basis of a study of humanity is simply untenable. What is the soul of man? A mixt...

never having existed at all (Kant). He also points out that we have "nothing before us that could now teach us anything about our ...

have been the fact that the individual has MS or CP or some other disease. Another reason might have been that they simply were no...

As things now stand, much is lacking which prevents men from being, or easily becoming, capable of correctly using their own reaso...

day. There is no reason to speculate that it will not rise tomorrow. Hence, there is a quandary. There is logic that considers sci...

lying promise is ethical, even if it might save the life of a child. Smythe (1998) writes: "As Kant had indicated, we have a duty...

benefit from various government subsidies, it also cheated millions of shareholders using questionable accounting practices design...

the mind" then "no physical thing exists outside the mind" (McGreal 252). Third, primary qualities such as solidity, extension, sh...

Halberstadts involvement with the military didnt end after Vietnam. Indeed, he has moved in and out of the military circle for de...

that the morality of choice is based on the greater good. The saying, "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" arise...

be a less sure guide than revelation; however, Aquinas did believe it possible to reach certain truths without the aid of revelati...

first place and eschewing the monetary aspect so often clouding ones ethical perspective. "Looking back now on all previous attem...