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himself, without mischief reaching at least to his near connexions, and often far beyond them"(Mills,9). John Stuart Mill seemed ...

to attain a better existence for itself, it has inadvertently caused a domino effect when it comes to such personal pursuits. It ...

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...

(Amin, 1997; p. 8). In many ways we experience, and have experienced, growth of cultures through diversity, which provides us ...

2002, p.PG). The author explains that the things Occidentalists hate about the West are not just the ones that inspire hatred ; so...

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

In five pages such concepts as dialectic method, proletariat and bourgeois, and production's relations and means are discussed wit...

of subjective satisfaction (Seifert, 2003). Moral goodness just is. One looks at a baby or a puppy and thinks that these living th...

is a case for communism at least for the lower classes. The supporting premises for that conclusion have already been noted and ge...

with happiness, but the instant gratification achieved through immoral pleasure is not as good. It goes beyond that. Does one give...

considerable empirical consideration but one which has yet to be either proved or refuted. Such as statement, therefore is not a ...

what the concept of rights truly meant to the populace as a whole, with his general consensus reflecting the respect for and appre...

Republic, 2002). Therefore, according to this theory, knowledge of anything and understanding of anything comes from examination ...

In five pages society's incorporation of religion is discussed in terms of several philosophical views that include mainstream rel...

the text should fit the music, not the other way around. His opera, La Nozza de Figaro, while following the parameters of the comi...

not for ones performance, but for his or her actions which may be attributable to a sense of duty (Honderich 323). To some, this m...

This is found in Descartes work Meditations and is referred to as substance dualism, which is also known as Cartesian interactioni...

horrible situations such as one that would deem them a "vegetable" do have some thinking capacity perhaps. Yet, is a disembodied m...

What comes out of a courtroom is not necessarily truth, but which side argues best. The Sophists prided themselves on the use of p...

is real? Again, the Cartesian Cogito is something that resolves the problem for some. Still, this is a problem that many philosoph...

ideas. As we shall soon see, through these speeches Plato seems to have reasoned out how it is that mankind make their way from th...

one may see it as quasi-scientific determinism. Yet, from a Western point of view, Buddhism is considered to be indeterministic (A...

Crises arise that usher in change, systems achieve equilibrium for a time and then begin to change again, leading to another round...

Even in the absence of hard and fast codes of ethics such as those that exist for some professions, there are certain basic guidel...

book by Scott Soames; he asks what 20th century analytic philosophy comes to, and reveals that "Soames thinks its two most importa...

the Buddhist worldview and the goal of detaching oneself from the material world and the body. "Thought is an attribute that rea...

the morality Aristotle speaks of is relative. While it is not relative from one individual to another perhaps, and there is certai...

the most important fact for the student to understand is what Fromm explains in the following section of Marxs Concept of Man (196...

of human thinking and an awareness of what constitutes the basics of human nature. Their lessons and attitudes are still relevant ...

In six pages this paper examines Socrates concept of love, then compares it with the contemporary interpretation before being inte...