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'Humean' Naturalism and Wittgenstein

neighbors. Such things do happen. When life happens, it is often unique and has little reference to the past. Yet, in examining t...

Hume, Kant, and Descartes' Teleological, Ontological, and Cosmological Arguments and God's Existence Criticisms

Arguments for the Existence of God Rene Descartes (1596-1650) is known as one of the most influential Western philosophers today....

Hume's Skepticism - An Overview

the importance of direct experience in the formulation of knowledge, is at the core of Humes overarching skepticism, which makes a...

Hume's Is-Ought Problem

to change moral systems developed before him with complicity in an illegitimate process of reasoning" (p.6). Essentially, he is as...

Is Cannibalism Ever Justified?

one philosopher might say that it is always wrong to kill other people, or one might may qualify that idea by saying that it is al...

Afghanistan National Development Strategy (ANDS)

Security; Governance Rule of Law & Human Rights; Infrastructure & Natural Resources; Education; Health; Agriculture & Rural Develo...

Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Locke, and Their Personal Property Theories

In five pages this paper examines Rousseau's On the Origin of Inequality and Locke's Two Treatises of Government in a comparative ...

Analyzing The Wages of Wins by David J. Berri

Efficiency, which was similar to Robert Bellottis Points Created model and Dave Heerans TENDEX measurement (The Wins Produced Stor...

Content and Process Based Motivation Theories

relationship (Armstrong, 2009, p320). Process theories place an emphasis on the differences that are found in employees, and inste...

Issues in Asian American Literature

This paper offers ten brief essays, with each essay roughly one-page in length and pertaining to issues that addressed in Asian Am...

Price: “Love and Hate in Jamestown”

had no particular skills (Price). Price notes that Wingfield arrived in Virginia accompanied by a number of servants and a haughty...

Property Rights and the Political Philosophy of John Locke

In order to explore his general theory, it pays to look at his Second Treatise of Civil Government. It is rather compelling and ...

Locke and Rousseau and the Impossibility of Teaching Intelligence

basis of this essay (1995). He maintains the blank state hypothesis, believing that people are born with minds akin to a blank, wh...

Second Treatise on Government by John Locke

he means a state of equality, in which no one person possesses authority over another, and all people are free to live as they ple...

Government's Only Legitimate Form, Human Nature, and Second Treatise on Government by John Locke

of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit, within the bounds of th...

Anti Innate Principle Argument of John Locke

that standard then the entire concept of innate knowledge cannot possibly be true. He further argues that those who say...

Contrasting and Comparing Descartes and Locke

occurred. One of the only things that one can find to argue about Locke is that he eventually becomes as inflexible as the rest o...

The Idea of Dreams from Toni Morrison and Alain Locke

Morrisons novel this rebirth was filled with dreams and possibilities. For Joe and Violet it was a dream of better opportunities. ...

John Proctor and David Merrill: Tragic Heroes

is wildly jealous of Elizabeth (Miller, 2003). Abigail is also the leader of the towns young women, and she and her friends were...

Dominant Paradigms in As Nature Made Him - The Boy Who Was Raised As A Girl by John Colapinto

1960s "introduced the theory that children are not born with a gender identity, but rather form an understanding of gender through...

U.S. Government System and John Locke

of God, nor can they deny the rights of individuals to their separate and distinct beliefs. Locke also argued that man sho...

Evaluating John Adams's Presidency

the lions share of the credit" (Bruns, 2007). McCullough says that Adams had an "astute political mind" as well as being an eloqu...

Education Concepts of John Locke

in fact prompt motivation. Yet, while Lockes ideas seem pertinent in todays world where education seems to be nothing more than di...

Comparison Between the Declaration of Independence and Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

Choosing life, protecting life and so forth is a part of the culture. There are end of life issues that beg for resolution but by ...

Social Contract Theory and John Locke

In five pages this paper examines the views of Jean Jacques Rousseau and Thomas Hobbes in a comparison of their social contract th...

Ethical Relativism in a Critical Eye

are what make us the morally minded creatures we strive to be, although their principles are often overlooked or misconstrued. To...

Morality and Man According to John Locke

In five pages Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding is referenced in a discussion of the philosopher's perspectives rega...

Book Two of Essay on Human Understanding by John Locke

On five pages this report considers Locke's subdivision of human ideas into relations, modes, and substances within the context of...

Economic Contributions of Smith, Ricardo, and Keynes

university in 1751 as a professor of logic. The lectures he gave covered subjects such as ethics and jurisprudence as well as the ...

Absentee Parents in Kaplan and Irving

The phenomenon of absentee parents has increased in relevance in the 21st century. This analysis is a comparison and contrast of L...