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

that his troops have to face, but also the strengths and weaknesses of subordinates, in order to deploy commanders in the most str...

that he was "in haste" to buy it before the owner finished making any more "improvements," i.e. changes that Thoreau implies he hi...

powerful. He presents this attempt through offering many different examinations, talking about the shogun political structure, an...

acknowledging it as the source from which the mind receives sensory information. However, Kant argued that the mind cannot know th...

assented to three kinds of knowledge: intuitive, demonstrative, and sensitive and all are based upon the concept of "ideas" (Kenyo...

but rather simple happiness. But, he was a man of vision and determination as well. He was an excellent lawyer and began to make a...

446). Since it has only been around fifteen years since the land was cleared, Thoreau judges that the soil should still be rich, s...

This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...

has returned home for a visit with his mother and to reintroduce her to his lover, Wayne, who joins him at his childhood home. Nei...

about how she believes that hatred against black people in the country to some extent played a role in the death of her son (1999,...

informal close relationships between school and community becoming more like a factory than like the school it once was. It was be...

More specifically, Hume argued that cause is the idea that one event makes another event inevitable and/or necessary (The Philosop...

David Ives "All in the Timing" is a series of one act plays which tell the story of different situations all with a comical and...

structures, art, sculpture, glass works, decorative pieces and illuminated composition from the twelfth through the sixteenth cent...

to be called "transcendentalism" (5). The individuals who wrote about this faculty referred to it by different names -- e.g., "sp...

started to fall out of favour, and the fall of this from popualrity is claimed by Charles Jenks to have marked the end of the mode...

turned off or the car repossessed, they might feel at least they are better off than this semi-famous actor/comedian. Sinbad is ...

true of actions as well as other events, not in order to argue that determinism is compatible with actions being freely performed ...

event has a cause; and, second, an immortal soul exists distinct from the body. Therefore, freedom of the human will serves as an ...

people in the same manner, with confidence, sarcasm, and wit. In the scene under discussion we see "the pink one" asking Psmith, "...

going to equal seven. He states in his Mediations on First Philosophy: "SEVERAL years have now elapsed since I first became awar...

while, the duplicity of each of these dichotomies becomes apparent. In fact the first direct comparison would be that of Gallimard...

in the goodness of man and the mans natural state is in nature and is burdened by civilization (Campbell). The doctrine of sensibi...

of having been there. This autobiography is at once fascinating and unbelievable, torturous and sometimes funny; but underneath i...

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

In Part I of David Harveys The Condition of Postmodernity - "The Passage From Modernity To Postmodernity In Contemporary Culture" ...

points which are "1) God is defined as the being in which none greater is possible; 2) It is true that the notion of God exists i...

new person. This has been tradition since Gilgamesh. The hero emerges from the wilderness to contribute to society and carry out...

producers and directors have found that they have a truly unique power to significantly influence the attitudes and emotions of th...