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(Amin, 1997; p. 8). In many ways we experience, and have experienced, growth of cultures through diversity, which provides us ...
being" (Burnham, 2001). In order for our universe to have taken on the form that it has, it has been necessary, according t...
past times are given (or as he put it more cautiously, "presupposed") in the present time. It is possible, according to Kant, tha...
one looks at a variety of lifetimes via reincarnation, its purpose explained by knowledge. In other words, people are born and liv...
in his infamous work On Liberty, he relays that idea. Joplins idea is quite a philosophical, intangible view of freedom as it sug...
public opinion than when in opposition to it" (Mill 76). When assessing the notion of progress and how it related to Mills...
the universe, in which human beings are pictured a being at the top of the pyramid to one that sees life as an expanding circle th...
What comes out of a courtroom is not necessarily truth, but which side argues best. The Sophists prided themselves on the use of p...
first of all, wherever friendship or community flourishes, justice doesnt - and when this fades, justice becomes more important. S...
humans should be moral we often think of the works of those major philosophers who adamantly supported morality. We look to great...
2002) . Rene Descartes on the other hand delved into the idea of immediate conscious thinking (2002). Locke viewed identity as be...
Introduction The issues surrounding abortion are complex to say the least. People are polarized on the issue...
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...
for social control and the exercise of power, on the other. All government, indeed, all institutions of society, exist along this ...
the time, today people are faced with decisions and can decide to be honest or face dire consequences. Journalists today sometimes...
conditions and development; contrarily, humanity may also perceive the world as a more direct understanding based upon their spiri...
childhood, during his early life, Socrates was a sculptor, following in the footsteps of his father, Sophroniscus (Wikpedia, 2003)...
well as] hard physical work and unhealthy lifestyle" and most donors are sent home after only five days (Tomiuc, 2003). While the ...
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...
must recognize that the consciousness (cit) is a separate phenomena which is present regardless of the presence or absence of stim...
avoids trying to force the same concept of right and wrong upon all of the worlds societies, objectivism believes there is conside...
Essentially, the allegory likens those who remain unaware of forms to prisoners chained in a cave, and they cannot turn their head...
what Descartes believed to be the existence of humanity and humanitys understanding of what knowledge truly is. In a comparison of...
Sisyphus himself perceives his condition....
not just, but rapacious (1998). It is instead a theater of adaptive and predatory deception (1998). One can clearly see that Thras...
Barbour, time is merely an illusion (Anonymous, 2000). In his ruminations on time, Augustine contemplates the subjectivity of tim...
In six pages this research paper contrasts and compares these men's philosophical perspectives on God's existence. Four sources a...
In five pages this paper examines Kant's philosophical considerations of religion from a moral perspective. Five sources are cite...
governmental structures on both sides of the Iron Curtain, believed that the downfall of communism was inevitable. Consider, for ...
This paper discusses the societal impacts of homosexuality according to the philosophical perspectives of John Stuart Mill and Imm...