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derives from the fact that it seems as if it had a familiar or conventional meaning. One might be tempted to try a nonliteral int...

dot.coms are in great part responsible for the changes. These young people shed the suits and adopted street-wise jargon, flauntin...

theme, in fact, throughout the book, as resentments continued to simmer). Peasants, for the most part, pretty much dont know they ...

Most people like an ordered existence. It makes them feel comfortable with the real uncertainty of life. Descartes made "doubt" a ...

tutelage of Peter of Ireland to study logic and natural sciences (Kennedy, 2006; McKerny, 2002). It was there that he first met me...

Dominican Order)," dedicating his life to following his Orders commitment to both scholarship and ministry (Honderich, et al 43). ...

did. He punished Adam and Eve for disobeying Him. As one pastor reminds us: "The Bible says that God will hold us accountable for ...

A devout person will say that he or she "sees" "God in all things" (Hodges 101). This person is referring to an act of "intuitive ...

In fifteen pages Karl Popper's 1934 The Logic of Scientific Theory is examined in terms of the proof and falsification theories de...

In nine pages specific questions are answered regarding Aristotle's position on happiness, virtue, knowledge, and wisdom, and then...

simple to Descartes, so simple it needs no argument. He basically says that as long as one is thinking, one exists. To Descartes, ...

cosmological argument. As mentioned above, an ontological approach uses a deductive argument which "claims that its premises can b...

One of the questions that has plagued theologians, Biblical scholars, philosophers and others has to do with God and evil. How can...

that can render a thought or a concept wrong. One can do a study one day to prove that cholesterol is bad, and then another day, a...

God wills at any particular moment." To this proposition, Nielsen poses three questions: 1. Is being willed by God the, or even a,...

Kant believed that accessing this moral law which was indeed universal consisted of relying on our own instincts, not in the realm...

human nature is bound by the weakness of mans character? In short, Platos (1979) freed prisoner is himself, the cave reflects the...

belief at the time (The Radical Academy, 2004). God gives this power to the people as a whole, not to individuals (The Radical Aca...

In ten pages this tutorial paper imagines a lively dialogue between political philosophers including St. Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle...

This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...

teaching, in which he pretended not to know the answers to questions, so that students would come to understanding on their own. ...

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

Christ. The polytheistic society of ancient Greece was already moving toward belief in a single god by the time of Plato and his ...

virtue, i.e., justice, but it is also included under Aquinas discussion of love, specifically under love of ones neighbor, for Go...

if Charity is "something created in the soul" (Aquinas 17). Without background knowledge on this debate, his points become somewha...

principle being expressed is that everything which causes change, or gives rise to existence, must be the result of some predecess...

also wrote that one could live justly only if they lived in a just society (Beck, n.d.). Plato had a number of caveats about a jus...

and bring the concept back to reality, most people know someone who gets wonderful grades in school, but does not have a lick of c...

we note that it "covers what we can know by Gods special revelation to us (which comes through the Bible and Christian Tradition)....

doubt, people during that time would have recognized. The twelve person circles are led by each St. Thomas, the Franciscan, and St...