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world, few governments would allow either situation to exist. Yet, it would be troubling for anyone to be completely dominated by ...

political ends, one should do so through peace and peaceful activism, and not through violence. There were many other philosophica...

is good (Frost 84). For Socrates, "a life which is always inquiring and trying to discover what is good is the best kind of life, ...

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...

He and a group of utilitarians formed a small Utilitarian Society based on many of the writings of Bentham. His many works appeare...

lie to the police, and fabricate "evidence," in order to protect her daughter from possible harm? Or, should she allow her daughte...

have anticipated the degradation that would take place toward the trees, grass and animals, all of whom are just as integral to th...

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

strive for bigger and better opportunities, to reach beyond what has become comfortable and consistent in order to attain that whi...

being" (Burnham, 2001). In order for our universe to have taken on the form that it has, it has been necessary, according t...

does not love and who is better than twenty years older than her. Then, his son goes into the future son-in-laws bank and manages ...

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

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

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

Brian Vickers portrays Plato as an intellectual Odysseus, stealthily stealing the rhetorical arsenal of the sophists and using it ...

expected to develop some form of cancer "or another rapidly debilitating condition and well be dead within a year of getting the d...

culpable. It is true that many other nations, such as France, opposed the war effort in Iraq. Did the U.S. overstep its bounds? Wh...

the role it plays, in the cognitive system of which it is a part (Levin, 2004). Functionalism is an opinion about the nature of m...

She says: "The question should not be: Do we have something in common-reason, self-consciousness, a soul-with other animals? (With...

was that all humans are born with an inherent worth which he labeled human dignity (Mazur, 1993). He further felt that human dign...

steeled and a heart trans- formed into brass, so as to bear the weight of such responsibility" (Nietzsche, p.129). One can see tha...

human understanding. He saw the concept as being equated with something that exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transce...

body but the are not only of the body ("Rene," 2005). The mind controls these things. Mind also cannot be "thought without it thin...

When Hamlet returns home, he is greeted with what he is convinced is his fathers ghost. After identifying himself, the ghost prom...

(Kemerling, 2002). Lacking professional teacher training, Socrates elected to do some "free-wheeling" by partaking of spirited di...

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and Cavaliers differ somewhat from those that are associated with Europe. What we most often remember in America is the differenc...

one looks at a variety of lifetimes via reincarnation, its purpose explained by knowledge. In other words, people are born and liv...

tendencies within society and the fact that people are far too concerned with their own well being to fend for those who cannot fe...

Many contend that while God is all good, man has free will and brings the suffering on himself. At the same time, animals cannot r...