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Essays 601 - 630
In five pages this report examines whether or not the world would be a better place if people followed Socrates' philosophical exa...
This paper consists of eight pages and considers the injustice of the trial Socrates received in an attempt to determine whether o...
In five pages this paper discusses Berkeley's notion that beyond perception nothing exists. There is 1 source listed in the bibli...
if it is taken outside of the context of societal situations. For Nozick, justice is more clearly a function of societal roles a...
the context of a modern society. Certainly, today Maimonides instruction to beat wives who neglect their wifely "duties" would not...
hearts of those he represented. It was Strauss ongoing quest to delve into the deepest recesses of German intellectuals and polit...
universe as heartily to assent to the evil that seems inherent in its details?" (Thought & Character, Volume I, Perry, 322) (Shull...
In six pages this paper contrasts and compares the perspectives of these ancient Chinese philosophers on ethical behavior. Six so...
In eight pages justice and fairness as conceptualized by philosopher and theorist John Rawls are examined with the emphasis being ...
In four pages this paper examines how Plato and Socrates were philosophically viewed by Nietzsche. Two sources are cited in the b...
This paper examines the writings and life of Wollstonecraft. The author discusses her philosophical treatise, A Vindication of th...
In eight pages O'Gorman's impact upon the thought of Latin America is examined. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....
all, but rather only the world (Burnet ch2bii). Modern terminology used by those sharing Xenophanes views would be that there lik...
he did not know the true cause of an action he would readily admit to not knowing. This should not be mistaken however for a will...
In ten pages this paper examines William James' works as they pertain to life and ethics with suffering among the topics discussed...
spiritual enlightenment. The central message of Buddhism is that all creatures, one of great intelligence, and even those that w...
the protagonists "descent into madness and misanthropy" (Stallcup 87). As Stallcup observes, this is "hardly a likely candidate fo...
and ice creams sold in the summer, this looks at the trends rather than just the past performance. Regression analysis takes th...
to combine rational and irrational, and accept it in ones life (Epictetus, 2004). Throughout his first published book Discourses, ...
audience" (66). The reversal refers to a reversal in fortune, which Aristotle believed was classically represented in a fall from...
and Aristotle are philosophers who discuss virtue. Yet, Yu (1998) claims that when it comes to virtue, neither Aristotle or Confu...
compels one to draw all attention to this one object - to the preclusion of all else, which is most often intrinsically associated...
theories of evaluating this today, such as the Big Bang. That is, there may be a world that has come about, and a cause, but the c...
Descartes, of course, is remembered as the "father of modern philosophy". A rationalist, Descartes was particularly concerned wit...
equality reversed and he no longer supported the cause of "economic and moral independence" for women in his later years, but rath...
life progresses and is, therefore, under the guidance of peripheral forces. Rachel (2004) asserts mankinds business on eart...
didnt have a term equal to "evolution," several of them deduced that things originated in other things; for instance "Thales asser...
- while a religious man himself - strongly believed to reflect mankinds futile passion toward Gods plan and the failure to realize...
the same way it does to other phenomena is related to the freedom of the will, a controversy that is still unsettled (Mill, 2003)....
the fact that "The Buddhists consider the world to be full of sorrow and regard ending the sorrow as the chief aim of human life" ...