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Hume's Ideas about the Distinct and Continued Existence of Objects

it is also the case that in general terms, people seem to believe what they see. They do not see atoms and they do see a solid mas...

Man and Technology: Three Views of Our Future

of sex and love. Harraway explores technology from a feminist perspective, from the perspective of how man and machine can blend ...

Charles Peirce's Account Of Truth And Reality In "How To Make Our Ideas Clear"

perception is that which we, as humans, have been trained to discern as a species, inasmuch as the certain quality of perception r...

Transitions During the Enlightenment Period

secular tone ("The Enlightenment," 2006). The eighteenth century would begin the Age of Reason where there was intellectual discov...

A Fictitious Discussion Between Hobbes and Kant

of his own life; and consequently, of doing anything which, in his own judgement and reason, he shall conceive to be the aptest me...

Aristotle & Hume On Ethics

this sentiment and states that it is good when each individual realizes their talents and abilities to their fullest. Speaking in ...

Dylan Lyrics & Greek Philosophy

the Republic. Take pornography as an example. Plato argued that objectionable ideas can upset the understanding (Johnston). Femini...

Ethics: Utilitarianism

the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation" (Jeremy Bentham, 2006). This simple co...

Anselm, Aquinas, Descartes/Existence of God

conclusion that "a being than which none greater can be conceived can be conceived to be greater than it is," which is "absurd" (A...

Practicality of Existentialism

if coincidences are meaningless activities created by the individual thinker who indeed creates his own universe? It is really dif...

A Review of The Presocratic Reader

Before Socrates, this characteristic was missing, and the addition of it is so striking that it sets Socrates apart from the philo...

Nietzsche And Kierkegaard: Compare/Contrast

- while a religious man himself - strongly believed to reflect mankinds futile passion toward Gods plan and the failure to realize...

Aristotle, Mill and Anakin Skywalker

the same way it does to other phenomena is related to the freedom of the will, a controversy that is still unsettled (Mill, 2003)....

Heidegger & Nihilism

is the ability of human beings to question that is at the foundation of human nature. As this suggests, for Heidegger, Being is th...

The Influence of the Cave Allegory

distance. In some way one can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees ...

Ideas about Peace and War

theories abound, and this idea actually seemingly did spark speculation about other black leaders deaths, it seems that at the ver...

Can Free Will And Determinism Coexist?

life progresses and is, therefore, under the guidance of peripheral forces. Rachel (2004) asserts mankinds business on eart...

FIDES ET RATIO

understanding of truth and communicating the truth of the Gospel to those who do not yet know it" (Pope John Paul II, Introduction...

The Purpose of Life and Personal Fulfillment

didnt have a term equal to "evolution," several of them deduced that things originated in other things; for instance "Thales asser...

Aristotle's Definition of a 'Tragic Hero' and the Deviation of William Shakespeare in His Play Othello

not apply. First, the tragic hero is supposed to be a combination of good and bad traits. Othello is a Moorish commander who has...

'Justice as Fairness' and the Theories of John Rawls

Rawls, these individuals have what he calls "two moral powers" and explains these in the following manner: (1) One such power is t...

Three Dialogues of George Berkeley

that sensible things mean those items or realities that can be perceived by the senses of a human being. Philonous states the foll...

Similarities and Contrasts Between Socrates, Buddha, and Confucius

being proper, of conforming to contemporary uses and customs. These rules extend to practically every aspect of our lives. There...

Thoreau, Pieper, and Plato on What Philosophy Is

when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." And, for 20th century Catholic theologian Josef Pieper (1904-97), Gods role in...

Artistic Similarities Jean Jacques Rousseau and Jacques Louis David

of color to drawing (2002). The economy of statement had been seen to be in line with keeping with the new severity of taste (20...

Ethics From Teleological and Deontological Philosophical Perspectives

taking a life to save two hardly ever arises. How can these outlandish case studies and extreme concepts be applied to administrat...

Intelligence Theories and Philosophy

world, one would find the "ideal tree of which all trees which we see are copies, the ideal house and ideas of all other objects i...

History and Testing Measures of Intelligence Theory

is supplemented by innate elements of the intellect (DeLouth, 2002). This theory keyed into the nature-nurture debate. Skipping ...

A Card Game and Dinner Party with Guests Locke, Sartre, Nietzsche, Descartes, Maimonides, and Averroes

with most of the guests as a large part of his life had been shaped by political factors. When he was...

Beauty, the Sublime, Immanuel Kant, and Edmund Burke

and Kant. While both of these men had many critics, they raised points which even critics contended were worthy of the discussion...