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Essays 301 - 330

Siddhartha and Descartes

and space-- the factual historical figure and the imaginary Eastern mystic. Descartes criticism of Siddhartha One can imagine t...

Debates During the Eighteenth Century Age of Enlightenment

with the fall of man and the origin of sin was metaphorical rather than literal. Not surprisingly, such thinking was considered b...

Armstrong's Argument Compared with Descartes' Metaphysics

This research report looks at the ideas of both of these theorists. Armstrong's opposition to Descartes' ideas is duly noted. Thi...

Philosophy as the Practice of Death by Plato as Evaluated by Descartes

This research report looks at how Descartes would feel about Plato's ideas. Would he agree with Plato in his ideas about death? Th...

Economism and Marxism's Vulnerability

own economic well being as their primary goal. Political reform unrelated to this goal should not be their concern. By loo...

Views of Wollstonecraft and Austen

treatment of women. Her novel, Sense and Sensibility considers the social position of the early nineteenth-century woman, and thr...

Gulf States' Soccer League Planning

countries, which is also a motivation for the undertaking of such a project. The second aspect is then how this can be planned and...

Education Future and IDEA

revolutionary. And since IDEA would come to fruition, there would be changes in the act. It seems as if there is never enough in t...

Theoretical Approaches to Capitalism and Power

The ideas of three theorists are explored in this 3 part paper. The first part of the paper explores the rise of capitalism, and ...

Columbus, More and Renaissance Thought

writing, Columbus vacillates between viewing the American natives as subjects of either the Chinese or Japanese emperors, as he th...

Legacy of Conquest/The American West

the conquest era continue to shape current realities. Limericks text shows that the history of the American West is rooted primari...

Iron Giant Cartoon, Humanity, Personal Choices, and the Philosophies of David Hume, William Blake, and John Locke

giant metal man falling into the sea. Hogarth is the only one that believes him and rushes away to search in likely places for the...

The Extent to Which Assumptions are Used in the Decision Making Process

wet because a toddler had an "accident" or there is blood everywhere because someone was murdered. Clearly, the bed might have bee...

Cartesian Rationalism from a Critical Viewpoint

experience, will readily be admitted with regard to such objects, as we remember to have once been altogether unknown to us..." (A...

Carl L. Becker's Rejection of Popular Eighteenth-Century Philosophers

the chance to break free from such constraints. The global society was ready for a tremendous change in direction following the t...

A Philosophical Look at Animal Testing

if cats and dogs and other animals are pets and viewed as members of the family, how can people experiment on them and then put th...

What Does Empiricism Teach About The Relationship Between Appearance And Reality?

awareness of the moment at hand and draws attention to the fleeting nature of existence that unifies all things. "The ideas of Se...

The Problem with Trope Theory

one could say that what if one collects a number of red apples, but they are all different kinds. There are Macintosh, red Delicio...

Knowledge and the Views of the Empiricists and the Rationalists

In eleven pages this paper defines rationalism and empiricism in a consideration of the philosophical views of Berkeley, Hume, Loc...

Literature and Philosophical Themes

education is still substantially elevated in contemporary culture. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees virtue as choice and so mora...

Philosophical Concepts

of the most important philosophers when talking about knowledge and where it comes from. His explanation suggests that there is a ...

History, Human Nature, and Psychology

the other; and, the law of contrast which is opposite the law of similarity where one thing or event may trigger or associate itse...

Philosophical Argument on Morally Justifiable Violence and Political Oppression

In five pages Hume, Kant, Cicero, and Plato are discussing how when responding to political oppression violence can be morally jus...

Philosophers Compared

if it is taken outside of the context of societal situations. For Nozick, justice is more clearly a function of societal roles a...

Man's Soul and God Contemplated in Philosophy Essays

In three pages philosophers Hume, Descartes, and Aristotle are applied to the concepts of man's nature, the existence of God, and ...

Eternal Happiness and God

In ten pages free will and God are analyzed in this philosophical essay with a critical examination of theories by Hume, Kierkegaa...

God's Existence 'First Cause' Argument Invalidation

In nine pages this paper presents the 'First Cause' concept and analytically proves it to be invalid with references made to the t...

Philosophers Compared and Contrasted

The problem which arose was that if the mind generates all perception, then is our understanding of something "real", meaning of t...

Case Study Analysis and the Philosophies of John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant

In five pages a case study involving whether or not to have a baby or have an abortion is examined in an application of the theori...

Philosophy Defined

In ten pages this paper examines what philosophy represents as considered in Philosophy The Quest For Truth by Louis R. Pojman a...