YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Knowledge as Conceptualized by Philosophers
Essays 601 - 630
is less important than the conversation which takes place, and since the two individuals are from periods in Greek history several...
to immigration reform, attacking affirmative action programs, welfare reform and tort reform (1996). Joshua Murachik, quoting Eliz...
they could, through their will, cause their actions to become universal law. Kant held that only those things that have bee...
of society. However, Hobbes is also making the assumption that human beings will able to ascertain what is the correct way of doin...
or of material things. Berkeleys philosophical stance of immaterialism or idealism simply denied the existence of matter all toge...
enjoyment of what is good, not in the pride that he alone is enjoying it, to the exclusion of others. He who thinks himself more ...
positive reinforcement, for the happiest people are also those who are feeling well and living prosperous lives. These are not me...
would soon desire to take the car everywhere instead of walking, maintaining his own bodys requirements. Mans pursuit of the dolla...
(Locke: The Origin of Ideas, 2003). Locke, unlike many of his peers, denied that certain knowledge was innate for human...
They are, instead, robot-like in that they do what they are told and do not question the validity of the teachings. Instead, peopl...
too saw that the people needed leadership. The general public was thought not quite capable of making the big decisions. While Mac...
doing whatever one wants, with no regard to law (Krause, 2000). If independence must be sacrificed in order to achieve political ...
is that these constructors of the new society are completely ignorant of their own racial, social and economic position within th...
top the list. The Catholic Church is often quoted as having said, "Give me a child until he is seven and he will always be Catholi...
In twelve pages the life of political philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli and his important works are analyzed. Four sources are cite...
However, Allen also makes the point that Platos attitude was at least partially due to his respect and fear of the powers of art o...
thing" sets the stage for each of his subsequent steps. In Step 2 he delineates his completeness into one of its two parts, the b...
to the first two in that people have some former knowledge in order to "know" someone, or "know" how to do something (Hospers, 196...
Virtuous action was defined by Aristotle as what a person with practical wisdom would choose. The golden mean, as defined by Ari...
the war has a specific goal in mind. NON-CHRISTIAN VIEWPOINT The problem, the non-Christian would say, is that these rules are ei...
that requires the transmission or transposition of the parts of those beings (1998). However, substances are simple unextended ent...
upon them. For Egan, the teachers role is to allow the students to learn through abstract thought, previously thought too cognitiv...
our understanding of language, democracy, the individual (self), within both the public and private spheres. Rorty notes, for exa...
Each criticized the foundationalist approach advocated by Russell. Rorty (1989, 87), for example, insisted:...
idea of self is more genuine and original, unique in its conception. Also, at the very foundation of this philosophy is that there...
basically a war between Athens and Sparta (Thucydides, 1881). This came about as a result of the growth of the Athenian Empire, a...
also saw mind and body as two separate substance. The Descartes position on the mind-body problem combines the idea of substance d...
of itself, is not the end of the line in relation to the state of religious toleration, inasmuch as its very definition is that of...
are told, when will others in the same position known if they are being told the truth, or will they assume the worse, harming hum...
contrary, that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning." Albert Camus in The Myth of Sisyphus. * Life is a tragedy fo...