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Knowledge as Conceptualized by Philosophers

it comes to knowledge leads one to believe that people are much more likely to act out in such a manner that is motivated only by ...

Immanuel Kant on the World's Purpose

beautiful. However, how can one make such judgments without purpose? Why is something wrong? If there is no purpose to life no one...

Different Knowledge Types

the role of the human mind in knowledge acquisition. They believe that information can be acquired both inductively and deductive...

Rationalism and the Concepts of Rene Descartes and David Hume

In eight pages this paper examines these philosophers' views regarding knowledge in a consideration of experience and reason with ...

Meditations on the First Philosophy by Rene Descartes and 'Freeing the Mind'

In five pages this paper examines the French philosopher's text as it explains his approaches to recognizing knowledge that is 'tr...

Concepts of Julien Offray de La Mettrie and Immanuel Kant

de La Mettrie - Mental Activity In "Man a Machine" (1748), de La Mettrie says: "Let us start out then to discover not...

Book 4 of Plato's Republic, 'Justice of the City'

what it is that you "can do," and then doing that for the good of the group - in this case the city. The unification of the virtu...

Knowledge Management

Management In the past it may be argued that knowledge management was a potential source of competitive advantage, but i...

Utopia Concept from One Writer's Point of View

In five pages utopia is described as conceptualized by one person. There are no sources cited....

Freedom Concept and Martin Heidegger

In five pages this paper examines freedom and its contradictions as conceptualized by German philosopher Martin Heidegger. Four s...

Good Marriage According to J.S. Mill

In five pages this paper examines The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill in order to determine how the philosopher conceptual...

Law and Ritual Concepts According to Han Fei, Mencius, and Confucius

The ways in which laws and rituals are interrelated are considered in six pages through an examination of human nature as conceptu...

Philosophers on Morality

In six pages this paper examines morality as represented by utilitarianism and as conceptualized by philosophers including Carol G...

Justice According to John Rawls and Plato

In seven pages justice as conceptualized by philosophers John Rawls and Plato is contrasted and compared. Six sources are cited i...

Justice Concept of Young Challenging the Views of David Hume, Thomas Aquinas, and Aristotle

men for the society in which they develop. Youngs concepts of justice and mans role in society appear to challenge those prese...

Original Position of Philosopher John Rawls

In eight pages justice and fairness as conceptualized by philosopher and theorist John Rawls are examined with the emphasis being ...

Fantasy Space of Michel Foucault, Walt Disney and MGM Studios

at least the observance of it. At MGM Studios and Walt Disney World, human submission to discipline and punishment is complete, th...

Good and Evil According to Philosophers William James, Friedrich Nietzsche, St. Augustine of Hippo, and Aristotle

In six pages this paper discusses the modern and classical concepts of good and evil as conceptualized by these philosophers. Fiv...

Concept of the Social Contract According to Thomas Hobbes and John Locke

In six pages Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes and Second Treatise of Civil Government by John Locke are discussed in an examination of h...

Justice, Morality, and the Soul According to Plato

In twelve pages Plato's dialogues The Republic, Phaedrus, and Gorgias are examined in an analysis of how the philosopher conceptua...

Thinking and Martin Heidegger

collect itself (1966). As the modern world has been conditioned to this sort of thinking, it has now become problematic to imagin...

Beauty and Love According to Socrates as Represented in Symposium by Plato

In four pages this paper examines how beauty and love were conceptualized by Socrates as portrayed in Symposium by Plato through i...

Knowledge and the Philosophies of Immanuel Kant, David Hume, Baruch Spinoza, and Rene Descartes

In six pages this paper examines how knowledge theories are philosophically conceptualized by Kant, Hume, Spinoza, and Descartes. ...

Can Knowledge Give a Company a Competitive Edge?

gained from experience as well as the collection of information, the experience may be the companies own experience, or that of ot...

Knowledge Management at Molnlycke Health Care

can be used by the company and its employees. Molnlycke Health Care, established in 1998 as the result of a merger between the c...

'Justice as Fairness' and John Rawls

fairness and justice (Rawls, 1958). Many of Rawls philosophies are reflective of those of other great thinkers who preced...

Philosophers Missing the Point

the manner by which one point can be (mis)interpreted in at least two different ways is attempting to successfully isolate a singl...

Greek Philosophers and Myth v. Knowledge

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...

Saul Kripke's Philosophical Propositions

In five pages this paper examines the connections with 'a posteriori' and 'a priori' knowledge, contingent truth and necessary tru...

Knowledge According to Socrates and Descartes

This research report looks at how knowledge is acquired according to these two theorists. A great deal of information is contained...