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Skepticism and Descartes' Cogito

questions that are not answered by the phrase "I think. Therefore I am." What if one does not think? Does that prove that he or sh...

Radical Aspects of the Scientific Revolution

the sun around which our planet revolved, not the sun around the earth as was held by the Church (Meeks, 1997). This assertion al...

Critical Thinking, Elementary Grades, and Music Education

the research linking music instruction with developing higher-order reasoning skills is still controversial. Therefore, there is a...

Consideration of Medical Negligence

In ten pages medical negligence is considered with such cases as 1957's Bolam v. Friern HMC and 1997's Bolitho v. Hackney HA refer...

Humanism, Structuralism, and the Individual

to language. For example, there would not be the idea of darkness without an understanding of what it means to have light. Therefo...

Socrates' Thoughts and Influence

Socrates frequently alluded was the basis for his debates with Gorgias, contending that the degree of abstraction pursued by thoug...

Patient Choice and Medical Negligence

mechanism it can be expected that this shift in the accountability and transparency needs to be indicates within case law. It can...

Rationalism and Empiricism

"empiricists claim that nothing is in the mind that did not come through the senses." Such a claim would suggest that people are l...

An Analysis of The Long Discourses Of The Buddha: A Translation Of The Digha Nikaya

& of themselves... the mind in & of itself... mental qualities in & of themselves -- ardent, alert, & mindful -- putting aside gre...

Use of a Journal to Teach Business Ethics

of ethical behaviour. The problem with ethics in business can be seen in the way that there is a conflict between the ideals of e...

Comparing Friedman and Plato's Economic Ideas

illustrates his stance which is that people, even if they are lacking, do not have the right to coerce the wealthy. Thus, if someo...

Schools of Thought Regarding Strategic Planning

achieving the proper fit between the internal strengths and weaknesses and the external opportunities and threats (Mintzberg and L...

Comparison of Gestalt and Behaviorism

(1969 as Overskeid, 1995) states: "Behavior which is exclusively shaped by ... contingencies is perhaps the closest one can come t...

H.G. Wells' 'Time Machine' and Adolf Hitler's Thoughts

feat of time travel, for example, through the wonders of modern science. After years of meticulous work he has managed to create ...

Nursing and Critical Thinking

should be emphasized that some nurses see their function in a more spiritual manner. They take their role as a calling to help tho...

Assessing Logic in an Appendix

a quite reasonable approach to making the bidding process effective. The entire bid process already is time-consuming, delaying t...

Connection Between Making Decisions and Critical Thinking

looks upon his world as a direct reflection of him, his values, beliefs, experiences, conditions and development; contrarily, huma...

Cognitive Process of Writing

indeed a psychology that will greatly fail in understanding the human mind as it relates to writing. It is therefore critically i...

Bilingual and Cultural Education Related to Critical Theory

the collective and tries to provide an understanding of how current social conditions have come about them, and how they interact ...

Thinking Processes, Soft and Hard Systems, and Making Decisions

is done another will occur, as well as the attitude of the decision maker (Simon, 1947). The understanding of decisions making has...

Sex and Love

With this particular writer, any love will not do. Only a true, honest, and noble connection is worth the effort and then only if ...

Cogito and Rene Descartes

he (and humans in general) is(are) a complete entity, a "cogito" or "thinking thing" (as he clarifies in step 1), that entity is c...

'First Follow Nature and 'An Essay on Criticism' by Alexander Pope

writes in lines 11 through 14: "In Poets as true Genius is but rare, / True Taste as seldom is the Critics share; / Both must alik...

Gulf War, U.S., Iraq, and a Contrast of Ideologies

of the group. Functionalists believe that every state has the universal right to provide those elements which will strike a balanc...

William Shakespeare's Hamlet and Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Wife of Bath' from Canterbury Tales

the witch may well have been incredibly deceptive and conniving in her involvement with the knight, and in this we can see the pre...

Organizational Design, Management Knowledge, and the Contributions of Contingency Thinking

the ability to consider the way things may be different and then to look at the way this will impact on the company and then solve...

Application of Montessori Mathematics to Children Between the Ages of Three and Six

children, materials such as colored rods and beads (Kahn, nd; University of Kansas, 2000). Among other things, young children can ...

'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorn and Puritan Thought

culture and education along with the setting of his hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, is a common topic in Nathaniel Hawthornes wo...

Perception, Language, Cognition and Consciousness in Classic Indian Philosophy

modification, which dispels ignorance" (Mohanty, 2001). When we cognize we abate ignorance....

Pharmaceutical Industry and European Think Tanks

care issues will explore the relationship between European think tanks and the multinational pharmaceutical companies, specificall...