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Essays 271 - 300
philosophers and artists, and included figures such as Rousseau, Goethe, Hegel and Kant. One of the major elements of Romanticism ...
considerable empirical consideration but one which has yet to be either proved or refuted. Such as statement, therefore is not a ...
Hence, it is not unexpected that philosophers throughout the ages have also had different thoughts on freedom. While many people,...
of these seemingly paradoxical perspectives on the nature of society and the role of the individual in society. Plato appears to ...
for, but for which there were certainly problems. People too easily give up on it. In his work entitled The History of the Pelopon...
a desire to find out something that is known for sure. It is of course hard to know anything is certain. Some people today questio...
this pint he is, in essence, pleading for his life and states, "I dare say that you may feel irritated at being suddenly awakened ...
In ten pages Hume's life, works, and writings are considered including his Treatise of Human Nature, with an assessment of his inf...
children simply adopt and internalize the standards they are taught by their parents but Kohlberg found that children make moral j...
why so many people had to suffer. No matter the cause, the gods were not looked on with the reverence they had once enjoyed, and t...
Christianity was based upon a vast compilation of both positive and negative influences acquired from the short-sightedness of pow...
namely that similarities between myths count the most, that myth must be interpreted nonliterally and that religions, for the most...
wish, they have other freedoms that are perhaps not as obvious. Brave New World supports the hedonistic view. That is, Huxley (199...
of fire (The New York Times, 2008). He lived during the late fifth century BC (The New York Times, 2008). The Eleatic school for i...
she was younger, she might have chosen a different career, but, today, she is glad that she did not because she experiences a high...
quickly taking over the world, leaving no room for anything else" (Williams, Dustin and McKenney, 2004). In his view, we were leav...
is aligned with the fact that people are alone all of the time because no one can experience what they are experiencing exactly. I...
Aristotles concrete, scientific theories are more relevant than Platos deductive and abstract ideology. Aristotle believed...
academy the first university of its type, he was able to influence minds of the next generation and proliferate his ideas and meth...
It too can visually vary in color. On sunny days it is bright and inviting. When a storm is on the way, however, the color turns...
make rash judgments. Also, there could very well be exceptions to this happiness rule. Why did Aristotle believe that reason is eq...
experiences were possible (Gogan, 2006). This author indicates this in the following: "Kant gets rid of the usual foundation for r...
this one from the Chief Medical Health Officer of Vancouver Island (Canada), relates low income to significant health problems: "....
the Republic. Take pornography as an example. Plato argued that objectionable ideas can upset the understanding (Johnston). Femini...
of sex and love. Harraway explores technology from a feminist perspective, from the perspective of how man and machine can blend ...
perception is that which we, as humans, have been trained to discern as a species, inasmuch as the certain quality of perception r...
secular tone ("The Enlightenment," 2006). The eighteenth century would begin the Age of Reason where there was intellectual discov...
distance. In some way one can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees ...
theories abound, and this idea actually seemingly did spark speculation about other black leaders deaths, it seems that at the ver...
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...